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Yup. See a doctor.
Of course I believe everyone on this site is a tool nut. The full time contractors, the lawyers, back yard mechanics, firemen, doctors, teachers, garbage men, cops, students….yeah…were all frigged up. Guess I should see one too 🙂
How many times has that story played out in my head.
Well I for one have knife juggling monkeys floating around in inner Chris space so…..
you know you have it bad, when you try to convince your wife that a new pair of pliers will help you get the garbage out on time……
ChrisK1970 wrote:
Well I for one have knife juggling monkeys floating around in inner Chris space so…..
Woah you might want to have that checked out Chris!!
Yep I seek help at the tool store. It’s the only fix that works for us.
I didn’t have the money for the best tools or the right tool for a job and I paid the price. Either busted knuckles or seeing a huge repair bill by having someone else do the repair. I tried to suggest some quick cheap fixes for a person with a black pack blower that was acting up. Taking something in for a small engine repair is a expensive now. It’s a minimum of $75 dollars it seems now
Ur a super tool nut bro and there’s no fixing that man……. That’s why were all here to help eachother with this infectious addicting habbit that makes ur wallet sweat when next to any kind of tools and the urge to have to be in tool section 7 days a week to make urself feel kinda better!!!!!!…….uuaahhhh!!!! Lol!!!
I’m there too man. I have a lot of stuff that goes beyond what I really “need”, but I wanted it.
I keep telling myself that at some point I’ll have everything I could realistically ever use, but I don’t know who I think I’m kidding. I’ll be buying tools until I die.
My personal line for realizing I was out of control is having triple-digits in the ratchet count… Or maybe having more than one miter saw.
Not there yet, but I’m trying…
I do have two miter saws the little Ryobi Cordless and the Big 12″ Bosch slider. I figure I’m ok because of the huge size and weight difference.
Comp, I’m right there with you buddy! I assume many of us are!!
I too have always loves tools and just making something with my hands. From being Lego obsessed as a young kid to now owning a remodeling company.
When other kids on Christmas were getting new bikes or the latest game console, I was literally getting mechanic’s tool chests, air compressors, angle grinders, and torque wrenches ( back in my high school days I was most into mechanics tools, welders, etc.now I’m much more construction/woodworking focused)
There is something very satisfying about having not only the right tool for the job, or a tool for any job, but also the knowledge and ability to use them!!
Conductor562 wrote:
I’m there too man. I have a lot of stuff that goes beyond what I really “need”, but I wanted it.
I keep telling myself that at some point I’ll have everything I could realistically ever use, but I don’t know who I think I’m kidding. I’ll be buying tools until I die.
Haha, I can’t help but perfectly relate to this!! Your need/want rings very true with me also, but you second comment is so 100% right on!!
I don’t know how many times I’ve told myself or my wife that if I just get this or that new tool I will be all set. Haha. That is NEVER the case 🙂
Ahh… I love buying tools 🙂 🙂 🙂
My wife and kids are fully supportive to my tool addiction, in fact they are indirectly enablers…….buying me tools for birthdays and such…..my wife shocked me 1 time in home depot, I was looking at a M18 circular saw that was on sale……..as I was holding the demo tool looking at it my wife says to the fellow helping me is it the fuel version? he says no not this one and we don’t have any in stock……my wife says well there is no sense buying this one, wait for the fuel version to come in ………
and here I didn’t think she listened to my mumbling about tools as I often do…..
comp56 wrote:
My wife and kids are fully supportive to my tool addiction, in fact they are indirectly enablers…….buying me tools for birthdays and such…..my wife shocked me 1 time in home depot, I was looking at a M18 circular saw that was on sale……..as I was holding the demo tool looking at it my wife says to the fellow helping me is it the fuel version? he says no not this one and we don’t have any in stock……my wife says well there is no sense buying this one, wait for the fuel version to come in ………
and here I didn’t think she listened to my mumbling about tools as I often do…..
Whatever you do, dont let that one get away!!! she is a keeper!! 🙂
Hehe ya I know even the guy working there gave me that look of approval …..the you lucky bugger look!
Conductor’s Mom: What do you want for Christmas?
Me: I dunno, maybe some wrenches.
Conductor’s Mom: Good Lord, you can’t be serious! How many wrenches do you have?
Me: What if 30 people stop by on the same day and need to borrow a 9/16″ wrench? I’d be 2 or 3 short.
Conductor’s Mom: You need help. Serious, professional help.
Me: I’ll send some links to the wrenches.
Conductor’s Mom: (hangs up the phone)
Conductor562 wrote:
Conductor’s Mom: What do you want for Christmas?
Me: I dunno, maybe some wrenches.
Conductor’s Mom: Good Lord, you can’t be serious! How many wrenches do you have?
Me: What if 30 people stop by on the same day and need to borrow a 9/16″ wrench? I’d be 2 or 3 short.
Conductor’s Mom: You need help. Serious, professional help.
Me: I’ll send some links to the wrenches.
Conductor’s Mom: (hangs up the phone)
Moms, wives, girlfriends, siblings…. they will just never get it, will they!?!
well at least it hasn’t come down to …….”PSST” come over here, look what I’ve got…as he swings open his sport jacket in a dark alley
I think a good rule of thumb for tool quantity is you don’t need to worry about it until your tools scrap metal weight is worth more than your house.
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!! Conductor u the man!!
I must be some sort of luck NE. The last time I went to Woodcraft with Samantha she bought me the Domino while I was talking to Paul about dust collection. I turn around and we’re walking out with it. She keeps trying to make me buy more stuff!
I’m lucky too, I made a deal with the therapist I see about my tool addiction…..she will give me 8 free sessions and buy me a new mitre saw of my choice if I install her kitchen cabinets…..
Yeah but hey…what a heck of a trade off!
I was thinking like a true addict, get the 8 sessions go pick out the saw and then tell her I don’t install kitchen cabinets……but if I do that I figure I will be pissin in a bag the rest of…..
NERemodeling wrote:
Moms, wives, girlfriends, siblings…. they will just never get it, will they!?!
They won’t. I got on my brothers ass about his lack of tools a couple months back and his reply was “Why would I buy tools when I have every tool in the world 7 minutes away at your house?”
That’s YOUR problem Travis! I don’t lend my brother tools from my personal list anymore! Frikin’ destroys ’em!
Come to think on it…..,maybe THATS why I have so many tools! Kinda like I have .13 of an acre and a 14 Tundra and he has six acres and a farm with a rolling vagina (Prius). That darn kid IS smarter than me!!!!!!!!
Haha, nope they well never get it. My soon-to-be-inlaw alwayssends some sissy home owner tool set (the ones with a 4oz hammer) that come in a plastic case.yes it is a nice gesture but I don’t hang photos for a living.
I have learned to just ask for a knife because even if it is a shit knife, it’s still a knife.
wife says “I’m not a tool nut I’m the Bolt!”….cause every time the HD flyer comes I Bolt…….
I like that, I may have to steal that line….