Tired of looking for things

37chief · Nov 25, 2012

Does anyone else have a problem keeping stuff from disappearing? One thing that comes to mind, is, I bought a new air filter for my JD. I looked and looked finally ended up putting the old one back in. A few weeks later there it is right in plain sight, in one of my cabinets. Today I was looking for motorcycle parts, and found new lift larm weld on connectors, and new pins. Didn't know I even had them. Just like a early Christmas everytime I go to my cabinets. I should put everything in a pile in the middle of my floor and go throgh it, that way I will haaave a good idea what I have. Stan

Winchester1 · Nov 25, 2012

I sorted my stuff out, put it in cabinets with a label on each drawer/door indicating what is inside.
Not perfect but much better.

My insurance man told me to open every drawer on my toolboxes, cabinets and snap a picture of easch one. If you are robbed it is impossible to remember everything you have and will forget a bunch of stuff when turning in a claim.

The only other way I can think of is to catalog everything you have on your computer. This would take forever for most people.

Royse · Nov 25, 2012

I'm right there with you!
I have heard this sort of thing happens to people after age 30.

JD Seller · Nov 25, 2012

I have a shelf for each major piece of equipment I have. Then the more similar tractors will share a shelf with ones that use the same filters and such things. Then when I buy something I write on the box/bag what it is for and put it on the shelf for that piece of equipment.

I have more trouble with the little things. There was a lumber yard/hardware store that was going out of business. They had the prices market down more each week until everything was gone. I stopped there 2-3 times over their close out sale. I know I bought some good brass garden hose nozzles and extension replacement ends. I can't find them anywhere. I know if I buy more I will then find the ones I already have.

huntingreen2day · Nov 25, 2012

That is the way I am. Looked for an oil can for weeks. Passed right by it nearly every day. Found it sitting on my drill press table. Looked for a relief valve for a John Deere. Knew where I kept it. Looked for hours. Finally gave up. Pulled out a drawer on the cabinet I had looked in a dozen times. It was laying right in front of the drawer. Sometimes I am looking for something I had 10 minutes ago.

Anonymous-0 · Nov 25, 2012

That is unusual, I thought it would be to their advantage to have a claim as low as possible, and they are always looking for an advantage,

But I found the photo beneficial when a vehicle came from a merging lane on my left and was whacked by my truck.Took me to court and lost.Gave the Judge some idea of the narrowness of the road when a truck was placed in the ongoing lane, I could never have drawn a verbal picture.

David G · Nov 25, 2012

My shop is like the Bermuda triangle, tools go in and disappear.

Grampy · Nov 25, 2012

I wake up in a new world every morning !

Kerry50 · Nov 25, 2012

How many times have you heard, "I found it in the last place I looked". Well duh.....LOL

super99 · Nov 25, 2012

It happens twice as often when you are 60

B-Mod · Nov 25, 2012

(quoted from post at 20:39:14 11/25/12) I sorted my stuff out, put it in cabinets with a label on each drawer/door indicating what is inside.
Not perfect but much better.

My insurance man told me to open every drawer on my toolboxes, cabinets and snap a picture of easch one. If you are robbed it is impossible to remember everything you have and will forget a bunch of stuff when turning in a claim.

The only other way I can think of is to catalog everything you have on your computer. This would take forever for most people.

Wish I would have done this! I am in this problem now, I got robbed, I have a hard time remembering what I all had, as it was my old shop that got robbed, I have not done any work out of there for about two years, hard to remember what was where. I HAD tons of tools, now I need to figure out what I had.

JayinNY · Nov 25, 2012

Glad it's not just me! With all the equipment I have to keep running, tools and ect, I'm always looking for something. What get me the most is when I put something away, than need it but can't remember were it is. Or see something every day, than my brother or me need it and I cant find it! Now I put notes on cabinets to identify what's in them that helps a little. lol.

Fergienewbee · Nov 25, 2012

BTDT! I usually put something away so I'll know wher it is. Never see it again. About the only way I can keep tools is to never open the package. My son got me drill bits for Christmas three years ago. I still have them all, except the ones that broke. Good thing most tools aren't rattlesnakes; I'd be a goner!

Larry

old · Nov 25, 2012

Common problem you look for this or that and find what you where looking for a week ago. I try to use things like old fridges to store thing in so I have fewer places to look. On a side note I am still looking for that belt pulley I know I have in my junk pile. I know it is there because I put it there some 20 or so years ago and then piled more on top

Ken Macfarlane · Nov 25, 2012

I bought a bunch of used bolt boxes, the plastic bin type and old library shelving from an army base. The shelves are all grouped by types of stuff. Each piece of equipment has its own bin.

I did the no shelves shove it anywhere for almost 15 years. I couldn't remember where everything thing is now I have more equipment, lot faster now too. Almost finished cleaning my old shop out. Take an arm load everytime I'm down there.

