I kept buying tape measures and sprinkling them around my usual environs until the local tribes of tape measure stealing gnomes were satisfied. Now I can reliably lay hands on a tape measure in seconds no matter where I am.
Same for Phillips screwdrivers, for that matter.
I've also removed a small but significant source of stress from my life by changing my mindset around screwdrivers from "tool" to "consumable". The cold hard reality is that screwdrivers wear out, so the second a screwdriver begins to displease me, it hits the trash or scrap bin. No more wondering whether the screwdriver I grabbed will actually work or force me to find a better one, and less damage to screws.
I have at least five or six 1/4" drive roto ratchets. I mostly work on motorcycles, so one is always wearing a 10mm deep, and a few others usually get loaded up with an 8mm, 10mm shallow, and a 12mm (or maybe a 5mm hex bit, etc.) for the duration of the job at hand.
Another source of duplicates is, well, my shameful brain... Two years ago, my motorcycle tool roll disappeared over the winter. Absolutely could not find the damn thing, so I spent a few weeks and a couple hundred bucks figuring out what I needed and replacing everything.
And of course, not long after the process was complete, I found the old tool roll in a bin on the very back of the very top shelf while fetching something else. I had, apparently, very carefully hidden it from myself in a bin of completely unrelated stuff only two months earlier then somehow performed a complete memory wipe of those minutes.
The process of listing and acquiring the tools was at least sort of enjoyable and gave me something moto-related to do during the winter.
