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So, I spent the better part of the afternoon looking for a small part that I knew I had.
I picked it up a couple of months ago and put it where I typically set my wallet and keys so I wouldn’t forget about it. One day I remember moving it and putting it on top of a tool box with my “gunsmithing tools” figuring that would be a good sport for it since I would need tools to install it when the time came. Well, at some point I needed something out of the tool box and I remember taking the part off the top of the tool box but couldn’t for the life of me remember whatI did with it from there.
After searching everywhere I finally found the darn thing. I have a large plastic storage bin where I keep all of my gun parts and somehow it had actually gotten placed in there. I have no recollection of putting it in there so that was about the last place I looked for it.
You can bet from now on I’m putting things where they belong as soon as I get them.
Just use your Echo Silver.
I do �� like that all the time, especially since I moved!
Aardvark
01-05-2018, 19:56
Heck, I'm so disorganized it's become the norm to plan time to find what I need for my projects.
I spent the better part of Wednesday night digging around my garage and basement trying to find the new 7mm smk’s I bought to load up for silhouette, almost convinced I never got them.... then I asked my wife where she put everything from the top of the safe and she took me to her corner of the basement and opened a big green Rubbermaid tub. Turns out I had been missing a bunch of great shit for 6 months! I still love my wife, but.... ahhhhhhh!!! Haha
I still love my wife, but.... ahhhhhhh!!! Haha
This for sure. Whenever I’m looking for something for hours my wife seems to always be at fault.
I'm missing a brand new, worn once, black leather boot. It was by my front door. The match is still there.
Been going through everything and getting more organized. It will help with the purge, as I often will think, "No, I shouldn't throw this out because it's needed for x, y, z". Then I find three more things like it, and can get rid of 2.
TEAMRICO
01-05-2018, 22:46
Sounds like a case of CRS........
I too am afflicted....
If its a low enough priced item, I'll by 2. One is a sacrifice to the universe so that I may keep the other. Most the time I find my lost bit months later. Having already bought a replacement.
Just use your Echo Silver.
Yes, correct.
If its a low enough priced item, I'll by 2. One is a sacrifice to the universe so that I may keep the other. Most the time I find my lost bit months later. Having already bought a replacement.
I've actually been doing that lately.
Perfectly timed thread, as I've spent ALL night looking for something that I know have around the house. I know I have it because I was going to order four from Amazon for future projects, just this week! Then I saw I still had one and didn't order any. Now that I need the damn thing, I can't find it. I just ordered three tonight. Driving me crazy.
Great-Kazoo
01-05-2018, 23:14
I don't have an issue looking for misplaced items. Ask anyone whose been over, they'll tell you. When asked if i have X or know where it would be. It's easy. EVERYTHING'S in the shop. Where exactly, who knows, but if it's anywhere it's there........somewhere.
I don't have an issue looking for misplaced items. Ask anyone whose been over, they'll tell you. When asked if i have X or know where it would be. It's easy. EVERYTHING'S in the shop. Where exactly, who knows, but if it's anywhere it's there........somewhere.
I live in a small house, and the longer I look, the more infuriated I become. I feel like I can look EVERYWHERE in about 10 minutes. So when the two hour mark comes and goes I'm pretty livid.
Ya'll are gettin' old
Yep. We put things "in a safe place". It's so "safe", we can't find it.
Some day when I clean my garage I should end up with a box full of solder and flux for copper pipes and about three or four propane torches. Plumbing repairs don't occur frequently at my place but when they do I can never find my flux/solder/torch so I just go get new stuff. I make sure to put it where I'll remember for next time but next time rolls around and sure enough I can't find it again and have to buy more. Weed wacker line is the same way. I know I have three or four rolls of it somewhere but when I need it I can't find it so just go buy a new roll.
Hell Ray, none of us are gettin' younger. Seems I've been doing that as of late also. To be honest, that is one thing that will frustrate me more than just about anything. I will swear to the moon and back that I set something down in a particular place and then go back to find it missing. As a fellow gunsmith I have also learned over the years about "air soluble" parts. Learned to buy 2 or 3 of the small pins & springs over the years. It's come in handy for more than just me. I never judge someone when they call me asking if I have a spare small part, even though I know exactly what happened. Good Lord willing I'll be able to buy a house here soon so that way I have more room to lose things in.
OtterbatHellcat
01-06-2018, 08:21
Yeah...CRS.
I once took like $500 and "put it in a safe place". Six months later after I was certain it was lost forever, I found it rolled up in a decorative pen holder thing.
[facepalm]
Sounds like a case of CRS........
I too am afflicted....
But I bet you remember LP/OP site selection criteria like it was yesterday, right?
