Coasters?

[petveedub]

So I mowed the lawn and performed a few other tasks around the house. Now I have the chance to sit down and enjoy a few refreshments in the garage, by myself away from the wife and children. (I've already had a few so...)

Anyway I was wondering if any of you protect those surfaces in your garage that you may have made with your own two hands, or perhaps purchased from an age of quality and craftsmanship? I am at the moment using a napkin beneath my cold refreshing drink on a recently purchased tanker desk that I am not sure what I'm going to do with. This is just so I don't have to say I used a coaster.

So flame away or perhaps say he only has a few posts and isn't worth responding to. either way!

 

[Wood'nMetal]

My shop IS a coaster! Seriously, I will set my drink pretty much anywhere and then spend another 10 minutes trying to find where I set it. I do freak out if anybody sets a drink on machined surface like table saw, jointer, drill press, etc.

 

[e30bradley]

I put my drink anywhere, I never use coasters.

 

[Zeke]

I wouldn't put any drink on a table saw or anything like it so I don't need no stinkin' coaster. But in the house if anyone sets or leaves a glass or can on any wood furniture I pick it up and place a coaster under without saying a word.

I do this to my wife even but she's pretty savvy about rings in the wood. I put marble counters in the kitchen because I really like carrera marble. My wife has ruined them. I'm going to sand them with 100 grit. They ought to look pretty rough then. But that's what my antique furniture tops look like — well used.

 

[SweetD]

I use "coozies" all the time...



A "must have" in my garage...



Dave

 

[efncrx]

Takes less time to wipe up the condensation, then to find a coaster.

Sleeves were invented to keep your arms clean.

 

[RalphInCA]

Coasters! Bah! Do you also put those little white doilies on the arms of your easy chair?

 

[crf731]

Put your cold beverage in one of these. Keeps it cold longer and doesn't leave little rings where you set it.

 

[koditten]

I wish I drank my beer slow enough to actually put it down.

 

[1/2 Cup]

I guess I would be considered pretty uncouth in some circles but I don't do coasters in the shed.
One thing I have learnt recently though, I now don't post on the GJ if I have had a few.

 

[coljar]

Once, I joked and told my wife if only she was 3ft. tall and had a flat head to set my beer on, she'd be the perfect wife. Turns out, she wasn't in a joking mood.

I'll throw a paper towel down if I don't have it in a cozy, just because of the condensation.

 

[Outlander]

This should keep you busy on a rainy afternoon https://www.pinterest.com/rondiac/coasters/

 

[RVDan]

I have a bunch of digital media disks that didn't burn properly or ended up corrupted or useless for one reason or another that I force people to put under their drinks at my dining room table.

Everywhere else who cares. Countertops are meant to have wet dishes on them, coffee table have glass tops. The garage has no flat surfaces to put a drink on and I don't drink out there anyway.

 

[383]

The lid from a Pringles can keeps the water rings off of my unfinished work bench.

 

[crewchief888]

I wish I drank my beer slow enough to actually put it down.

me too

 

[brownbagg]

i don't think i have ever use a coaster anywhere. house or garage. i remember mom buying me some for twenty years ago. had the dogs playing poker on them, they was still in the original box when i gave them to goodwill last month

 

[Spareparts]

I get kinda ****** when people put their drinks down on any tool's, benches, tool boxes, welders, plasma, saws. The young kids that they hire for summer help have no respect for anything and leave cups, cans, and bottles everywhere. When I find anything on the machines, or benches, or even on top of my tool box it either goes on the floor, or in the trash. We get free fountain drinks and they always get the largest cup, drink half and leave the rest somewhere, just a waste. Rant Over

 

[NUTTSGT]

If anything I'll use a cozie inthe warmer months to keep it from getting warm. I do have a whole sleeve of "Drive sober or get pulled over" coasters.

 

[Falcon67]

Coaster....well, I use window cleaner to wipe the coffee rings off the white fenders of my hot rod.

 

[GCncsuHD]

No coasters, I always use Koozies to keep it nice and cold. Though I did see these the other day, and thought about getting a few for when I have friends over, I do have a bar table I don't really care to get rings on. They are made from decommissioned fire hose, proceeds go back to the dept.

 

[bushmechanic]

I use "coozies" all the time...



A "must have" in my garage...



Dave

Dude. The mid-nineties are over. Just hold the can.

 

[dirttracker18]

One thing I have learnt recently though, I now don't post on the GJ if I have had a few.

I was thinking the same thing

 

[Bronson]

Dude. The mid-nineties are over. Just hold the can.

The beer gets warm from My hand and My hand gets cold from the beer.
I will take a coozie any day.