I have a dilemma. I have collected loose nuts, bolts, screws, nails and
all kinds of hardware while cleaning up my shop. I have them in a
coffee can. Now I need to label this can. Since this hardware is not
sorted, do I label this assorted hardware, unsorted hardware or
unassorted hardware? I am so confused.
-bl
bubbalouie wrote:
> I have a dilemma. I have collected loose nuts, bolts, screws, nails
and
> all kinds of hardware while cleaning up my shop. I have them in a
> coffee can. Now I need to label this can. Since this hardware is
not
> sorted, do I label this assorted hardware, unsorted hardware or
> unassorted hardware? I am so confused.
> -bl
i just labeled all of mine "maxwell house". i have about 27 of them,
and i spend many a happy hour listening to the oldies radio station and
picking through unsorted, unassorted, miscelaneous little pieces of
metal and plastic and.......ick! yuck!.....what the heck was
that?!?!?!?!
martin caskey
millers island, maryland
Mon, Nov 29, 2004, 11:48am (EST+5) [email protected]
(bubbalouie) burbled:
I have a dilemma. <snip>
And I've got an old plasic bucket.
Any odd bolt, nut, screw, nail, or whatever, off of old tools,
cars, wherever, goes in it. When I needs something off the wall, I look
in the bucket. Sometimes I find it, sometimes not. Be a waste of time
trying to organize any of it.
JOAT
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind dont
matter, and those who matter dont mind.
- Dr Seuss
In article <[email protected]>,
Joe C. <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>"bubbalouie" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>> I have a dilemma. I have collected loose nuts, bolts, screws, nails and
>> all kinds of hardware while cleaning up my shop. I have them in a
>> coffee can. Now I need to label this can. Since this hardware is not
>> sorted, do I label this assorted hardware, unsorted hardware or
>> unassorted hardware? I am so confused.
>> -bl
>
>you're nuts and screws, loose
>
Hey! There's a use for that classic newspaper headline, about the inmate
at the insane asylum, that got out of his room, raped the cleaning lady,
and escaped from the property: "Nut Screws Washer and Bolts"
bubbalouie <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> I have a dilemma. I have collected loose nuts, bolts, screws, nails and
> all kinds of hardware while cleaning up my shop. I have them in a
> coffee can. Now I need to label this can. Since this hardware is not
> sorted, do I label this assorted hardware, unsorted hardware or
> unassorted hardware? I am so confused.
> -bl
Label it "trash" and put it by the curb.
In article <[email protected]>,
bubbalouie <[email protected]> wrote:
>I have a dilemma. I have collected loose nuts, bolts, screws, nails and
>all kinds of hardware while cleaning up my shop. I have them in a
>coffee can. Now I need to label this can. Since this hardware is not
>sorted, do I label this assorted hardware, unsorted hardware or
>unassorted hardware? I am so confused.
>-bl
To complicate the issue, the ones with threads on them are 'screw-tible';
the ones w/o threads are 'in-screw-tible'.
Best thing to do, is get *two* more coffee cans. and line them up in a row.
The (empty) one on the right gets labled 'MIS D'. The (empty) one on the
left is 'MIS B'. Whereupon, it is 'obvious' that the full one is 'misc'.
On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 11:48:49 GMT, bubbalouie
<[email protected]> wrote:
>I have a dilemma. I have collected loose nuts, bolts, screws, nails and
>all kinds of hardware while cleaning up my shop. I have them in a
>coffee can. Now I need to label this can. Since this hardware is not
>sorted, do I label this assorted hardware, unsorted hardware or
>unassorted hardware? I am so confused.
>-bl
Label it "I was too cheap to buy one of these"
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/Displayitem.taf?itemnumber=92226
On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 18:12:24 -0500, sandman <[email protected]> wrote:
>In article <[email protected]>,
> patriarch <<patriarch>[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Picking through the bucket also seems to offer the opportunity to solve a
>> problem in another way. Sort of a creativity enhancer, if you will.
>
>LOL... isn't THAT the truth. My SWMBO calls that "constructive
>procrastination." That is, when a piece appears to be usable in another
>repair altogether.
>Working on the mower..heyyy THIS might work on the dryer I was trying to
>fix...and the original trip to the shed was to repair a screen door.
