those things you keep, just cause, and then eventually use

[film495]

new pistol old target stand. was my Dad's stand. sat in my garage since 2017 and who knows how many years in his garage until this range trip. the stand I was using is missing a piece and well, this one was right there looking at me.

 

[Walkalong]

Oh yea, stuff you might use some day? Me too.

 

[JTHunter]

Lumber, rebar, copper pipe/wire, etc. Just because "ya never know".

 

[Hillbilly Hydrographics]

If it wasnt for the cans full of odd nuts, bolts,screws and other fastners i dont think i would ever be able to fix anything. Old appliances, vehicles, lumber you name it everything might get repurposed eventually. Id certainly hate to throw all my junk i mean treasures away cause then i would need a part or piece.

 

[doubleh]

My problem now is remembering what I have sitting around for future use. I regularly find after buying material for a project that days later I will find exactly what I need languishing in my saved for later use stuff.

 

[syntaxerrorsix]

Glass jars full of miscellaneous screws, drywall anchors, nuts and bolts. Kydex, metal, leather and lumber scraps.

 

[The Night Rider]

I haven't worked as a machinist in 15 years. There's $10,000 Gathering dust in that box which sits in the corner of my store room.

 

[theotherwaldo]

The term is 'BIMNIL' - But I Might Need It Later... .

 

[.308 Norma]

My problem now is remembering what I have sitting around for future use. I regularly find after buying material for a project that days later I will find exactly what I need languishing in my saved for later use stuff.

You too??? I thought I was the only one that did that!

 

[Dave DeLaurant]

Last month I tore out and replaced a cabinet my dad made for my bathroom some 50 years earlier. I salvaged about half of the plywood from it, and on Thursday I trimmed and reused a piece of the thickest stuff to mount my 'new' Hollywood single stage press.



At last count I own nine Mauser 98s in various milsurp and sporting guises. Last Saturday after I'd spent a few minutes polishing a magazine floorplate catch, it slipped out from under my finger as I was reinstalling it and shot across my bench, straight into the Twilight Zone. After wasting an hour looking for it, I replaced it with another one from my Mauser spares box. I pick up Mauser spares where and whenever the occasion arises, and usually have 3 or 4 of all the most commonly lost or broken parts on-hand. Some have sat in that box for three decades.

 

[12Bravo20]

My problem now is remembering what I have sitting around for future use. I regularly find after buying material for a project that days later I will find exactly what I need languishing in my saved for later use stuff.

I know all too well how that is

I haven't worked as a machinist in 15 years. There's $10,000 Gathering dust in that box which sits in the corner of my store room.

I still have all of my machinist tools too. I periodically clean and oil the precision measuring tools that are in my big box out in the garage and the rest are kept inside since I use them for reloading and working of guns. I retired early in 2005 due to my health. I held journeyman status as a machinist, tool and die maker, and millwright. I also worked as an industrial maintenance machinist too.

 

[Mr. Mosin]

If it wasn’t for all the miscellaneous… stuff that my grandfather, father, and myself had “socked away” over 70yrs of living in the same place; we wouldn’t ever accomplish anything.

 

[Chuck R.]

That was one of the benefits of being active duty military.. PCSing every couple of years and the clean-up prior to the packers/movers coming. An awful lot of stuff I might have gotten around to moved on.

 

[DustyRusty]

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I haven't worked as a machinist in 15 years. There's $10,000 Gathering dust in that box which sits in the corner of my store room.

Nice chest of tools Night Rider. I have a lot of garage sale & pawn shop machinists tools I've picked up over the years. I enjoy rebirthing them.
Don't forget to take all the tools out, inspect & wipe down each tool and repeat in one year.
Some get used allot, and some don't.

 

[Riomouse911]

Every trip to the hardware store for a sprinkler pipe piece, or other repair, means I buy two of the one I needed, plus a size larger, smaller, coarse thread, fine thread etc.

The collection of extras has saved me from countless returns to the hardware store when I need something else the next time.

Stay safe.

 

[Anchorite]

As a reloader for 40 years now, I find myself a “scrounger,” and a “hoarder,” so yes, I have a metric sh*t ton of accumulated debris. I just have to remember what I have accumulated and that I need to periodically thin the stuff out to keep the wife happy. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been asked, “why do you have that?” Because I’m a Boy Scout.

 

[NIGHTLORD40K]

Fuses.
Fuses and relays.

 

[Anchorite]

Fuses.
Fuses and relays.

Yep. That’s like rubber bands and paper clips.

 

[Hooda Thunkit]

Whenever something in the house comes to it's end of life, I strip it down. I keep all the screws, bolts, switches, relays, springs, whatever. I have a rack of that sort of thing in the garage.
I even save lengths of wiring, plugs, receptacles. All that sort of stuff.

I can't tell you how many times that rack of "junk' has saved my butt. I didn't need to go to the store and waste 2 hours (or more) out of the job, not to mention the money saved.

 

[12Bravo20]

Along with various stuff out int the garage, I also have little plastic bins full of different gun parts that I have saved over the years. I don't normally have to worry about spare parts breeding and turning into complete guns as long as the parts are not for an AR. All AR parts are segregated and under lock and key to keep them from breeding.

 

[Hillbilly Hydrographics]

Dont forget the junk drawer that has atleast a handful of used batteries that got "saved" cause they have a little juice left. Or the cup of bread ties in kitchen window

 

[Hooda Thunkit]

Dont forget the junk drawer that has atleast a handful of used batteries that got "saved" cause they have a little juice left. Or the cup of bread ties in kitchen window

I went to an estate sale once. There was a wall of cigar boxes. Hundreds and hundreds of cigar boxes stacked up against the wall.
Open a cigar box, it's crammed to the gills with bread twist ties. Or the plastic tags that hold bags shut. Or the plastic bread bags themselves. Or buttons. Or matchbooks. Or sewing needles, and pins. Or the plastic collar tabs that hold your collar out straight, at least in 1965.
Anything small enough to fit in a cigar box.

The garage was lined with lumber drops. Bits and pieces of board; 6" to 5 feet long. Lined against the wall 3 feet thick.

The entire house was like that.

 

[dartor]

Dont forget the junk drawer that has atleast a handful of used batteries that got "saved" cause they have a little juice left. Or the cup of bread ties in kitchen window

I had forgot it, you just brought a flashback from the 60's. We had one of those drawers when I was a kid.

 

[tmd16556]

I’ve got 3 generations of parts in old wooden Kraft cheese boxes. No telling how many projects were finished only by the providence of the cheese boxes. Some of them even had 38 special brass and 80 year old mystery reloads.

 

[Robert]

I was going to prune the off topic posts out of this thread, but then there was next to nothing left...