Where do you put stuff, to be handy?

robinbanks said:
You recently had cause to remove the plastic drawer that houses the M4 bolts and put it next to your work area. The job was interrupted. Some days later you had need of a bolt, but couldn’t find the drawer and performed a different job. Some more days later you completed the original job and returned the drawer as part of the cleanup, but tidying up is an unremarkable event and you had no concrete recollection of returning the drawer to position. Some days later you found the drawer back in position

Not finding the drawer was a remarkable event, as was finding it when the last thing you could remember was not finding it

I’m sure if you put a motion activated camera looking at the sorting system you would be able to find several clips that explained its movements, and the missing teleporting/quantum entangled bolt movements are more simply explained by unremembered activity, or possibly by another occupant gaslighting you into thinking you have dementia; my 7 year old does this to my 9 year old on a daily basis
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Those black bolts are only used for bikes.
I haven't touched any bike at least since December.
The space is only for bolts and nothing else, so I wouldn't need to touch them unless I needed them.
Your theory is not a possible explanation unfortunately.
 
Ihavenojob said:
Every man has a drawer full of "stuff", stuff which will one day be useful- batteries, old screws, padlocks without keys, keys without padlocks, etc etc etc.
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This is very true. Me old ma was needing a CR 2032 battery a few weeks back and I was pretty sure I had some in my man drawer.

Which I did.

With a use by date of 2015 on them :)
 
diy_fun_uk said:
This is very true. Me old ma was needing a CR 2032 battery a few weeks back and I was pretty sure I had some in my man drawer.

Which I did.

With a use by date of 2015 on them :)
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Not the point, the date is irrelevant, the theory of one day that will be useful still exists, sure as eggs are eggs 10 years later they found a use. This strengthens the case for having a useful item drawer.
 
Highway Man said:
Not the point, the date is irrelevant, the theory of one day that will be useful still exists, sure as eggs are eggs 10 years later they found a use. This strengthens the case for having a useful item drawer.
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It's interesting (keeping hold of stuff) and I suppose we all have different approaches. On the telly box a few years back I was watching one of these decluttering shows, so okay this was someone with a serious hoarding issue. Nevertheless, the 'expert' gave a general bit of advice to the homeowner and viewers in general when assessing whether or not to hold on to something that isn't regularly used (excluding stuff with obvious financial and/or sentimental value).

The advice was this. If you've not used the item in the last 12 months and do not anticipate using it in the next 12 months, it can be disposed of.

I remember watching this and thinking 'nah' as for me this would be a rubbish rule, pardon the pun. I'm sometimes doing a task and I'll think 'I need something that can ...' and then I find the very thing to accomplish said task, something I might not have used for years.

The trick is finding a reasonable balance.
 
Highway Man said:
Not the point, the date is irrelevant, the theory of one day that will be useful still exists, sure as eggs are eggs 10 years later they found a use. This strengthens the case for having a useful item drawer.
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I have been following that approach, but I know someone who says he keeps his supplies in the DIY shed.
 
diy_fun_uk said:
It's interesting (keeping hold of stuff) and I suppose we all have different approaches. On the telly box a few years back I was watching one of these decluttering shows, so okay this was someone with a serious hoarding issue. Nevertheless, the 'expert' gave a general bit of advice to the homeowner and viewers in general when assessing whether or not to hold on to something that isn't regularly used (excluding stuff with obvious financial and/or sentimental value).

The advice was this. If you've not used the item in the last 12 months and do not anticipate using it in the next 12 months, it can be disposed of.

I remember watching this and thinking 'nah' as for me this would be a rubbish rule, pardon the pun. I'm sometimes doing a task and I'll think 'I need something that can ...' and then I find the very thing to accomplish said task, something I might not have used for years.

The trick is finding a reasonable balance.
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My brother used to work in a factory where the rule was that anything that hadn't been used for 5 years had to be disposed of.
He gave me a Beta socket set that was otherwise going in the bin.
 
In the 1980's my then employer issued an edict that all 'squirrel stores' had to cleared from buildings and disposed of appropriately... Less than a year there came a request for numbers of equipment parts to build some test kit, of course by then no one had such components surplus and so the company had to buy in such bits and pieces!
 
It’s ok, with the money they made from selling(/not having to maintain) unused storage buildings, they were able to buy the parts needed :)
 
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