Stuff you find when you clean up

[Cameron Wood]

The base of the out feed table is four huge drawers with plumbing, electrical, cabinet, and misc..

I needed some friction door catches from the cabinet drawer (hinges, pulls, drawer guides, dowels, biscuits, etc.) & ended up cleaning and sorting the whole drawer.

In among the drawer guides I found a 2"x2"x15" stick of ebony that has been missing I think since 1986!

[Maurice Mcmurry]

Dad is cleaning and clearing out what is left of his shop (at 85) : ) . Everyone in the family keeps asking him if he has found my finger yet. : (

[Warren Lake]

Hopefully when you do its on ice. Have you checked the freezer.

[Marc Rochkind]

Left a pair of gloves in a friend's truck, but thought they were in the shop. Found all sorts of missing things while I was looking for those gloves. (Friend returned them when I saw him a few days later.)

[Christian Hawkshaw]

My shop is long due for a major clean up. I hope to find my missing 3/32 setup block when I do the clean up....I think it is in one of my scrap piles somewhere.

[jack duren]

While I wa# working on the daughter’s end tables, she cleaned a lot of my shop. Now I can’t find anything,..

[Jim Becker]

Finding a nice hunk of ebony isn't a horrible thing at all!

I will say that I 're-discovered' a bunch of stuff when I was moving shop and again when moving things from storage into the new shop. But I'm sure I've already lost things in that space, too. LOL :D

[Cameron Wood]

While I wa# working on the daughter’s end tables, she cleaned a lot of my shop. Now I can’t find anything,..


Why you need labels...;)

[Justin Rapp]

I need to clean out my shop also. I really need to remove everything from it as if I was moving and install some new storage. I bet I would find some things I don't even remember I have.

[Maurice Mcmurry]

Hopefully when you do its on ice. Have you checked the freezer.

I do not think anything recognizable was left. My little brother and sister were more traumatized by the accident than I was. They still play the finger in a box prank on each other.

https://www.instructables.com/How-to-make-the-finger-in-a-box-prank/

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[George Yetka]

Problem with putting things in good safe spots is that they are often forgotten(Lost). The continued problem is that one day they pop up again and I say to myself "I missed this I need to put this someplace safe". Hence re-losing it

[Dan Rude]

I keep putting things in a safe spot and never find them until I buy the replacement part or tool. :)

[Jim Becker]

I keep putting things in a safe spot and never find them until I buy the replacement part or tool. :)
I resemble that remark.... :D

[Maurice Mcmurry]

Blaming someone else for lost items usually leads to them turning up right where I left them.

514276 I have been enjoying the funnies!

[Patrick C Daugherty]

I found this a few years back while searching my stack of red oak, looking for the three pieces of sassafras I knew were there.514296

[Jimmy Harris]

I'm more of the chaotic organizer type. It all looks like a mess. But the piles are organized according to my own logic, so I almost never lose anything. And I'm really strict about adhering to my system. But God help someone else trying to find something in my system.

As an example, I have a drawer full of glue and rulers. Why? Because masking tape is a kind of adhesive, like glue. And a tape measure is a kind of tape. And rulers are like tape measures. Makes sense to me!

[Brian Hall]

Last fall I found a few missing items in attic of garage re roofing replacing a few boards able to see from top side :D

[Cameron Wood]

I'm more of the chaotic organizer type. It all looks like a mess. But the piles are organized according to my own logic, so I almost never lose anything. And I'm really strict about adhering to my system. But God help someone else trying to find something in my system.

As an example, I have a drawer full of glue and rulers. Why? Because masking tape is a kind of adhesive, like glue. And a tape measure is a kind of tape. And rulers are like tape measures. Makes sense to me!



That was kind of my logic, I think. Drawer has cabinet stuff, including stair rail and furniture bits. Ebony is used for plugs in furniture. Cabinets are like furniture. Put the ebony in with the drawer guides.

Cannot come close to saying I almost never lose anything, 'tho.

I'm still looking for something I bought a year ago before the holidays- a box of silk wool to put in sumi-tsubo. I have the receipt, brought it home, put it somewhere, and, nothing.

[Derek Meyer]

I keep putting things in a safe spot and never find them until I buy the replacement part or tool. :)

This would be why I now have two impact drivers.....

[Tom Bender]

I found this a few years back while searching my stack of red oak, looking for the three pieces of sassafras I knew were there.514296

Let me guess, you named her Sassy

[Ron Citerone]

I know where the stuff is that I put away 5 years ago...................................now the tool I used 3 minutes ago is another story!:confused:

[Joe Delfino]

I keep putting things in a safe spot and never find them until I buy the replacement part or tool. :)

This is how I find things. :D

[Justin Rapp]

How about stuff you can't find that is right in front of you. Yesterday I was walking around looking for my combination square for a few minutes. I looked on my work bench at least 3 times. Finally about to give up, and grab another square, I walk over to my work bench and it's sitting right there. Go figure!

[Lee Schierer]

I keep putting things in a safe spot and never find them until I buy the replacement part or tool. :)

When you think or say: "put this in a safe spot" that is an old spell incantation that transfers things to an alternate universe. Please use it with caution.