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DENNIS MIN

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All,

Tuesday I found the bolts and u-joint straps for a driveline.

Be danged if I can re-locate them tonight, even with prayers.

I am angry at myself for not placing the parts in a more memorable location. Looks like new parts for me.

Dang.

D.
 
If I had a nickel for every part/tool/widget I've misplaced, I'd have a whole lot of nickels and still a whole lot of missing stuff. I'm lucky if I can make it from one shed to another without setting something down and forgetting where the heck it went.
 
wehad it from the beginning . when we were kids we were forgetful learning.when we were middle aged we were busy n had lots on our minds.now we grew old and its alzhiemers .I can lay a wrench down and 10 seconds later I spend 10 minutes to find it ...
 
It bugs me that every time I have to look for something I lost its always in the last place I look. A sure way to ALWAYS find something I lost is to go buy a new one.
 
I don't feel so bad now. This afternoon I misplaced a 3/8 ratchet, 9/16 and 1/2 deep well sockets and 1/2 and 9/16 end wrenches. I used them to do some adjusting on a baler before the neighbor picked it up and after he left I couldn't find them. They are not on or in the baler or my back pocket or the tractor, or in the shop. GRRRRRRR!
 
Farm inventory is a problem for me too. My rule is: Take the object and put it in plain view. While viewing it, ask yourself where would I look for this item if I was interested? That's where it goes and it works. On memory, work Dell crossword puzzles every time you have nothing to do, like eating breakfast. Get the easy ones so that you will win and stay with it. Test yourself on every one and see if you can work it without cheating! Amazing how it keeps unused minds used, keeps your vocabulary on the tip of your tongue, and helps keep Altzheimer's at bay.
 
Don't feel bad. Today I found a 1/2 inch combination wrench that I have been looking for for over a month. It was laying on the back of my couch under an Oliver Heritage magazine. No clue how it got in the house. Must have walked in when I wasn't looking.
 
Spent 2 hours looking for a 1/4 ratchet . Got aggravated because I had just used it, went to the house to vent to the lady of the house. She asked me what was that in your shirt pocket? Yep it was!
 
H*ll Dennis I keep a list of lost/misplaced tools so I don't forget that I lost them and reminds me to keep looking. Right now a small ball peen hammer and wire cutters on the list.
 
Just yesterday I was looking for a spare rim to take to the coop to have a new tire put on it for the disk. I walked around the corner and there sat the disk with a new tire already on it. I've also pulled the disk around to the shop to replace a broken disk blade only to find that the new one was already on there.

Could be worse. I had s stroke when I was 27. It really affected my short term memory. I could make a plate of food and lose it before I sat down to eat it. I'm not nearly that bad now, but I blame it on that stroke. It's nice to have a scapegoat. You should get one.
 

Hey guys stop beating yourselves up!! The situation is not that we are losing our memories, our memories are just as good as they always were. The difference is that instead of the three second thoughts of our teens and the twenty second thoughts of our forties, we are now constantly having very deep, long, and profound thoughts. These thoughts can easily span several minutes as we quickly solve community and world problems, solve mysteries of complicated electronic marvels and of course provide YT newbies with the answers that are needed every few minutes. Now most of the time all of this is going on while we are going about our everyday tasks, but every now and then something that we think that we are thinking about at the same time as we are solving world problems, is not completed, and there it is, some trivial thing is miss-filed, and some tool or part is set down without being registered in our super efficient high speed memory banks. At least that's my story and I'm stickin' to it.
 
I think someone else posted this here, but it pretty much covers it for me.

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that 1/2" socket we lost,i think I found it CRUNCH dang it was in the bottom of the gear box .oh well
 
Took the keys out to unlock the shed's this AM, set them down and couldn't find them. After awhile realized the first thing I did leaving the house was to fold down the trailer ramps. Sure as heck the keys were laying on the corner of the trailer right in front of the ramps. Oh well good exercise I guess.
 
Congratulations you are normal.
I was baling hay this afternoon, I usually get out of the tractor with the moisture probe and test the first few bales.
Wrapped a bale and reached behind the seat to grab the moisture tester, it was not there.
Got a real sick feeling because I knew I had it in my hand when I checked the previous bale.
Got out to take a look expecting the worse and there it was on top of the PTO shield, it somehow stayed on for the ride on the rough outside round.

Don't get me started on tape measures I probably own 30 of them and still have to search every time I need one.
Starting to think they must have little hidden legs or wings.
 
Local lumber yard was closing out it's hardware department; they had some cheap tape measures marked down to 25 cents. I bought them all. Clerk asked me what I was going to do with all those tape measures. I told her: "Christmas Presents" and she got a real funny look on her face, probably thinking this guy is a real cheapskate.

Truth was I was going to use them myself. They disappeared one-by-one; thank goodness Harbor Freight started giving away tape measures about that time!
 
Usually I find a lost tool the last place I look. I solved that problem, after I find the tool I still keep looking,so it is not the last place I look. LOL
 
(quoted from post at 18:42:31 08/06/16) I've probably owned 100 9/16 and 1/2 inch wrenches in my life probably couldn't lay my hands on 10 if I had to.
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Who makes inoculate for wrenches? I keep planting them but they don't germinate very well. Occasionally I'll see a volunteer in some other crop, so I usually stop to harvest it right then and there.
 
age has a way of doing that to usd ,,./I am being serious instead of having fun ,,. which we all need to have fun ,,. ,all sorts of memory inhancers out there in the herb category ,..my problem is I have them in the house but in cant find them .lol ,..yes I have stuff that I cant find ,,worst was looking for my hayrake ... I do have serveral work stations ,.. even outdoor ones under the trees ,.. when I finish with a pipe wrench I usually park it at a work station ,, or on a tractor seat , truck seat ,..
 
have 2 if you lose one ya still got another ,, for a while ,..2 or more of everything ,. makes the likelihood that they all will keep the same port , when you need them ,, kinda like finding all the hacksaws , 1 inch wrenches all having aconvention .
 
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