Ever just sit in your shop and think?

[Nermal43]

Sometimes it just lowers my stress to head to the shop, listen to some music, and think. Some of my best thinking happens this way. Anyone else?

 

[patrick66]

All the time. Quiet and serene, when I choose it to be.

 

[Shadowdog500]

+1! I think everyone does this from time to time.

Chris

 

[600SL]

Unfortunately I do that more than I work.

 

[tiggi]

No, I can't sit still especially in the shop, too many tools, too many projects...

 

[ScottsGT]

Yep, sitting down there earlier this evening and wondering how I became a hoarder.

 

[Shadowdog500]

Yep, sitting down there earlier this evening and wondering how I became a hoarder.

Tonight I was thinking that it's time to take stuff to the dump because I'm working around piles of stuff and tripping over stuff. I Also have hoarding tendencies, but once I start tripping over stuff, I have no problem tossing clutter.

Chris

 

[The Cobbler]

Yep, sitting down there earlier this evening and wondering how I became a hoarder.

never heard of hoarding... what is it?

 

[SchuLace]

Way too often. I'll sit on my stool and just look around and think. All with a beer in hand. It's nice and relaxing.

 

[Heavymetalmechanic]

All the time, I have a nice folding lawn chair out there for just that reason. I close the door facing the house, open one of the bay doors, pop on my headphones and tunes and just lean back. I try to do it at least once a week, I find it makes a big difference in my patience levels at home and work. I find I don't spend enough time sitting and reflecting in the winter, it is a lot easier to do in the summer, outdoors always seems to work better.

I keep a notebook at hand, otherwise I never remember my genius ideas.

 

[bobbycos]

All the time. Quiet and serene, when I choose it to be.

Yep, sitting down there earlier this evening and wondering how I became a hoarder.

Way too often. I'll sit on my stool and just look around and think. All with a beer in hand. It's nice and relaxing.

now i can go to sleep knowing i am not alone in this

 

[Flipper_1938]

Sit and think? Who would ever do such a thing?

....might as well be comfy....
20141108_075219 by Flipper_1938, on Flickr

 

[RivennHewn]

Sometimes I just sit and look at raw materials, reclaimed objects, and odd hardware.

I think if I sit with them long enough, they'll start talking to me and tell me what they want to be.

Actually works sometimes.

 

[1/2 Cup]

Yep, a place of much contemplation is the Shed Downunder..

 

[Cyberbear]

Yes, every chance I get, I do a little random thinking about where I should start on which next project. Besides the shop, I also have a very nice and relaxing office and hope to have my Man Cave up and operating soon that will be laid out like a studio apartment, a place to visit with friends and family away from all the usual interruptions during the day, watch a video or start learning to play the banjo purchased several years ago. I've come to appreciate quiet time.

 

[ADSR]

All the time!!!

 

[TonkaJoe]

Constantly... between my shop and my tree stand during hunting season that's where all of the BS melts away!.

 

[Openboater]

I over-think every project I do, so sitting and thinking in the shop is revered pastime. t

 

[tinbender 66]

Yes! One of my favorite pastimes!

 

[Nermal43]

Cool responses! After I started the post, I headed out with my best buddy and sat in the shop for a while. I thought about projects, and he (i am pretty sure) thought about chasing deer and cookies.

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[larry_g]

Sometimes I sits and thinks. Sometimes I just sits. ( Put that to a slow southern drawl.)

lg
no neat sig line

 

[PelicanPines]

If I sit there too long thinking... I end up reorganizing my tools.... having to make new drawer labels, etc etc.

 

[Outlander]

I have a lawn chair that came from my uncle 30 years ago right by the door so I can sit and think. I can stare at the lake from one of my benches so I can sit and think, and the gazebo and swing are 20 steps away so if I am exhausted from thinking I can nap.

Not so much in the winter, though.

 

[46MGTC]

I try to but most of the time nothing happens.

 

[ronr80]

I tend to do that also , sometimes I even crack open a beer, music is always playing , it's relaxing I guess.

