I have a dilemma. I have collected loose nuts, bolts, screws, nails and
all kinds of hardware while cleaning up my shop. I have them in a
coffee can. Now I need to label this can. Since this hardware is not
sorted, do I label this assorted hardware, unsorted hardware or
unassorted hardware? I am so confused.
-bl

unsorted assorted hardware

you're nuts and screws, loose


"bubbalouie" wrote in message
. 150...
I have a dilemma. I have collected loose nuts, bolts, screws, nails and
all kinds of hardware while cleaning up my shop. I have them in a
coffee can. Now I need to label this can. Since this hardware is not
sorted, do I label this assorted hardware, unsorted hardware or
unassorted hardware? I am so confused.
-bl

bubbalouie wrote:
I have a dilemma. I have collected loose nuts, bolts, screws, nails
and
all kinds of hardware while cleaning up my shop. I have them in a
coffee can. Now I need to label this can. Since this hardware is
not
sorted, do I label this assorted hardware, unsorted hardware or
unassorted hardware? I am so confused.
-bl

i just labeled all of mine "maxwell house". i have about 27 of them,
and i spend many a happy hour listening to the oldies radio station and
picking through unsorted, unassorted, miscelaneous little pieces of
metal and plastic and.......ick! yuck!.....what the heck was
that?!?!?!?!

martin caskey
millers island, maryland

In article ,
(JMWEBER987) wrote:

unsorted assorted hardware

Mine is labelled: HELLBOX

bubbalouie asked the following:
I have a dilemma. I have collected loose nuts, bolts, screws, nails and
all kinds of hardware while cleaning up my shop. I have them in a
coffee can. Now I need to label this can. Since this hardware is not
sorted, do I label this assorted hardware, unsorted hardware or
unassorted hardware? I am so confused.
-bl

I have a container like that. It will never get sorted because there
is not enough of any one type of screw, nut, bolt or whatchamacallit
to separate into its own container. I call it my "whatnut jar". When
I need some particular item of hardware, I just dump it out, sort
through it, find the one or two items that I need and then scoop it
all back into the container.

You would think that eventually the container would become empty but
there is always that couple of odd items that I throw in there to keep
it replenished.

bubbalouie wrote:
I have a dilemma. I have collected loose nuts, bolts, screws, nails and
all kinds of hardware while cleaning up my shop. I have them in a
coffee can. Now I need to label this can. Since this hardware is not
sorted, do I label this assorted hardware, unsorted hardware or
unassorted hardware? I am so confused.
-bl
I label it: To Do

In article ,
bubbalouie wrote:
I have a dilemma. I have collected loose nuts, bolts, screws, nails and
all kinds of hardware while cleaning up my shop. I have them in a
coffee can. Now I need to label this can. Since this hardware is not
sorted, do I label this assorted hardware, unsorted hardware or
unassorted hardware? I am so confused.
-bl

To complicate the issue, the ones with threads on them are 'screw-tible';
the ones w/o threads are 'in-screw-tible'.

Best thing to do, is get *two* more coffee cans. and line them up in a row.
The (empty) one on the right gets labled 'MIS D'. The (empty) one on the
left is 'MIS B'. Whereupon, it is 'obvious' that the full one is 'misc'.

On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 11:48:49 GMT, bubbalouie
wrote:

I have a dilemma. I have collected loose nuts, bolts, screws, nails and
all kinds of hardware while cleaning up my shop. I have them in a
coffee can. Now I need to label this can. Since this hardware is not
sorted, do I label this assorted hardware, unsorted hardware or
unassorted hardware? I am so confused.
-bl

Label it "I was too cheap to buy one of these"
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=92226

bubbalouie wrote in message .150...
I have a dilemma. I have collected loose nuts, bolts, screws, nails and
all kinds of hardware while cleaning up my shop. I have them in a
coffee can. Now I need to label this can. Since this hardware is not
sorted, do I label this assorted hardware, unsorted hardware or
unassorted hardware? I am so confused.
-bl

Label it "trash" and put it by the curb.

bubbalouie wrote:

I have a dilemma. I have collected loose nuts, bolts, screws, nails and
all kinds of hardware while cleaning up my shop. I have them in a
coffee can. Now I need to label this can. Since this hardware is not
sorted, do I label this assorted hardware, unsorted hardware or
unassorted hardware? I am so confused.
-bl
hardware in a configuration that is not quite entirely unlike oragnized

On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 19:24:23 GMT, mac davis
wrote:

On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 11:48:49 GMT, bubbalouie
wrote:

I have a dilemma. I have collected loose nuts, bolts, screws, nails and
all kinds of hardware while cleaning up my shop. I have them in a
coffee can. Now I need to label this can. Since this hardware is not
sorted, do I label this assorted hardware, unsorted hardware or
unassorted hardware? I am so confused.
-bl

Label it "I was too cheap to buy one of these"
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=92226


30 bins wouldn't even scratch the surface of my hardware stash, let
alone the unsorted stuff....

