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Misery loves company I’ve been in my shop looking for a part that I set aside so I would know where it was when I needed it. I’ve looked everywhere and had no luck. Are there any other folks out there that have to buy a 2nd part because they can’t find the perfectly good one they already own only to certainly find it again when the new part comes?
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Re: Misery loves company All the time.
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Re: Misery loves company YES! Hate that. The older I get the more often it happens. Steve
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Re: Misery loves company O/T, but I found I had THREE carpet sets for my Corvette in my shop.:eek:
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Re: Misery loves company Wait until you get to be my age (about the same as your grandpa's). I don't spend much time looking anymore. It's easier to source another part. Especially if it's a hardware store item.
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Re: Misery loves company It happens to me every now and then. But a bigger shed with more shelving might be the way to go. Or maybe more space to loose things in. Regards, Kevin.
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Re: Misery loves company Haha! Thought I was alone. I put the glass fuel sediment bowl away so it would be "safe", and of course now I can't find it anywhere, so I just ordered a new one. New problem though is trying to keep track of what I have ordered. I have ordered so much stuff over the last two years for my project, that I have actually forgotten about some stuff. Now that is scary. Lol!
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Re: Misery loves company In a similar vein, when I discard something I've not used in years, within 10 days I need it.
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Re: Misery loves company I just spent an hour today looking for a small part I know I have but can't seem to find. Time to order another one. Fortunately, it is relatively inexpensive. Not the first time this has happened.
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Re: Misery loves company Constantly!
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Re: Misery loves company I often have a job to do that requires a special tool. I always know I have the tool but I just can't find it. So, I go out and buy another one, do the job and when I go to put the tool I just bought away, I go to put it exactly where the "missing" tool has been all the time. Once I went to take a trailer hitch off of a car that was being traded in. I couldn't find the long 5/8 box wrench I needed. Bought another one. Took the bolt off one side and when I went to take off the other side, there was the missing wrench hanging on the bolt to be loosened.
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"YES" to the replies. Hope:) |
Re: Misery loves company inventory your stuff. it takes a while to do but is sure worth it.
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Re: Misery loves company I don't even know what 'inventory' means and I have run a certified, registered, insured business for almost 35 years. People want me to make them stuff outa wood, so I do and then they pay me and I buy stuff with the money they give me. If there is any left over I buy stuff for my ford projects and then I lose the parts and order replacements. Good thing I ain't your accountant, huh?
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Re: Misery loves company special part in a special place means even the fbi couldnt find it in my shop
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Re: Misery loves company I'm selling off some of my stuff due to age. I'm finding all kinds of stuff that I forgot I had. Duplicates of many items that I lost and replaced. LOL That's life.
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You gotta be kidding. Where the hell did I put that damn inventory? |
Re: Misery loves company These days, if I need something (a part or a tool), I have gotten into the habit of checking my "stash".
I usually find what I was looking for. |
Re: Misery loves company Nope, I don't loose a part. Kind of a first world problem. It'll be there, you'll find it. Maybe create a bin system of parts.
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Probably 10-15 years ago I gave the big brother concept a bit thought or care. Till I realized they don't care and I don't care. We all carry cellphones... If anyone wants to listen to me everyday for ever. It's going to get really boring. Well less you like flatheads and cars. Everything is not a big conspiracy. But we digress hahaha |
Re: Misery loves company How about when you have looked all over and under everything to find
that box of something you need and the air is blue from the cursing ??? Next day you walk in, the air has cleared, and there it is, or, was all the time. As the saying goes, "If it had teeth it could have bit you". |
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Well it would have bit ya. :D Close is for horseshoes and handgrenades. It's okay just to be boring and organized. I don't need a rock anthem at the library to pick a book. I prefer to read more then one book. |
Re: Misery loves company My brand new snap on box wrench gone gone. couple days later it was on the kitchen
table so I told her why didn't you tell me you took it, I didn't take it, I took it out of the washing machine....this is looking more like a broken record.... |
Re: Misery loves company How about when you start out to do something , but along the way you find something that you think you should do first , and forget about the first thing you started out to do.
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Re: Misery loves company Or how about when your looking for a something else, you find a different part you knew you had, so you move it to a new spot so you can find it later, which never happens.
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Re: Misery loves company Ever take something apart that had 6 screws,go to put it all back togeather and only have 5 screws,!!!
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Re: Misery loves company Been there, done that, and will do it again, and again, and .....
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Re: Misery loves company Geeze........what you all said..........
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Re: Misery loves company I have replaced many sockets that seem to go missing only to find them mixed in with the metric ones. Usually happens due to my son using my tools.
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Re: Misery loves company All the time. Sometimes live on camera too.
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I have the same problem.....but I work in three separate buildings........all on the same property, two together, one a hundred feet from those two. I get a lot of exercise walking back and forth looking for stuff that was in the first one I was in !!!!....I started writing on the boxes parts come in and trying to keep the same stuff together. So far it’s saved me some time and shoe leather........Mark
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When I go to put it back together, let's not even mention the fact that it won't line back up or I can't get the screw started back in the hole it came out of ... |
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in a large cardboard box on the Floor with high sides and magnets. springs and C lips metering balls your enemy. LOL |
Re: Misery loves company If I'm starting a project and know I have parts stashed all over for it, if I am looking for something and see one of the other parts I'll grab that too and put it in a "current" box. that is out in the workspace where I am working. It saves that feeling when you need that part and can't remember where it was when you saw it even though it was recently.
Now that's the theory. I do manage to do it sometimes, but I fall into the same trap myself sometimes. Mart. |
Re: Misery loves company What was this thread about?
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Re: Misery loves company I usually find it right after I buy another one. Pete/Ct.
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Re: Misery loves company Isn't this all FUN! Worse is you have a spare for years, decide finally you'll never use it, then you sell it or get rid of it, then a short time later....you need it!!!!
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Re: Misery loves company In my case it's kinda like finding buried treasure when I do finally find something that I thought was lost forever :) :)
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Re: Misery loves company I have Gremlins' in my shop, and they hide all my tools. Hid the chuc ke for my lathe, had to make another one. Next day the old one was back. frustrating,
Granps |
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