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I've gone and done it now!!!

I actually had a good week last week...I got back a while ago from a dive trip to the Keys. Fast forward to last week, another dive trip coming up and I cant find my sons and my dive cert cards {cannot dive without them} my charger base for my dive camera and to top that off the one who must be obeyed lost her $4000 watch.....last Thursday I managed to find all items above plus that missing bottle of Bushmill's single malt. I am so happy now I am going to drink till I puke!!!!!
 
It's bad enough, me hiding things from myself...got no one to complain to but me. But the mistress of finance does it and so does the dog. I have this little toy Australian pi$$ machine that carries off anything I set down. After I lose my mind trying to figure out what is going on she gives herself away...she walks away looking back over her shoulder {smiling} and gives me the female canine version of a butt wag. This is her...you can see plainly that she is the devil...the anti-ChristView attachment 1103049in fact, all females are evil....except for Mexican girls with whips and handcuffs. They are angels.
Now that is scary
 
I ain't the sharpest tool in the drawer. When it comes to my stuff and order to cut out my ill temper when I can't find something, I have become as totally organized as possible. A place for everything and every thing in its place. Often when all my projects are complete, I will go through a section of my equipment and organize further and throw away things I no longer need. A long time ago, when I was just getting established I kept every thing from empty boxes to stuff like long replaced stocks. Got to the point where letting go, made me feel a lot better. Couple years ago, I reached the point of having enough shooting related items (archery, pistols, shotguns, and rifles). Arriving at that point was a load off my mind. Keeping what I have in the best possible form is now enough. Cold dark winter is a time for catching up, mainly shotshell loading on one of my 600 jrs. Just have one last tool on my wish list and it come up for sale 2 to 3 times a year.
 
I know , I know this is an old thread and the old thread busy bodies will have a conniption fit when they see this. But it has a happy ending. I found a big tote in the attic that has 2 Lyman over all length trimmers in it , an RCBS powder drop, a rifle vise and MY SCALES that I have been looking for, for a year now. The reason I went to the attic is I have now lost the powder pan that came with my charge-master.
 
No CRS can't explain the chargemaster parts. I went about 2.5 hours west of here to teach a buddy to reload and took the chargemaster and some one pulled in front of me and I hit the brakes and didn't realize at the time I had thrown the chargemaster check weights and scale pan on the floor and have lost them. I never looked and it is a work truck with many tools and people in and out every day.
 
Ummm, uh, UU - then you'd have to BEND OVER to get it. Now, thatsa sheesh!
I built a striper for wife's zero turn last week. Backed it up on ramps, hi-lo jacked onto stands, wasn't in and out on a creeper that much even w a blade sharpening..... feeling it this morning.
 
I have a nice wood shop and I am constantly leaving things where they don't belong. I get busy trying to finish something and tools and other items get set down and then I spend a disproportionate amount of time trying to recover stuff. Same with the reloading bench......
I noticed that often it was the same things most of the time...so, I came up with a solution that I thought would help. I created a certain place or spot where I would make it a point to set these "high loss" items when I was finished. That helped, but didn't really solve the problem.
I decided that the real problem was the tools {foxtail brush, pencils, small square, tape measure, razor knife, etc.} are all things that self camouflage and blend in with the general shop itself. I know this can be applied to a reloading bench or a metal machine shop too. So, I got a can of flaming high intensity blaze orange paint and painted these chronically lost things blaze orange. For those things that paint is not a good idea I tie a small lanyard of blaze orange para chord.
I am happy to report that it is working so far!!!
 

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