How about this?

"**** To Be Sold At My Estate Sale".

At least that's where I see a lot of cans full of "assorted"
nuts/screws/washers/nails that should have been pitched a
long while ago.

UA100

On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 11:48:49 GMT, bubbalouie
wrote:

I have a dilemma. I have collected loose nuts, bolts, screws, nails and
all kinds of hardware while cleaning up my shop. I have them in a
coffee can. Now I need to label this can. Since this hardware is not
sorted, do I label this assorted hardware, unsorted hardware or
unassorted hardware? I am so confused.
-bl


"Gluing Weight"

Barry

Unisaw A100 wrote:
How about this?

"**** To Be Sold At My Estate Sale".

LOL!

At least that's where I see a lot of cans full of "assorted"
nuts/screws/washers/nails that should have been pitched a
long while ago.

UA100

mac davis wrote in
:

On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 11:48:49 GMT, bubbalouie
wrote:

I have a dilemma. I have collected loose nuts, bolts, screws, nails and
all kinds of hardware while cleaning up my shop. I have them in a
coffee can. Now I need to label this can. Since this hardware is not
sorted, do I label this assorted hardware, unsorted hardware or
unassorted hardware? I am so confused.
-bl

Label it "I was too cheap to buy one of these"
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=92226

LOL!!! That's what started this!!! I just bought these boxes and was
trying to get them organized!!!!

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=44625

-bl

How about this?

"**** To Be Sold At My Estate Sale".

And if labeling space is at a premium, just delete all but the first word.

Lee


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Mon, Nov 29, 2004, 11:48am (EST+5)
(bubbalouie) burbled:
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.



JOAT
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind dont
matter, and those who matter dont mind.
- Dr Seuss

bubbalouie writes:


LOL!!! That's what started this!!! I just bought these boxes and was
trying to get them organized!!!!

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=44625

You're gonna love them. Greatest non-motorized dust collectors in the world. I
got a slew of two different sizes nearly 20 years ago, and spend as much time
cleaning them as using them. Sit some in a window. They do a fine job of
collecting dead blue bottle flies, too.

Charlie Self
"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity
has made them good." H. L. Mencken

Charlie Self wrote:

You're gonna love them. Greatest non-motorized dust collectors in the world. I
got a slew of two different sizes nearly 20 years ago, and spend as much time
cleaning them as using them. Sit some in a window. They do a fine job of
collecting dead blue bottle flies, too.

Not to mention, spider webs.
Joe

Charlie Self wrote:
You're gonna love them. Greatest non-motorized dust collectors in the world.

Whereas, in my shop, I have the greatest motorized dust collector: A
motorcycle.

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 03:54:56 -0500, (J T) wrote:

Mon, Nov 29, 2004, 11:48am (EST+5)
(bubbalouie) burbled:
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).



JOAT
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind dont
matter, and those who matter dont mind.
- Dr Seuss

Mark & Juanita wrote in
:

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...

In article ,
patriarch wrote:

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.

LOL... isn't THAT the truth. My SWMBO calls that "constructive
procrastination." That is, when a piece appears to be usable in another
repair altogether.
Working on the mower..heyyy THIS might work on the dryer I was trying to
fix...and the original trip to the shed was to repair a screen door.

I have heard this kinda thing happens to some people.

Rob

sandman wrote in
:

In article ,
patriarch wrote:

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.

LOL... isn't THAT the truth. My SWMBO calls that "constructive
procrastination." That is, when a piece appears to be usable in
another repair altogether.
Working on the mower..heyyy THIS might work on the dryer I was trying
to fix...and the original trip to the shed was to repair a screen
door.

I have heard this kinda thing happens to some people.


Some people describe it as lack of focus. Those people could be described
as narrow-minded. ;-)

Patriarch

On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 18:12:24 -0500, sandman wrote:

In article ,
patriarch wrote:

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.

LOL... isn't THAT the truth. My SWMBO calls that "constructive
procrastination." That is, when a piece appears to be usable in another
repair altogether.
Working on the mower..heyyy THIS might work on the dryer I was trying to
fix...and the original trip to the shed was to repair a screen door.


I can sort of see that. The problem was that when we were picking
through the bucket, that windrower, or that combine, or that disc had to be
fixed *now*. What often happened was that we would go through the bucket,
couldn't find *the* bolt or nut, and granddad still wound up making a trip
into town to buy one.

I have heard this kinda thing happens to some people.

Rob