What is your cheap (free) way to (better) organize (spare) nuts (by size)?
When I was a kid, I labeled each set of nuts by tying a wire through the middle and tagging the end of the wire.
Then when I had more money, I bought complete sets including the cases and drawers of assorted sized nuts (and bolts). In addition, I would buy a pack of 5, 10, or 50, whenever I needed a handful of them.
Now? Decades later, I have a huge jumble of nuts in plastic Costco mixed-nuts jars (fittingly) all jumbled up.
What I'd like to do is simply organize the nuts by size so I don't have to pick through them every time I need just one nut to fit, but I'm done with the organized kits (which I can buy at any time).
I'm thinking of drilling holes in a block of wood and screwing in a dozen or so commonly sized 6 inch bolts, and then just threading the spare nuts on the upended bolts.
Before I begin, I just wanted to ask for better ideas, and, if you have implemented the idea I just listed of screwing the nuts onto upstanding bolts, what is the common set of bolts you'd suggest?