buying a tool twice

[HowardH]

How many times have you bought a new tool because it had been so long that you forgot you already had one?  I almost pulled the trigger at Amazon for a rabbeting set but something made me think I might already have one.  I did some digging around and sure enough, I did! It had been several years since I last needed one and another opportunity presented itself for it's use so I'm glad I searched the shop!  What have you purchased a second time around only to discover you already had it? 

 

[Kev]

I ws very close to picking up a Festool level while I was getting a few bits and pieces recently, but convinced myself I didn't need another. Putting stuff into storage the other day and I found a box on a high shelf just out of sight .. yep - I'd already had the level [embarassed]

 

[Gwerner]

I've never done it with a power tool but I've lost count of the number of times I've done it with tape measures, torpedo levels and countersink bits. No matter how much searching I do in the shop before buying a new one, the old one magically reappears within minutes of the new one arriving.

 

[Holmz]

Tool vanishes Bye George
Tool appears Your right

I am in the same boat Brutha.

 

[pixelated]

I have this theory that certain tools are caught in some kind of space-time disturbance that causes them to wink in and out of existence in this universe.

 

[mikeomalley]

Now I understand!  Mike

 

[bertv]

I think that every shop has a black hole, where the lighter stuff gravitates to. I haven’t lost my drill press yet, but plenty of drill bits…

 

[chrisrosenb]

I just had that happen this weekend. I recently moved out of a storage building. There was an old jointer in the building, that I bought & intended to restore & sell. Instead of moving it to my pole barn, I moved it to the shop. I decided to order magnetic knife setting gauges to make setting the knives easier. I was on Amazon looking at different models, when one came up with a message that I purchased that set last year. It has happened several times before, but this was the first time I found out I already had the tool before I  purchased another.

 

[rst]

I'm convinced that somehow small hand tools and measuring devices are related to socks and the wash.

 

[greg mann]

Johnny Carson had a bit in one of his monologues about finally being able to look into Black Holes and finding 15 billion un-matched socks.

The Inuit had a custom of spreading small gifts to the gods when breaking camp, the thought process being the gifts would keep them, the gods that is, from sneaking into camp and making off with items easily missed and left behind.

For me, it is magazines or books. I buy one and don't get around to reading it right away and then buy another copy. I do have two fences for the MK700 though, so I guess it's not just books. [embarassed]

 

[zapdafish]

Happens to me with spices. I'll print out a recipe at work and stop off at the store on the way home and forget if I have dill, cumen, etc. and just throw a bottle of it in the cart.

Normally for tools, stuff will sit in the cart for a few days giving me a chance to look around my shop.

 

[Gwerner]

Happens to me with spices. I'll print out a recipe at work and stop off at the store on the way home and forget if I have dill, cumen, etc. and just throw a bottle of it in the cart.

This is exactly why I have 5 jars of dried sage and poultry seasoning in my cabinet right now...  [embarassed]

 

[waterloomarc]

I've done this many times with my wife's jewelry. Or as I like to call it Future Tool Credits.