 

[damienga15de]

Yeah once the door is closed the outside world and all its stress and worries are switched off.

 

[DangerousDan55]

Now that's funny.
In my younger years,, I did things without thinking.
Now days,,, I think about things I can't do anymore.

 

[TheEquineFencer]

Unfortunately I do that more than I work.

I know what you mean. Several great ideas have come from it...and reading the GJ while sitting here thinking....

 

[Tader82]

Nope, my best thinking has always been done on the old "John" lol

 

[LAROKE]

Yup! From my web log of a year or so back -

"I was left to ponder the steering wheel situation some more. I was sitting there with a cigar wondering if I could drill and tap a couple of holes in the steering wheel hub so my puller might work when my neighbor, Gato, walked in. He asked me if I was working or just thinking about working. Yeah, he knows about my crappy work habits."

 

[Mark in Indiana]

Makes me glad to be alive!

 

[Todd.Brock]

Unfortunately my "shop" is a 2 car garage that is currently warehousing the inventory for my current home projects. I spend as little time thinking in there as possible b/c it's cold and i think about tearing the thing off the house and blowing it up to 3x the size.

 

[wood02]

I go to the garage think about the things I really need to accomplish/finish. After finishing what I think needs to be finished...it is time to go back into the house.

 

[Jawn]

Yeah, sitting and thinking about projects is just as productive as actually working on them, in my opinion. It gives me a better focus of what I need to do when I do decide to get stuff done.

 

[Kevin54]

All the time. More so than I should especially since it has gotten cold outside. I had all sorts of plans but the garage addition fell through for this year, so I couldn't do what I wanted to do. One was repaint the Cub Cadet, but the Hoopty is stored in the garage now, momma's Olds 'vert went to a storage unit, too many tool boxes sitting around to do any painting, too many machines sitting in one area to do anything.

So I sit and play around on the computer, make a few small things on the machines, still trying to get the CNC figured out. I did purge a lot of stuff that I don't use and got rid of some scrap I had, sorted some items, trashed a bunch of old catalogs. Plus I haven't been able to stand for very long at a time due to my knee which should be getting fixed next week.

Hopefully we will have an early Spring so I can get the garage addition started. Once the addition is on, then I can get the garage straightened out to where I need it and have the room to do what I need to do.

I have had quite a bit of time to contemplate how I am going to finish off the addition and still don't know exactly how I am going to finish it off. I do know that there is not going to be anything on the walls as far as cabinets or benches. All of that will go into the side addition to keep things clean. One wall in the new addition will be a bunch of blown up drawings that KCarGuy does. I have an overhead projector, so the walls will be like the present garage with corrugated tin at the bottom, but the top half covered with KCarGuy's drawings. Hopefully I have enough room to put a lift in so I can do a lot of my own car work.

But as far as just hanging out in the garage, I do it quite a bit. Probably not a day goes by that I'm not out here doing something. That changes when Summer comes though, because then that is being outside as much as possible. I just hate staying in the house all of the time. And there is always something to do in the garage whether it be tinkering with something, or just kicking back watching the TV or listening to the stereo.

 

[BluCamaro]

Yes I do and my wife laughs at me every time. "Why the hell are you sitting out here?"
They just don't get it.

 

[rburke65]

When I was redoing my '65 Chevy, I would go to the pole barn and if I did nothing else but sweep the floor and while I was doing this my mind would ponder the project of getting the car finished. Sometimes just sit and look at the Chevy......

 

[angrystroker]

Sometimes it just lowers my stress to head to the shop, listen to some music, and think. Some of my best thinking happens this way. Anyone else?

Not in my shop it is has tools and machines no entertainment. Do go over to the hotrod garage sit between the two rods. Leg up in a wheel, cigar and a glass of water, use to smoke a joint also, but grown up now.

Yep let the mind wander.

 

[smokeyburb]

Absolutely! Thinking helps clear a path through the fog of life.

 

[Moose02]

what is this thinking thing