Question for the dads out there: if we - with preparation, of course, steeling ourselves and approaching the task with resolve - if we throw away that container of random old nuts, bolts and screws. Do we ever recover from that, emotionally, or do we just live with its loss?
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in reply to mhoye • • •I was more attached to my grandfather's sockets and wrenches, many redundant, not all of good quality. It took an act of courage to let (most of them) go.
My nuts and bolts collection is frustrating me. It never has the part I want anymore. Might be time to part with it as well.
Goiterzan/Amygdalai Lama
in reply to mhoye • • •I mean, I have acquired some screws and bolts, but I never have the nut I need since the divorce 😈😀
Federico Mena Quintero
in reply to mhoye • • •I think it's like knowing when to take microwave popcorn out of the oven. If more than N time passes between useful picks from the container, you can throw it out.
(I seem to have exhausted all the useful bolt/nut pairs from such container, and all that remains is things that don't fit anywhere. I should really throw it out.)
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Stewart Russell
in reply to mhoye • • •we recover, but the universe immediately creates a need for one of the fasteners just thrown away. So a trip to one of the awful identical* hardware counters at Rona/Home Depot/Canadian Tire will be required. Either way they're going to take up psychic space.
*: I'm pretty sure all those fastener aisles are a franchise, and are uniquely awful in Ontario because square drive. Readers in the US can be smug about ACE Hardware. Readers in Kitchener can be smug because they have Spaenaur
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in reply to mhoye • • •I have your answer:
Based on empirical evidence (I left behind a few tins of assorted hardware 20 years ago when we moved halfway around the world) you do not get over this. It's a mortal blow that kills slowly.
Don't do it. It's just one bucket.
Neal Wilson ✅
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in reply to mhoye • • •Moved all* my old bolts and screws to an old tackle box.
Pros: Organized!
No longer "box of old useless shit" but "box that saves us a $50 trip to Mitre 10";
I get a new tackle box;)
Cons: it's bloody heavy.
*Possibly not all of them.
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in reply to mhoye • • •Is this like the cookie tin full of grandma’s buttons?
(We inherited multiple coffee tins full of the previous homeowner’s random nuts, bolts, and screws. We’ve been meaning to sort them for twenty years…)
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in reply to JP • • •This is the way. Label tape printers = an incantation to invoke an ordered universe.
Dan Fixes Coin-Ops
in reply to mhoye • • •nope, we sort it all into neat separated boxes, organized by length, diameter, thread, application and drive type
Except the slot-drive screws, which can be safely filed into the recycling
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in reply to Frang :veripawed4: • • •If you didn't throw it out, you would have the need for it.
It's "Quantum" or something.
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in reply to mhoye • • •Extending Mizuta Masahide:
Barn's burned down
now I can see the moon
(and pluck hardware from the ashes)
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in reply to mhoye • • •might be a bit personal, and I don't want to hijack the thread...but...how about some photos?
Of your random nuts, bolts, screws, nails and assorted fasteners container?
Darren Tuer
in reply to mhoye • • •Have you sourced all common size screws and bolts in your measurement system of choice (imperial/metric) and have adequate coverage of possible necessary lengths, thread pitch and drive types all labelled and sorted? Then no problem-go for it-you won’t notice the loss.
Otherwise….
lol.
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