>
I can sort of see that. The problem was that when we were picking
through the bucket, that windrower, or that combine, or that disc had to be
fixed *now*. What often happened was that we would go through the bucket,
couldn't find *the* bolt or nut, and granddad still wound up making a trip
into town to buy one.
>I have heard this kinda thing happens to some people.
>
>Rob
bubbalouie wrote:
> I have a dilemma. I have collected loose nuts, bolts, screws, nails and
> all kinds of hardware while cleaning up my shop. I have them in a
> coffee can. Now I need to label this can. Since this hardware is not
> sorted, do I label this assorted hardware, unsorted hardware or
> unassorted hardware? I am so confused.
> -bl
hardware in a configuration that is not quite entirely unlike oragnized
bubbalouie wrote:
> I have a dilemma. I have collected loose nuts, bolts, screws, nails and
> all kinds of hardware while cleaning up my shop. I have them in a
> coffee can. Now I need to label this can. Since this hardware is not
> sorted, do I label this assorted hardware, unsorted hardware or
> unassorted hardware? I am so confused.
> -bl
I label it: To Do
mac davis <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:
> On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 11:48:49 GMT, bubbalouie
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>I have a dilemma. I have collected loose nuts, bolts, screws, nails and
>>all kinds of hardware while cleaning up my shop. I have them in a
>>coffee can. Now I need to label this can. Since this hardware is not
>>sorted, do I label this assorted hardware, unsorted hardware or
>>unassorted hardware? I am so confused.
>>-bl
>
> Label it "I was too cheap to buy one of these"
> http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/Displayitem.taf?itemnumber=92226
LOL!!! That's what started this!!! I just bought these boxes and was
trying to get them organized!!!!
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=44625
-bl
bubbalouie writes:
>
>LOL!!! That's what started this!!! I just bought these boxes and was
>trying to get them organized!!!!
>
>http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=44625
You're gonna love them. Greatest non-motorized dust collectors in the world. I
got a slew of two different sizes nearly 20 years ago, and spend as much time
cleaning them as using them. Sit some in a window. They do a fine job of
collecting dead blue bottle flies, too.
Charlie Self
"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity
has made them good." H. L. Mencken
Charlie Self wrote:
> You're gonna love them. Greatest non-motorized dust collectors in the world. I
> got a slew of two different sizes nearly 20 years ago, and spend as much time
> cleaning them as using them. Sit some in a window. They do a fine job of
> collecting dead blue bottle flies, too.
Not to mention, spider webs.
Joe
Mark & Juanita <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:
>>I have a dilemma. <snip>
>>
>> And I've got an old plasic bucket.
>>
>> Any odd bolt, nut, screw, nail, or whatever, off of old tools,
>>cars, wherever, goes in it. When I needs something off the wall, I
>>look in the bucket. Sometimes I find it, sometimes not. Be a waste
>>of time trying to organize any of it.
>>
>
> My dad has that bucket for nuts and bolts. I can't imagine the
> amount of
> time my granddad and I wasted looking for the one nut, bolt or washer
> in that bucket that wasn't "too big" or "too small" for a repair job
> we were doing on a piece of machinery. Would have saved way more
> time to have sorted and organized that bucket than all the times we
> went through the bucket sorting it one bolt at a time (yeah, back then
> I wasn't thinking either -- I guess I just sort of thought that's how
> everybody did things).
>
Hey! It IS organized! It's in the bucket!
And if I can't find it in about 10 minutes, I know to run down to the
hardware store, and buy exactly what I want. What really frustrates me is
KNOWING I have a box of what I'm looking for, and not being able to find
it. Likely because I put it away 'somewhere safe'.
Picking through the bucket also seems to offer the opportunity to solve a
problem in another way. Sort of a creativity enhancer, if you will.
Patriarch,
who belives that there just might be one heck of an estate sale one day...
sandman <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:
> In article <[email protected]>,
> patriarch <<patriarch>[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Picking through the bucket also seems to offer the opportunity to
>> solve a problem in another way. Sort of a creativity enhancer, if
>> you will.
>
> LOL... isn't THAT the truth. My SWMBO calls that "constructive
> procrastination." That is, when a piece appears to be usable in
> another repair altogether.
