Spare parts Horder?? Maybe
 

Ok, was fooling around in my garage working on lighting problem and I realized I have lot of??? well stuff.

If any of my fellow TOTVs posters in pinch needs part I may have saved give me shout. I have some circuit board parts I saved over the years also Here sample of spare parts. I doubt I will ever use up all of them.

That's not much stuff. It's all a matter of comparison.

I donated stuff litter that to a local high school robotics group.

Cool stuff. There's a few of us out there! Nothing worse than throwing something away and three weeks later you're having to go to Ace or Lowes for that certain item.:ho:

No man can ever have enough stuff.
I still haven't forgiven my wife for all the wood ends, and things that 'will be useful one day' that I had to throw away seven years ago when we moved to our present house.
I still miss every piece! :cryin2:

One mans junk is another mans treasure

I hate when I buy a part, and then find out later that I had that part tucked away in my garage somewhere.

It’s so sad going to estate and garage sales and seeing a man’s whole life worth of stuff basically being given away for a few bucks. Never buy new tools or fishing stuff in the Villages, you can easily get all you will ever need, and then some, for next to nothing.

And some day, hopefully not anytime soon, all of our stuff will get recycled to some future Villagers.

We have TENS OF THOUSANDS of screws, nuts, bolts, and nails all categorized by material, type and size into jars in the man-cave. I totally get that these things all have use and function and it's great to have some handy. But we don't need more than 100 of each.

I feel you pain, but when you do need one you’re probably glad to have them. I just can’t throw away 80 out of hundred either. I’ve still got boxes yet to unpack full of well, stuff.

For a very clever lady, you just don't understand how it works.
Suppose you needed a 101 pieces of anything!

What is this word "need" people keep bandying about?

Yes I have a “hoarder” for a spouse. For example, 8 motorcycles, one of them works, several, scooters, they all work, a “workshop” up north that covers 900 square feet of basement. So much stuff unsorted that we buy another clamp or whatever because he can’t find any of the 12 he already bought, under everything. It’s not that he is messy, it’s that he is on the go all the time and has little time left over time for sorting. I just mark off his area as a “no go unless life depends on it” place and we’re both happy.

On the up side, whenever I want something, and I need it right away… well it takes time to find… but for sure it’s there somewhere in the basement “workshop”.

The worst part is starting a project down here knowing you have something you need,
only to go out in your garage and realize you left what you need up north. :cry:

Happens to me all the time in both directions. Just did some 12 volt electric connections up north and realized my soldering iron is in the garage in the villages.

Doesn’t matter how many screws you have, the job always needs one that is a different size.

I have lots of ‘treasure” in charging cables or cables in general.

Same here. I got car mechanic tools, wood tools, hundreds of different size screws/bolts/nuts, but you never know when you will need a 1/2 open end wrench, or a 1/4” wood screw. I hate to run to Lowe’s every time I need something that I might have given away

I have no use for any of it but I am impressed at how neat and orderly you keep it all.

I have a large battery from a lawn mower that I dumped.
Can anyone tell me where to get rid of the battery.

Carry it up the stairs and store it in the garage attic while you are still young.

I have a lot of "stuff" too. But when I need something I can never seem to find it, so I go out and by new "stuff".

Yes, exactly how hubby felt that is why I think we have more stuff than HomeDepot in the “workshop”. Do you have any idea how many hex and Allen keys sizes (metric and imperial) there are? I don’t think we are missing any.

I'd send a DM to The VillageTinker and offer to buy one from him. He has extras of EVERYTHING :)

Recycle
Lead acid - Auto Zone
Lithium Ion - Lowes or Home Depot

[QUOTE=So much stuff unsorted that we buy another clamp or whatever because he can’t find any of the 12 he already bought, under everything. It’s not that he is messy, it’s that he is on the go all the time and has little time left over time for sorting.[/QUOTE]

So true. You need an inventory management system but you have to start it way back 10 years ago when you started hoarding/collecting stuff. It can just be a simple text file which shows the item and its location and then use its search facility when you need something. The trick of course is that when you name it you have to use a name that you will remember when you want to find it.

Great suggestion, I’m trying to sort some as he cannot help. I manage about 30 minutes at a time. The other thing is, since I don’t know what the things are I Google them and also take a picture of them where I put them. Works for my art supplies.

Guaranteed you're missing a 10mm socket...

Most people are needy :22yikes:

Don’t get me started on metric!!:swear: