Score after 6 years

[RC Storick]

While hunting envelops for the overseas orders I ran into the materials from the last shirt run of July 2006. I lifted up the pile and found a envelope that was unopened. Inside was 40.00 worth of micro fasteners I lost. I am so happy! That's never happend to me before. I totally forgot about them. I must have brought them back from the Post Office and never looked there again.

[Bob Hunt]

Fascinating...

Bob Hunt 

[Scott Hartford]

No, fastenating.....

[Larry Fruits]

Sparky,
 I recently did a similar thing. I had been thinking of getting a cross feed vice for the drill press. I have been accused of not being a real fast thinker, so this process moved slowly over a couple year span.
 Well, about a month ago I was cleaning up and rearranging the shop to make room for a new workbench and guess what I found? Yep a brand new, still in the box, cross feed vice with the sales slip still attached. Bought it 7 years ago.......... Guess I need to clean the shop more frequently.

 Larry    

[jim welch]

Ironic...Larry when I was digging thru my shop for the props I recently sold you I found my brand new in the box pana vise and a brand new mitsutoya veenier caliper circa two years old!I think I got altzheimer's but I really don't remember......geez!

[Paul Taylor]

I bought some flexible spreaders a like for putting on bondo at home depot. Lost them in the shop.

[Randy Ryan]

Amazing how we "put stuff where we can find it".......................duh

[MarcusCordeiro]

It could have been a winning lottery ticket....

Marcus

[john e. holliday]

I only wish on the winning lottery ticket.  But, just a couple of weeks ago found a package of glow plugs I had won off the bay.   That had to have been a year or so ago.

[Chuck_Smith]

The Lottery is a tax on people who are bad at math.

[Larry Fruits]

Jim,
 I bought a new pair of adjustable wrenches a few years ago. I kept them in the original packaging for easy storage. I used them frequently and always kept them in the same place in the shop. Well sure enough one day they were missing. Looked off and on for over two years to find them with no luck. Got to the point I replaced them. Then one day while looking for something for my brother, there were the original wrenches right where I always kept them still in their original package. Left them there so I would know right where they were at when I needed them again. A few weeks later I had a use for them, went to get them and what the he**, they were gone. Have been looking for them for over a year now and I have no clue where they are. Beginning to think my house has ghosts and they are playing tricks on me.

 Larry   

[MarcusCordeiro]

Jim,
 I bought a new pair of adjustable wrenches a few years ago. I kept them in the original packaging for easy storage. I used them frequently and always kept them in the same place in the shop. Well sure enough one day they were missing. Looked off and on for over two years to find them with no luck. Got to the point I replaced them. Then one day while looking for something for my brother, there were the original wrenches right where I always kept them still in their original package. Left them there so I would know right where they were at when I needed them again. A few weeks later I had a use for them, went to get them and what the he**, they were gone. Have been looking for them for over a year now and I have no clue where they are. Beginning to think my house has ghosts and they are playing tricks on me.

 Larry   

Larry

That's a pretty good story... Don't forget to let us know when you find them...

Marcus

[Larry Fruits]

Marcus,

 Will do, but I am not going to recommend any one hold their breath.

 Larry

[MarcusCordeiro]

Marcus,

 Will do, but I am not going to recommend any one hold their breath.

 Larry

 

You know, and when you are building and something disappears from the bench ?? Like, where's my knife or where's that part I need to glue now??

It's the goblins...

Marcus

[andreas johansson]

I have been like this since childhood, guess I was born with Alzheimers Recently i found a box full of unused control line wire and some unused fuel tanks

[Larry Fruits]

You know, and when you are building and something disappears from the bench ?? Like, where's my knife or where's that part I need to glue now??

It's the goblins...

Marcus

Marcus,
 I think some people call those "Senior Moments". I don't mind having them, it's just that they happen so frequently that bothers me.

 Larry
 

[Will Hinton]

I don't remember having any senior moments.

[Steve Helmick]

The surest way to find a missing item is to buy or make a new one. Happens every time. That's not really a bad thing, and it has resulted in my having a set of tools in the shop and a set in the toolbox that goes to the flying field. And of course, I have my big toolbox and rollaway in the garage...and the big toolbox and rollaway that I brought home from work when I retired from the machining business. I think I've got all my bases covered...    Steve

[Bill Little]

Over the years I have had two Solingen razor planes walk out of my basement shop........... with the last one a Master Airscrew plane walked out with it..........  have gone completely taken every thing out and looked through every inch of the shop, even my wife helped.  Ended up buying a new Solingen from a buddy here on the forum.

I won't go into my wife's habit of "putting it somewhere safe".  So safe she can't find it!

BIG Bear
RNMM/AMM

[MarcusCordeiro]

Over the years I have had two Solingen razor planes walk out of my basement shop........... with the last one a Master Airscrew plane walked out with it..........  have gone completely taken every thing out and looked through every inch of the shop, even my wife helped.  Ended up buying a new Solingen from a buddy here on the forum.

I won't go into my wife's habit of "putting it somewhere safe".  So safe she can't find it!

BIG Bear
RNMM/AMM

Bill

The wife issue is critical...
Mine doesn't even touch my model stuff.
But sometimes only she can find that shirt I love to wear...

You guys know: "Hon, have you seen my shirt?"

