What Did You Buy Today?

[jwmay]

I bought my saw a new fancy stand and table extensions. But I guess I took this picture before the extensions got put on.

 

[Janderso]

One day, some day…. I will get me a big building. Cluttered small workshop is getting to me. But, I still know it could always be worse.

Boy isn’t that the truth, it could always be worse.
I watch videos of some very talented machinists in tiny little clutered spaces.
Very few of us have our dream shop.
I’m thankful for what I have, there will always be a bigger, better space.

 

[snoopdog]

Boy isn’t that the truth, it could always be worse.
I watch videos of some very talented machinists in tiny little clutered spaces.
Very few of us have our dream shop.
I’m thankful for what I have, there will always be a bigger, better space.

And a faster horse

 

[Bi11Hudson]

One day, some day…. I will get me a big building. Cluttered small workshop is getting to me. But, I still know it could always be worse.

"Stuff" accumulates to fill 125% of the available space. A known law of the universe, it may have been Murphy, maybe someone else. I bought the house next door to store "stuff". When that filled up, I built a barn to store more stuff. Nowadays I have to walk around boxes in the residence still. Both the storage house and the barn are overflowing.

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[Janderso]

"Stuff" accumulates to fill 125% of the available space. A known law of the universe, it may have been Murphy, maybe someone else. I bought the house next door to store "stuff". When that filled up, I built a barn to store more stuff. Nowadays I have to walk around boxes in the residence still. Both the storage house and the barn are overflowing.

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Gosh Bill, sounds like you may have too much stuff, or you need to buy the house on the other side?

 

[BGHansen]

"Stuff" accumulates to fill 125% of the available space. A known law of the universe, it may have been Murphy, maybe someone else. I bought the house next door to store "stuff". When that filled up, I built a barn to store more stuff. Nowadays I have to walk around boxes in the residence still. Both the storage house and the barn are overflowing.

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[Bi11Hudson]

I often refer to (and watch) George Carlin doing his stuff about stuff. I recall the first time he did it on live TV, I was rolling in the floor, literally. But I don't think he originated the comment. He did a very good job expanding the concept into a skit. But didn't originate it. 'We' often joked around about it when preparing to set sail in the late '60s. It was old hat then. The 'black gang' had a 3X3 locker and a seabag to keep their stuff in. The comment we used in those days was 105%. Any number greater than 100% fits the bill.

Gosh Bill, sounds like you may have too much stuff, or you need to buy the house on the other side?

The house on the other side is a little newer than mine, built in the ~'20s. And has a leakey roof at least 4 years it has been empty. With the price of housing these days, I would have to take a mortgage. Being in my 70s now, who in their right mind would give me a 30 year mortgage? And would still need to fix the roof. . . Being on SS, there's no way to pay cash, and I don't like the neighborhood the last 25 years or so anyway. I have been here pushing 50 years(1975). . . I am a pack rat, have been all my life. And this last time married a woman of the same disposition. A 'yankee' to be sure, but a similar background to my own. A parent who came through the depression of the '30s. Saving every piece of wire and scrap of paper. The way things are going, we may have to do it again. And if I had enough cash to pay cash, I would buy a place out in the woods with room for more stuff. . . There is no such thing as too much stuff. Not when it's books and tools and . . .

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[Janderso]

I often refer to (and watch) George Carlin doing his stuff about stuff. I recall the first time he did it on live TV, I was rolling in the floor, literally. But I don't think he originated the comment. He did a very good job expanding the concept into a skit. But didn't originate it. 'We' often joked around about it when preparing to set sail in the late '60s. It was old hat then. The 'black gang' had a 3X3 locker and a seabag to keep their stuff in. The comment we used in those days was 105%. Any number greater than 100% fits the bill.

The house on the other side is a little newer than mine, built in the ~'20s. And has a leakey roof at least 4 years it has been empty. With the price of housing these days, I would have to take a mortgage. Being in my 70s now, who in their right mind would give me a 30 year mortgage? And would still need to fix the roof. . . Being on SS, there's no way to pay cash, and I don't like the neighborhood the last 25 years or so anyway. I have been here pushing 50 years(1975). . . I am a pack rat, have been all my life. And this last time married a woman of the same disposition. A 'yankee' to be sure, but a similar background to my own. A parent who came through the depression of the '30s. Saving every piece of wire and scrap of paper. The way things are going, we may have to do it again. And if I had enough cash to pay cash, I would buy a place out in the woods with room for more stuff. . . There is no such thing as too much stuff. Not when it's books and tools and . . .

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I had a neighbor who was always getting ready to have a garage sale. He had tables with all kinds of stuff. He covered the tables at night and when it rained.
I was going through his stuff one day, his name was Jim, I said Jim, why are you keeping a broken watch band? He says, you never know when you may need a link or two.
This was in 1987. He passed away in 2015. He was still working on that garage sale.

I should add, it all went up in smoke during the, Camp Fire, November 8th, 2018.

 

[Aukai]

Blake Co-Ax indicator "Very good working condition" I hope so for 130.00....

 

[erikmannie]

I bought 3 coin batteries for my Miller autodarkening welding hoods. The batteries in these 2 helmets have been dead for a while.

I have a very cheap autodarkening Lincoln electric welding hood that requires no battery (it is solar powered). The Lincoln helmet gets chosen about 90% of the time because it always works!