Dont see anything wrong with that, just a bit mixed up that,s all.

I have several boxes like that, full of things that will come in “handy” some day, assuming I live long enough, somewhat doubtful at this late stage.

Should I throw the whole lot out ? No way, I began this collection when I was only a lad and we grew up together. We are now like twins, not sure which is the better looking.

On 12 December 2024 at 13:33 bernard towers Said:

But when you are at work and you go to the stores you just open the right drawer and there it is!. Why dont we do it at home????

Not enough drawers!

Russell

I sorted all my nuts and bolts out into type and sizes, store them in plastic seal bags and then plastic ice cream tubs. It took a few hours, but its done now and I reap the benefit with quickly finding that the bolt I want isn’t there!

Andrew.

On 12 December 2024 at 14:14 Russell Eberhardt Said:

On 12 December 2024 at 13:33 bernard towers Said:

But when you are at work and you go to the stores you just open the right drawer and there it is!. Why dont we do it at home????

Not enough drawers!

Russell

More a matter of hoarding festering crap like in the photo.

Best way to organise it is to place carefully in the bin.

Yes, I have followed this advice with lots of my own junk. No, I’ve never needed any of it since,

I mounted my ‘Warco’ sheet-metal former on a trolley with four of those umpteen-drawers cabinets nested between bench-top and a floor above the castors.

The sort of hard plastic drawers whose very brittle handles easily break off.  The boxes themselves designed to trip the contents up to lodge in the case shelf, preventing opening the drawer.

One day I may even finish labelling them by letter-number: A to D for the cases, 1 to n for the drawers in each. Accompanied by a spreadsheet of contents, so allowing the contents of individual drawers being changed over time.

Otherwise…..

I still spend more time looking for a tool than using it, or discovering the number of a screw of certain size in stock is normally (n-1) where n is the number needed. So buy a new pack of 50 from Toolstation then find the nth some days later in another box of accumulated curios. When looking for something else.

Split it into nuts, washers, bolts, set-screws etc. – I mean you’ll know what class of item you will be wanting when the time comes to look, right?

I keep ‘old’/obsolete fasteners & hardware in boxes, buckets etc, and tip ’em into a big tray to inspect the contents – when you find the thing you want just tip it all back in it’s container again – the trick is to have a big enough tray so that everything can be spread out easily..