Marcus

[Larry Fruits]

I'm telling ya guys, it's the ghosts havin' fun with us.

 Larry

[Dick Pacini]

My flying handle went into hiding and I still can't find it.  I bought a new one, thinking surely the old one will turn up now, but it hasn't yet.

[Robert Schroeder]

I used to know where everything was in my shop even though it was a total mess.  My dear wife decided to rearrange my shop and put everything in the place it should be located.  That being done, I can NOT find a single thing!  The shop has been rearranged again since it is no longer a garage.  I still can't find anything but there are things turning up I didn't know I had.  I hate looking for an hour and a half to find a piece of 600 sandpaper.

Bob

[MarcusCordeiro]

I used to know where everything was in my shop even though it was a total mess.  My dear wife decided to rearrange my shop and put everything in the place it should be located.  That being done, I can NOT find a single thing!  The shop has been rearranged again since it is no longer a garage.  I still can't find anything but there are things turning up I didn't know I had.  I hate looking for an hour and a half to find a piece of 600 sandpaper.

Bob

Like I said, the wife issue is critical...,

Marcus

[Larry Fruits]

Larry

That's a pretty good story... Don't forget to let us know when you find them...

Marcus

 Well, the ghosts have granted leniency, and I found the adjustable wrenches today, while cleaning out a spare bedroom. They were on top of a stack of books, under a chair. Now how they got upstairs and in that bedroom is beyond me, as I had always kept them in the shop in the basement. I am positive that "they live among us".
 Also another great surprise was finding a bunch of Rev-Up props that I had forgotten that I had purchased seven years ago. A good day granted by the ghosts.
 And yes, the wrenches have been returned to their place in the basement and the props put with my stash of props.
 Sorry about reviving this thread, but I promised I would let you all know when I found the wrenches. Everyone can breath now.......... 

[Will Hinton]

I still don't remember ever having any senior moments!

[wwwarbird]

I still don't remember ever having any senior moments!

[Jim Fruit]

I'm telling ya guys, it's the ghosts havin' fun with us.

 Larry

Larry:

I would like to tell you that it has something to do with our similar names. However, I think you were more correct with your point about senior moments. Being much your senior, I can tell you it does not get better. In my case, it has a lot to do with just having too much stuff. My top left drawer in the cabinet under my work bench has about thirty screw drivers in it. What??

Jim Fruit

[Mike Griffin]

Gosh I don't feel so bad now....

[Larry Fruits]

I still don't remember ever having any senior moments!

Will,
 I am beginning to wonder if you remember anything...
Between you and Jim Fruit, I have a lot of forgetting to look forward to. On the other hand, according to you both, I won't remember forgetting anyway.

 Larry
 

[Larry Fruits]

Larry:

I would like to tell you that it has something to do with our similar names. However, I think you were more correct with your point about senior moments. Being much your senior, I can tell you it does not get better. In my case, it has a lot to do with just having too much stuff. My top left drawer in the cabinet under my work bench has about thirty screw drivers in it. What??

Jim Fruit

 Jim,

 See my reply to Will's post above. I am trying to accumulate more stuff, but I am running out of room to put it. May have to add on to the shop. I even have one of my PAMPA stunters stored on the kitchen table. Yes I live alone. Maybe that's why.   But 30 screwdrivers? I don't know about that.
 Larry

[Perry Rose]

I went flying yesterday and lost my plane in the sun.

[john e. holliday]

Well you guys aint getting my demented poodle, Sandy.   I was getting ready to make the tanks for the planes.  Went to the cabinet drawer where all the soldering stuff is supposed to be and nothing there.  Not even my Monokote iron.   Set down in the chair trying to think where they were and looked at the poodle.   She kept staring past me and I finally turned around.  A stack of kits that fell from the big cabinet in the shop I had picked up.  Started to get up and rearrange them and what did I see peeking out from unde them.  My soldering iron was sticking out.  Move it and there was the Monokote iron.   She has also located stuff for me in the past also and lets me know when I need to settle down when I get frustrated.

[Will Hinton]

Doc, I don't have a demented poodle, so maybe I can get Larry Fruit to stop by?  (If I can remember his location, that is.)

[Larry Fruits]

I don't know Will, I think we would both be better off borrowing Doc's poodle, but I am afraid he thinks we would loose it too.    So I think we are being left to our own demise. Maybe a string around the finger, or post it notes all over the place?
 
Later;
    Larry

[john e. holliday]

Now after getting Sparky's post completely off course.   Go to supporters section under "Helpers" you will see why I have some trouble getting thins done.  Everybody knows Sandy,  then there is Prissy, the chihuahua that fits her name.   And the black one is Teddy, who thinks he can boss all of the animals in the house.

Now Sparky, have you got every thing under control?

[Jim Kraft]

Of all the things Iv'e lost, I miss my mind the most.

[Mike Lauerman]

Boy, am I glad Larry found those adjustable wrenches! 

I recently found a brand new adjustable wrench I had bought 15 years ago from my Snap On dealer.

It is an old Blue Point, (previous Company name prior to 'Snap On') 6 inch, black steel. (New Old Stock; I bought it for my flying box, just ONE adjustable wrench, all the rest of the flying box tools are Snap On. 

Mental picture of the wrenches in their mailing bag was identical to mine: that's where my lost wrench was, in the bag!  My #3 rollaway! (in the puller drawer!)