It must pay to be organized. While getting some wrenchs out to take to fall MVWC meeting, I found my welder. It has been missing two or three years and I had concluded someone had purloined it. Eureka my faith in mankind is restored. I really didn't think anyone would venture into my shop without a guide.

You, like me, must suffer from HSS!!!
Horizontal Stacking Syndrome

Or TMS - too much stuff.

I knew I had to do some organizing when I was downstairs in the garage and I heard several containers hit the upstairs loft floor and scatter their contents!

I am finally organized, all I had to do was put up another building.  A building that I would only bring into the important stuff.   The good stuff, actually worth moving.  Is 70 feet from the other shop, the slightly cluttered one, and wore a path through the grass from one to the other.   Those new steel shelves sure do hold a quantity of stuff!   A few years back, come fall I was looking around for  my chain saw.   Went thru the shop, the barn, the storage shed, and the basement.  Went into the shop at night with a flash light and looking down behind things, believing I had accidently covered it up.  Nothing.  I cut a lot of firewood, do my own brush trimming, and my saw gets used at least once a month.  Went into the shop on the ground level, on my knees, where I could that is, looking for a hidey hold the saw had been slid into, nothing.   With cool weather pushing me, I went into the city and bought a near identical saw at my favorite pawn.   Ran good, starts just as easy as the old one.   Went into the shop to get the spare chain from the first one, where I hung it on the wall behind the drill press.  Found myself standing on the handle of the other saw, been hiding in plain sight.   They are virtually alike, so can cannibalize now if needed.  I just figure the first saw knew it was coming time to head into the woods and wanted to sit that season out. 

Quote from: Bill Houghton on October 12, 2015, 02:30:54 PM
Or TMS - too much stuff.

TMS is a myth!  There's no such thing.

My plan of organizing the leftovers of a 60 year old junkyard was to put all hand tools in a schoolbus, power tools in one half of a house trailer, furniture in the other half, and possibles in 2 semi trailers. I now have 3 long buses, one short, 3 bread vans, and still have stuff under tarps, tin, and piles. Since I first found this site I have learned that the first bus needs to be gone thru and sorted by woodworking, automotive, farm, and unknown. It keeps me amused. I have sold a few thing at swap meets but am constantly amazed how another vendor can have the same thing in worse condition but get twice as much. Could be my natural distaste of salesmanship.

Quote from: jimwrench on October 12, 2015, 01:42:15 PM
It must pay to be organized. While getting some wrenchs out to take to fall MVWC meeting, I found my welder. It has been missing two or three years and I had concluded someone had purloined it. Eureka my faith in mankind is restored. I really didn't think anyone would venture into my shop without a guide.

Just make sure your liability insurance is fully paid up. lol

Insurance check in the male. Have wrenchs packed and ready to go to El Dorado; just waiting for the west coast component of our tag team wrenching buying team to arrive. We set side by side at these auctions and have been known to bid against each (not purposely) So much for slight nods,finger wags etc. When I tell people I,m going to a wench auction they look at me like they think that must be illegal or at least immoral. I can generally get the point across that its a wrench auction which is perfectly legal and which is much more appropriate for a octenagenarian to attend. Spell check says I misspelled octenaragenian but you can guess what I mean.