Keep track of your stuff

[ben4372]

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.

[Irving]

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]

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.

[Irving]

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.

[Gman]

Ya'll are gettin' old

Yep. We put things "in a safe place". It's so "safe", we can't find it.

[ray1970]

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.

[Squeeze]

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]

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.

[CS1983]

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]

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.