Pluggers by Rick McKee for December 17, 2012

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    KasparV  over 11 years ago

    I know the feeling well. I inherited my grandfathers collection and junk drawer, and it’s still true.

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    rini1946  over 11 years ago

    do not forget you have a ton of them but you got to the hardware store to buy some because none of the ones you have work

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    flyertom  over 11 years ago

    Also, if you need three, you must buy a package of 10, adding to your collection. Of course, five of those seven will migrate to wherever socks go.

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    Jonni  over 11 years ago

    I’d rate it higher, but in the top ten is satisfying.

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    TheWildSow  over 11 years ago

    Oh yeah, we have that collection!

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    Sangelia  over 11 years ago

    same here for that collection.

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    Plods with ...™  over 11 years ago

    Yup. I even have a jar my dad passed on. That one has to be 75+

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    Jolly1995  over 11 years ago

    well i definitely qualify for ‘plugger hood’ cause i have an old 1lb Chock Full o’Nuts coffee can – must be 50 yrs old at least. I still have the little scoops that came with it and use them every day! thanks for this one!!

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    battle of plattsburgh  over 11 years ago

    You should see his wife’s button collection.

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    abesnake  over 11 years ago

    In the shop I worked in, this collection was called “the million dollar can” because every so often you found just the right screw, bolt, nut or whatsis you needed and that was worth a million dollars (or so it felt).

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    abesnake  over 11 years ago

    The new coffee cans aren’t even metal anymore!

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    Pipe Tobacco Premium Member over 11 years ago

    I’ve inherited my dad’s and it is in an old METAL Sir Walter Raleigh Pipe Tobacco can. Of course, I also have a can of my own for the odds and ends I have, but mine is a cardboard can that had Sir Walter Raleigh in it.

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    Redhead55  over 11 years ago

    Sorting nuts, bolts and washers was my job as a kid at my Dad’s shop. I guess it kept me busy and he knew where I was.

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    Gretchen's Mom  over 11 years ago

    If he kept all his miscellaneous nuts, bolts, screws, etc. in separate little baby food jars like my husband does, he’d always know what he has and where it is.

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    hippogriff  over 11 years ago
    Nowadays you can’t get hardware at a hardware store unless it is pre-packaged in more than you need. We lost our last real hardware store a couple years ago. You could take in a tiny nut and say “I need a one-inch round-head bolt to fit this.” It would take them two minutes to have it on the nut and charge you three cents. Capitalism wipes out free enterprise.
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    pcolli  over 11 years ago

    When my step mother dies, I will have to sort out my dad’s shed. I bet I find my old die cast model cars from the sixties. I know he got rid of his dentist’s drill (ancient – but he wasn’t a tooth doctor). There is a rather magnificent RAAF metal trunk full of odds and ends but I’ve got nowhere to put it..Why don’t houses expand to accommodate the inhabitants’ possessions?

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    Johnny Galt  over 11 years ago

    Not to mention that my “Hell Box” has mostly US standard threaded stuff in it and most of what we need nowadays is metric threaded.

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