On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:10:28 -0500, "Existential Angst"
wrote:

"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
...

Steve B wrote:

A 5# box, which I estimate holds about 1,000, cost $14 -- a price diff
of
a
factor of 10!

I have friggin boxes and boxes and jars and jars of fasteners. Just
because
I'm too cheap to pay what they want for ten of them. But when I need
something, I go to the bins rather than make a run to the hardware store.
And if I do have to run for fasteners, I buy them by the box and have a
stock of them.


I hit the local scrap metal yard first. They have a few tons of
surplus hardware they sell for $1.50 a pound.

You are blessed.
The scrap yards by me pitch *everything* in 30yd containers, to be hauled
away.
Sheeit, they won't even save pristine 1x3 alum bar, much less save hardware.


I just bought (100) 1/2" x 4" "Redheads" from one of my surplus dealers.
$1.50 a pound. There are 7 to the pound.

Now Im good for another 6 months or so. Though I wish I could have
bought one of the 55 gallon drums they came out of..

Gunner

Whenever a Liberal utters the term "Common Sense approach"....grab your
wallet, your ass, and your guns because the sombitch is about to do
something damned nasty to all three of them.