Huskers86 · Nov 25, 2012

(quoted from post at 17:13:44 11/25/12) Does anyone else have a problem keeping stuff from disappearing? One thing that comes to mind, is, I bought a new air filter for my JD. I looked and looked finally ended up putting the old one back in. A few weeks later there it is right in plain sight, in one of my cabinets. Today I was looking for motorcycle parts, and found new lift larm weld on connectors, and new pins. Didn't know I even had them. Just like a early Christmas everytime I go to my cabinets. I should put everything in a pile in the middle of my floor and go throgh it, that way I will haaave a good idea what I have. Stan

I use plastic totes and have designated storage shelving. Works pretty good.

Jim in Ma. · Nov 25, 2012

I never have that problem. Whenever I walk into the shop, I can't remember why I'm there. :-(

John Fulton · Nov 25, 2012

If ya really want to find something, just go back and buy another one, guarentee you will find the first one next day!!!

Kenneth R Ohnstad · Nov 25, 2012

When I moved up here in 97 I lost one of my motorcycle gloves. I built the Garagemahall in 04 and moved into it soon after. When moving across the driveway and unpacking, I kept finding a gauntlet glove.
Now the damn thing is stapled to the wall in the room where the bikes are kept. If I ever find another, I know I will have a pair.
k

BigMarv1085 · Nov 25, 2012

I have most of my tools here at the house but I have 2 barns full down and my parents barns down the road.

js305 · Nov 25, 2012

I know the whereabouts of everything I own....within 50 yards...

730 virgil · Nov 25, 2012

i seem to have that trouble too. except i have help with things getting mislaid. tall kid leaves whatever he was using where he last used it.
i have enough trouble finding stuff i don't need help losing it.

ericlb · Nov 25, 2012

i spend most of my time looking for tools and stuff i just had, i can lose it and never leave the machine im working on, guess im just getting old

JerryS · Nov 25, 2012

I have at least two of just about every kind of tool. I have about a dozen tape measures, a dozen hammers, dozens of screwdrivers. I sharpen up a whole box of marking pencils at a time. I have two DeWalt 18v saws, three DW 18v drills, two recip saws...you get the idea. It's because I generally spend more time looking for a tool than using it. I'm trying to work on the clutter problem by adding space and cabinets and shelves, but have a long way to go.

To compound the problem, I'm a keeper. I hold on to stuff thinking I can use it in a future project. However, when that time comes I can't find it so I go to the store and buy new. Wife and daughter are going to have fun when I kick.

2x4 · Nov 26, 2012

spend a lot of time thinking about the " here after" do ya?

C.R. · Nov 26, 2012

Had to sweat together some copper pipe found the cutter,found the torch found the emmory cloth,COULD NOT find the nearly new roll of silver solder,and tin of flux that I had grrrr, Off to town and back ( about a half hour trip)with a new roll of silver solder and tin of flux.did my sweating job and grabbed one of my storage bins that was supposed to be empty(it had no lable on it) and there was my almost new roll of solder and tin of flux GRRRRR!! so I made darn sure to mark whats on the bin before I put it up on the shelf

Fawteen · Nov 26, 2012

That's what burns me. I have a small shop, 12x24. Do to CRS and space limitations, I keep it pretty organized.

I also (usually) end each day by cleaning and putting everything away even if I'm not done with the project. If not, I do it the next morning before I start.

Even given all that organization, I can lay a tool down in that shop and not be able to spot it 5 minutes later when I need it again. Rags slither over and cover them up, or they jump off the bench and onto the floor, or gremlins grab them and put them in my back pocket.

I must look like a complete idiot, standing then mumbling to myself about losing my frikken mind, patting all my pockets and feeling around my hat brim for that pencil I'm holding in my other hand...

showcrop · Nov 26, 2012

I keep adding shelves and hangers and try to have a place for everything, but I had about an hour's search two weeks ago for one of my backhoe mounting brackets. I searched all through my shop 2X, then in the barn. Finally in the third pass, there it was exactly where it belongs, hanging at eye level. What I can't figure is how someone got in the shop and hung it up there, and back out and drove away, without me hearing them, in the ten minutes that I was in the barn.

Nancy Howell · Nov 26, 2012

The best place to hide something is in plain sight.

Works every time.

Dave in GA · Nov 26, 2012

That's where I hide things and still can't find them.

thesmoothedeere · Nov 26, 2012

Iv'e been looking for a good women ... Now tell me where They Are ?

BUTCH IN NY · Nov 26, 2012

On the subject of looking for things, A number of
years ago, I was going crazy trying to find
something. After about an hour of looking, I had
reached my max. -------off level and really didn't know what to do. I sat on a stool in my
shop and reached out for something, what-I don't
know but right in my hand was what I was looking
for all this time. Unfortunately this is a true
story. I don't have Alzheimers, but probably
wouldn't know it if I did I think.

Mark6005 · Nov 26, 2012

I know that I"ve got something I just dont remember what garage or machine shed its in

NEKS · Nov 26, 2012

You guys got me laughing so hard I am getting weak. Had a 8 roller sprayer pump put away last fall. Never got to use it this spring cause could not find it. One day walked in the barn and there it laid on top of a up side down 5 gallon bucket on the pallet with about 5 or 6 boxs of 2-4D and and cornerstone and others. Looked over it everyday. And the wife always says its right where you left it. That just pisses me off, so don't tell her when I am looking for something.

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