Mark & Juanita wrote in
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I have a dilemma. snip

And I've got an old plasic bucket.

Any odd bolt, nut, screw, nail, or whatever, off of old tools,
cars, wherever, goes in it. When I needs something off the wall, I
look in the bucket. Sometimes I find it, sometimes not. Be a waste
of time trying to organize any of it.


My dad has that bucket for nuts and bolts. I can't imagine the
amount of
time my granddad and I wasted looking for the one nut, bolt or washer
in that bucket that wasn't "too big" or "too small" for a repair job
we were doing on a piece of machinery. Would have saved way more
time to have sorted and organized that bucket than all the times we
went through the bucket sorting it one bolt at a time (yeah, back then
I wasn't thinking either -- I guess I just sort of thought that's how
everybody did things).


Hey! It IS organized! It's in the bucket!

And if I can't find it in about 10 minutes, I know to run down to the
hardware store, and buy exactly what I want. What really frustrates me is
KNOWING I have a box of what I'm looking for, and not being able to find
it. Likely because I put it away 'somewhere safe'.

Picking through the bucket also seems to offer the opportunity to solve a
problem in another way. Sort of a creativity enhancer, if you will.

Patriarch,
who belives that there just might be one heck of an estate sale one day...