> Working on the mower..heyyy THIS might work on the dryer I was trying
> to fix...and the original trip to the shed was to repair a screen
> door.
>
> I have heard this kinda thing happens to some people.
>
Some people describe it as lack of focus. Those people could be described
as narrow-minded. ;-)
Patriarch
bubbalouie asked the following:
> I have a dilemma. I have collected loose nuts, bolts, screws, nails and
> all kinds of hardware while cleaning up my shop. I have them in a
> coffee can. Now I need to label this can. Since this hardware is not
> sorted, do I label this assorted hardware, unsorted hardware or
> unassorted hardware? I am so confused.
> -bl
I have a container like that. It will never get sorted because there
is not enough of any one type of screw, nut, bolt or whatchamacallit
to separate into its own container. I call it my "whatnut jar". When
I need some particular item of hardware, I just dump it out, sort
through it, find the one or two items that I need and then scoop it
all back into the container.
You would think that eventually the container would become empty but
there is always that couple of odd items that I throw in there to keep
it replenished.
In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] (JMWEBER987) wrote:
> unsorted assorted hardware
Mine is labelled: HELLBOX
In article <[email protected]>,
patriarch <<patriarch>[email protected]> wrote:
> Picking through the bucket also seems to offer the opportunity to solve a
> problem in another way. Sort of a creativity enhancer, if you will.
LOL... isn't THAT the truth. My SWMBO calls that "constructive
procrastination." That is, when a piece appears to be usable in another
repair altogether.
Working on the mower..heyyy THIS might work on the dryer I was trying to
fix...and the original trip to the shed was to repair a screen door.
I have heard this kinda thing happens to some people.
Rob
On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 11:48:49 GMT, bubbalouie
<[email protected]> wrote:
>I have a dilemma. I have collected loose nuts, bolts, screws, nails and
>all kinds of hardware while cleaning up my shop. I have them in a
>coffee can. Now I need to label this can. Since this hardware is not
>sorted, do I label this assorted hardware, unsorted hardware or
>unassorted hardware? I am so confused.
>-bl
"Gluing Weight"
Barry
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 03:54:56 -0500, [email protected] (J T) wrote:
>Mon, Nov 29, 2004, 11:48am (EST+5) [email protected]
>(bubbalouie) burbled:
>I have a dilemma. <snip>
>
> And I've got an old plasic bucket.
>
> Any odd bolt, nut, screw, nail, or whatever, off of old tools,
>cars, wherever, goes in it. When I needs something off the wall, I look
>in the bucket. Sometimes I find it, sometimes not. Be a waste of time
>trying to organize any of it.
>
My dad has that bucket for nuts and bolts. I can't imagine the amount of
time my granddad and I wasted looking for the one nut, bolt or washer in
that bucket that wasn't "too big" or "too small" for a repair job we were
doing on a piece of machinery. Would have saved way more time to have
sorted and organized that bucket than all the times we went through the
bucket sorting it one bolt at a time (yeah, back then I wasn't thinking
either -- I guess I just sort of thought that's how everybody did things).
>
>
>JOAT
>Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind dont
>matter, and those who matter dont mind.
>- Dr Seuss
On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 19:24:23 GMT, mac davis <[email protected]>
wrote:
>On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 11:48:49 GMT, bubbalouie
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>I have a dilemma. I have collected loose nuts, bolts, screws, nails and
>>all kinds of hardware while cleaning up my shop. I have them in a
>>coffee can. Now I need to label this can. Since this hardware is not
>>sorted, do I label this assorted hardware, unsorted hardware or
>>unassorted hardware? I am so confused.
>>-bl
>
>Label it "I was too cheap to buy one of these"
>http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/Displayitem.taf?itemnumber=92226
30 bins wouldn't even scratch the surface of my hardware stash, let
alone the unsorted stuff....
you're nuts and screws, loose
"bubbalouie" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I have a dilemma. I have collected loose nuts, bolts, screws, nails and
> all kinds of hardware while cleaning up my shop. I have them in a
> coffee can. Now I need to label this can. Since this hardware is not
> sorted, do I label this assorted hardware, unsorted hardware or
> unassorted hardware? I am so confused.
> -bl