aemeijers wrote:
Jon Danniken wrote:

When I need a tool, I buy it. Been doing it this way ever since I
started working with tools in high school, and especially since I
bought my home. They really do tend to add up over the years.



Chuckle. Especially for disorganized people like me. Very frustrating,
knowing I own a certain tool, not being able to find it, and running
out and buying another one to get a job done. I'm 3-4 deep in some
stuff by now. Mostly cheap stuff, thankfully.

I really need to take a week of vacation, have somebody confiscate my
car keys, dsl modem, and satt TV box, and do nothing but sort all this
crap out. But there is always something more interesting to do than
sort stuff. Need me a SWMBO, I guess, since I seem to lack the
nesting gene. I wouldn't expect her to do the work or anything, just
keep prodding me with a stick.

The trick is to just put the tool back in the same place each time. It
doesn't matter if you have your tools scattered in several dozen places
about the house, just make sure that each thing goes back to its home when
you are done with it.

The biggest problem then becomes training yourself to put things away after
a job, but that is a relatively simple 'trick' to learn (certainly easier
than going through everything and organizing them, which often leads to
CFS).

Jon