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Old 12-05-2011, 09:15 AM
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Originally Posted by quirky3 View Post
Yes, I remember saving lots of things for re-use. My Mom had a wooden "button box" that I loved to go through to see all the different kinds of buttons. My Dad saved scraps of wood from small building projects, and they always came in handy later on. I still do that today!
My dad was a hoarder of small parts, and as a result I can't remember the last time I had to go to a hardware store for nuts and bolts, etc. I have 3 generations of tools in my garage, from my materrnal grandfather, my dad and myself.

My mom always told my dad, "I hope I'm the one that goes first, because I don't want to clean all this stuff out." It didn't turn out that way.