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    A most annoying workshop search

    So I spent 20 minutes looking for something in my shop and finally when I found it , I forgot why I was looking for it!
    Dennis

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    Old age catching up to you? Happens to the best of us.
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    It only gets worse... Not that it has ever happened to me.
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    After searching that is when you end up ordering a new one and then finding the original.

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    I keep on forgetting just to convince my wife that I can't make her something unless I need to get that special tool. She might linger a while, but usually relents.
    Thoughts entering one's mind need not exit one's mouth!
    As I age my memory fades .... and that's a load off my mind!

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    How about you order the wrong dye stain, so you go to the Woodcraft store to get the right one, and when you get back, open the bottle and realize you replaced the wrong one with another wrong one!! So now you have $30 worth of stain you probably will never use.......

    Getting old can be expensive.

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    Duplicates......

    Got a bunch...yeah...most are because I just gave up looking for the one(s) I already had.


    I'm just tickled pink though to see I'm not alone in this! We should start a club!
    My granddad always said, :As one door closes, another opens".
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    Here is one of my favorites, I will be looking for something for a project or ?? . Then I will find something else and go OH COOL I remember this, and start playing with the new thing forgetting all about what I was doing. 2 days later I start to put the shop back together and realize that I was looking for something that I never did find. So now I am back to square one looking for that thing again.
    It just never ends.

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    I don't know- it's not all that bad really. It's like being 3 again but now you're allowed to have a shop full of dangerous tools.

    I'm reaching the point where when I start looking for something, I think I should jot down what I'm looking for.

    Not really, but when I begin my search, I do make a point of saying it in my head. "I'm looking for my bevel square" It does help. In the middle of a project I've got a dozen things in my head at any one time. This forgetfulness is annoying and didn't happen 20 years ago, but I just shrug it off and there are techniques that help.

    I shrug it off because 20 years ago I did spend at least 15 minutes looking for my glasses, which were new for me at the time, and then found them right where I left them- on the top of my head.

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    I needed a special size drill bit for a project I was working on. Pulled my bit set out and the only bit missing was the one I needed.
    Looked and looked but no luck. Had to close up the shop and drive to get a new one.
    Back at my shop, with new drill bit in hand, I walked over to my drill press and guess what was already in the drill chuck?
    "Remember back in the day, when things were made by hand, and people took pride in their work?"
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    Maybe you forgot that you changed your mind while you was looking for whatever it is you was looking for.

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    The next phase is you forget what you were looking for AND why before you're half-way done with the search...
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    The most expensive tool is the one you buy "cheaply" and often...

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    I keep a chalkboard in the shop on which I write the things that I am missing and looking for so I can remember. I cross them off if I find them. Sometimes the same thing shows up again, usually my Starrett square and my digital calipers. I will be needing a bigger chalkboard soon.

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    At least you remembered what you were looking for long enough to actually find it.

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    This is a natural sign of aging. At least you did find something!

    9/10 woodworkers who are affluent I know are hoarders. They have too many tools to keep track of. I look at them as a warning and try (with some good success) to keep my tool inventory to what are essential and to what I will use in the foreseeable future. I sell my unused or little used machines or tools once every few years. It really feels good when you know you have new room for new tools...I mean toys. Try it!

    I also buy tools on the higher end so resale is easy and quick. Festool stuff for example. I got three Pro5 and sold all my other Rotex, ETS sanders...the sale paid for all the new PRO90s with some money left for a short track. Bosch goes out the door quick too.

    Simon
    Last edited by Simon MacGowen; 06-24-2018 at 1:24 PM.

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