StagLefty
01-06-2018, 09:05
I started packing in August and getting ready hopefully for a move in the near future. Shop was the first to get packed because I knew it would be the worse.
Drives me crazy when I need something now because even though everything is marked I still can't find that little dohickey I need !!! A lot of the household stuf is also packed in boxes and marked but same result when I need something.
Kinda regret doing so much so early but it was nice weather and made sense at the time.
SideShow Bob
01-06-2018, 10:37
Ya'll are gettin' old
Laugh now sonny, you’ll be like us someday ! [blaster]
My gun corner in the basement is roughly 8x8, if that. But shit can vanish in that space like you wouldn't believe.....
Grant H.
01-06-2018, 11:37
I'm not old, but I fit into this conversation perfectly.
Sometimes it is my wonderful wife moving things, but usually it's just me thinking I'll remember, and then failing.
For all my 80% builds, since I've done so many, I bought a bunch of plastic bin boxes, and once I open the parts for a build, they go in the bin box until it's completed. That alone cut down on the infuriation that occurs from searching for missing parts.
I'm not old, but I fit into this conversation perfectly.
Sometimes it is my wonderful wife moving things, but usually it's just me thinking I'll remember, and then failing.
For all my 80% builds, since I've done so many, I bought a bunch of plastic bin boxes, and once I open the parts for a build, they go in the bin box until it's completed. That alone cut down on the infuriation that occurs from searching for missing parts.
That is smart! I have one bin and use baggies but it's messy. Like a lot of you, I buy extras just in case. Figure I lose it or it breaks, I have one.
Whoever lives in my house after me will have an abundance of take down pin detents! Somewhere...
Ya'll gave me an idea of a way to use my new Amazon Alexa Home Voice control devices. It has a list feature. So I can create new lists for things like "kitchen utility drawer" and then add things to that "list" with commands like;
Alexa add envelopes to the kitchen utility drawer list.
Alexa add telescoping magnet to the kitchen utility drawer list.
etc.
It needs some fleshing out, and a search tool, so I can say
Alexa, where are envelopes?
and it will look through my lists and return "Envelopes are in the kitchen utility drawer list."
:D
Geeky, I know...
-John
That is a fantastic resource for an insurance claim if your house ever burns down, and your Alexa survives.
Ya'll gave me an idea of a way to use my new Amazon Alexa Home Voice control devices. It has a list feature. So I can create new lists for things like "kitchen utility drawer" and then add things to that "list" with commands like;
Alexa add envelopes to the kitchen utility drawer list.
Alexa add telescoping magnet to the kitchen utility drawer list.
etc.
It needs some fleshing out, and a search tool, so I can say
Alexa, where are envelopes?
and it will look through my lists and return "Envelopes are in the kitchen utility drawer list."
:D
Geeky, I know...
-John
That’s genius. I’m sure someone will make millions off your idea.
If you get her trained to find stuff for you let me know. Might justify buying one.
That is a fantastic resource for an insurance claim if your house ever burns down, and your Alexa survives.
The list is "in the cloud". It will work for any Alexa enabled device linked to your Amazon account. I think the 'Lists' can also be accessed on a device that has the Alexa app. installed.
encorehunter
01-06-2018, 16:01
You guys are complaining about losing stuff over a period of days? I was installing cabinets the other day and set down my Zipper saw. Fifteen seconds later, without moving from the same spot I lost it. It took about five minutes to find it so I could use it for another ten seconds. I swear, I spend more time looking for tools on the job site than I do working. Most of the time, I have just used them, and I'm the only one working.
You guys are complaining about losing stuff over a period of days? I was installing cabinets the other day and set down my Zipper saw. Fifteen seconds later, without moving from the same spot I lost it. It took about five minutes to find it so I could use it for another ten seconds. I swear, I spend more time looking for tools on the job site than I do working. Most of the time, I have just used them, and I'm the only one working.
Same
You guys are complaining about losing stuff over a period of days? I was installing cabinets the other day and set down my Zipper saw. Fifteen seconds later, without moving from the same spot I lost it. It took about five minutes to find it so I could use it for another ten seconds. I swear, I spend more time looking for tools on the job site than I do working. Most of the time, I have just used them, and I'm the only one working.
Tool gnomes. It's gotta' be.
You guys are complaining about losing stuff over a period of days? I was installing cabinets the other day and set down my Zipper saw. Fifteen seconds later, without moving from the same spot I lost it. It took about five minutes to find it so I could use it for another ten seconds. I swear, I spend more time looking for tools on the job site than I do working. Most of the time, I have just used them, and I'm the only one working.
Yep. Me too.
I have a set of 1911 grips that I remember using masking tape to hold them together. Put them somewhere that they wouldn't get scratched up. Haven't seen them in years. No clue at this point.
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