I think I can,,,I think I can

larry@stinescorner

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I just keep sayin it to myself
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lets get started,sorting out?
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gonna hang some up
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some jars are seperated already
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Some are not!
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these are all masonry nails seperated in sizes in a HFrieght 3,99 organizer box
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screws in a 7.99 Hfreight organizer box
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finish nails in a 3,99 Hfrieght organizer box
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and regular nails, Thats all I Could do so far ,there is more to do,,,I think I can,,,I think I can,,,just keep saying it....
 
You have a lot of patience!

I think I would have tossed all that stuff out and forgot about it.


It does look like a good way to keep busy, though.
 
I was at the landfill and saw a brother & sister who were cleaning out their grandfathers stuff after he passed away.
Your picture look so much what they were throwing out INCLUDING HIS WW2 metals !!!
A staff member, (who was a reservist) climbed down 10 feet into the big dumpster and got the metals. Was he mad !! "Dam kids today have no respect" is what he said. He took the metals to a museum.
 
Looks like you missed a nail and got your thumbnail! OUCH! :)
I gave away 40 lbs of nails this summer. Hadn't used them in
ten years so I figured it was time. I mainly use screws or a nail
gun now-a-days. I kept a few around just in case though.

I have a bolt bin full of nuts and bolts I've been working on just
like you are though, so "I feel your pain" so to speak! :lol:
 
I'm glad you can. I have more junk than a half dozen people could sort out. Then I don't have enough space to put the stuff if it was sorted out.
 
You have much more patience than I do!! All those rusty nails would end up buried under a tree here. I was told long ago to look at the old farmsteads. The small repair shops that they had always had scrap steel leaning against a tree, those trees were the largest and healthiest trees on the place. Whenever I plant a tree, I dump a bunch of old nails, bolts or small pieces of scrap iron under the root ball. Chris
 
you know, I was working on something for a guy the other day. charging 11.50 an hour. needed a couple little nuts for what I was working on. he had a bunch of jars of stuff like you got there. looked through pretty much all he had, but didn't find the right size. had to go to town anyways to buy a couple little ole 5 cent nuts. probly cost him about $8 for me to look and find nothing. kind of made me wonder if that kind of stuff is worth keeping.
 
I do agree,I thought if I Could organize I might find it when i need it,,,,maybe? It was raining so I gave it a try,,,,,at least after I Kick off and the wife and daughter have the auction,you all can say I Remember when he organized all that stuff! (lol)
 
Well, I know its a chore, but if you would like to put things in to perspective/relativity, stop by my place.

I believe you will think you have an easy chore after that,
and are blessed.
Yep, that bad at my place, but we'll getter done.

Just goofin around, but ain't it a chore we all try our best
to put off?
I'm guilty, thanks for letting me know I'm not alone.
Best wishes,
Danny
 
Been doing the same thing the last few day. Trying to get my neighbor and my wife to help. They are the ones that always need something. LOL
 
I tried to sort thru one drawer tonight. If only I had room to put all the stuff in its correct place, but those places are already full of stuff too. I thru out a new ink cartridge that was probably 10 years old and a Camcorder tape that was still in its wrapper. Hated to do it, but some things just have to go.
SDE
 
Larry, you and I think alike. I have most of my plunder sorted into groups that allow me to find something when I need it. I used to work in road construction, and you can't believe what you'll find along the highway. Many days I came home with my pockets bulging with bolts, nuts and washers that had fallen off of ???. When you live 20 miles from a decent hardware store, a 5 cent nut can be a valuable item.

Don't re-use used wire nuts (except on a tube of caulk)! That's a no-no! The "spring" loses it's bite.

Paul
 
I've been a collector and a rainy day sorter for 40 years !! My dad even ran threw the fireplace ashes with a magnet to save the nails and screws !
 
That looks like the same stuff I was sorting late last summer, took a five gallon bucket and two one gallon paint cans full to the recycling center and there's more to go through when I get back in the mood.
 
As a contractor I always have stuff leftover mixed up
extra hardware ect. Would be glad to give it away to
someone that can use it. Got a bucket full now. Last
winter we cleaned out the carpentry trailer and a lot
went for scrap as we can't keep it all. A lot of
commercial hardware comes with parts to mount in
different ways so plenty of left over pieces.
 
When you store stuff like that in 5 gallon buckets and have to go through a few of them just to find a couple of nuts and bolts.....you appreciate the organized people of the world that use coffee cans and mayonnaise jars! :D

Is anyone else as bad as me? I even save pulled nails!
 
Yap , those jars get rusty and the lids are almost impossible to open . My dad used tobacco cans and I literally had to cut them open. Your containers are much better. -- good cold weather project -- have fun

Larry -- Ontario
 
When I see that all I can think of is how much $$$$ it would cost to walk into Lowes and replace all of those. Hardware is EXPENSIVE !!!
 
Been retired 15 years and still only a small fraction is organized. H*ll my Dad left me buckets that I haven't gone thru
 
That looks a lot like my project. FIL never threw anything away. I've been saving the large plastic coffee jugs to sort things. Plastic since I have a dirt floor shed and I can label the lids. He had lots of irreplaceable parts stashed away so I can't just scrap everything.
 
I bought shelving and a couple pallets of those plastic organizers for cheap at the Marion PA auction a few years back.Have about 250 all labeled on the front when I get a box and contents at a sale I sort it on rainy/snowy days.
 
Fifty plus years ago a neighbor in his sixties kept
that stuff in glass jars with metal lids. The lids
were nailed to a 4x4 that was hung horizontal from
the ceiling with large bolts stuck in the ends. He
nailed lids on all four sides so he could spin the
4x4 and see what he had and just remove the jar he
needed. His shop was a lot neater than mine.
 
Some of those jars/ cans look like clean out the pocket dumps. Need 2 nuts, nails, bolt grab 5 toss the 2 left in a container after you drop one and use the other 2. (any combination of numbers can be substituted in) This process repeats till jar is full or you run out of sorted parts and need 1 now.
 
The first time I retired I spent about a month organizing all the stuff like that in the barn. I need to retire some more so I can do it again, LOL.
 
I renovate homes and always save every nail, screw, bolt, washer, anything metal. Last two cottages, I recycled enough nails & screws to purchase a new firearm! We call it "scrapping".
 

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