Lost!

[muddy]

The other day I spent a half hour aggressively looking and maybe yelling to find a tool I had ordered off Amazon.....it hadn't even been delivered yet

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[hickory n Steel]

I keep most all my tape on pegboard over my benches is all 3 shops.  Almost always multiple rolls, or partial rolls.  Any 3m tape that comes with all the tools I buy gets kept.  Non 3m goes into the auction pile.

What I can't find is pens.  Never where I need them.  Tape measures somewhat but I have taken to putting multiples in every tool box so I can usually find one.

I keep a Fisher bullet pen in my pocket organizer which is in my pocket at all times so I don't have to worry there, but carpenter pencils I'm often looking for.
I have a bunch in my drawer but don't want to just grab a new one every time and eventually loose them all.

[Uncle Buck]

The arrow T50's, I mostly just end up needing the staple gun for Halloween decorations but I occasionally need it for other things so I keep the staples and staple gun in the garage instead of in the shed with the Halloween stuff.
The problem is I can never find the staples when I need them, i always put the damn things somewhere that I'll be able to find them but can never remember where that is when I go looking.
When I eventually find them I put 'em somewhere else I think I'll be able to find them and it's the same situation next time.

I once heard somebody say you should store a tool the very first place you thought to look when you needed it, because that is where your brain expects it to be and you'll never have trouble finding it again.

I inherited about 10 different staple guns and also a bunch of different boxes of staples. I put the lot of them in the same drawer. I always store stuff like that together. All plumbing tools together etc.

[34Ply]

 
the tool I can't find is the tool I need.

[bonneyman]

The other day I spent a half hour aggressively looking and maybe yelling to find a tool I had ordered off Amazon.....it hadn't even been delivered yet

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That's nothing. I regularly walk around and start yelling at something, then forget what I'm yelling about.   

[Elroy]

the tool I can't find is the tool I need.

that's Elroy's problem as well  ..............................we try to minimize the frequency of occurrence.

[muddy]

Lost my 1/4 flex head ratchet at work. I swear forklifts eat tools.

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