One Thing Led To Another ...

[jeremy_cherokee]

I'm (hopefully) going to start a garage build thread here shortly as I just moved to a new house with a very nice garage that I'm going to start "fixing up" ...

In the meantime, however, I went down to Sears yesterday to replace a broken ratchet and decided to hop on over to Harbor Freight. I got up to the door and saw they had a sale so I was already a little excited. Walked inside and, saw their 44" tool boxes were on sale for 50% ... well, one thing led to another:

I'm very happy I have a very understanding wife that doesn't care when I call her and tell her I'm about to spend money on a toolbox Got both top and bottom for $689 after taxes! Even got it in the crate still, not a store model!

 

[8man]

Good job!

 

[jeremy_cherokee]

I now feel obligated to clean my tools before migrating them to the new box ... so it could take some time before the migration is complete

 

[Toolfool]

Great buy, and congratulations on the new home.

 

[jeremy_cherokee]

Great buy, and congratulations on the new home.

Thanks! Took us 8 months to find a house and I walked into the garage and the wife walked into the kitchen and we were immediately sold. The kitchen has all hand built cabinets and the garage has a 30x24 heated shop behind a 20x24 parking garage.

 

[Falcon67]

Nice. You'll be glad you started at that size. Note I said "started"

 

[KRB52]

I'm trying to convince my wife that it is time we bought a house so we need to save up. She agrees, but some how doesn't grasp the concept of "save money." As it is, I want to go for a 15 year mortgage, since I would like to retire at some point in the not that distant future. Congrats on the house and the tool box.

 

[countryroad82]

You did well there!!!!

 

[Ben Buck]

Jeremy, Welcome to the GJ

Great Box right out of the Box!!

Hope your new house and garage works out!!

It's good to have a wife that understands, AND you and her can have your places.

Where abouts on the planet are you located ? It helps on your profile for comments and such?

 

[mmelton005]

the hf44's are a great choice. I have one and want to get the top box and the two side accessories. not a bad box at all.

 

[jeremy_cherokee]

Nice. You'll be glad you started at that size. Note I said "started"

My dad was a mechanic for about 13 years and we have always continued to tinker in the garage. I'm fortunate enough to be off to a good start in a good career so I hope you're right - I hope I get to expand and continue to tinker for many years to come! I started moving tools from the old box to the new and think I have enough to start a "first tool box" for my 1 year old twins!

I'm trying to convince my wife that it is time we bought a house so we need to save up. She agrees, but some how doesn't grasp the concept of "save money." As it is, I want to go for a 15 year mortgage, since I would like to retire at some point in the not that distant future. Congrats on the house and the tool box.

I would love to get down to a 15 year mortgage - man, owning my house before the kids graduate would be amazing! Thanks!!

You did well there!!!!

Thanks!!

Jeremy, Welcome to the GJ

Great Box right out of the Box!!

Hope your new house and garage works out!!

It's good to have a wife that understands, AND you and her can have your places.

Where abouts on the planet are you located ? It helps on your profile for comments and such?

Thank you! I chose this one only partially because of the deal but mainly because I haven't heard anyone say really anything bad on it on my months of lurking the GJ forums

Yes it is - we learned many years ago that it's extremely important to be two independent people that live together and share common interests and to not be two people who have to do everything together all of the time.

We just moved to a tiny little town called Roland in Iowa. We went from Ankeny which, by Iowa standards, is kind of a mid-sized town (about 50k people) to Roland which has about 1200 people. It's so nice to be able to go outside and NOT hear traffic and sirens and all the noise of a bigger town. Plus we got a beautiful house that we feel will be a great place for the kids to grow up!

the hf44's are a great choice. I have one and want to get the top box and the two side accessories. not a bad box at all.

I'm pretty impressed with it so far. I like that it comes with the drawer liners already, seems to be built very well, and just seems really solid. Plus I already have "free" space in it so I'm pretty sure that means I haven't bought enough tools

 

[Model A Fan]

Post up some pictures sometime of your house, garage and tool setup! 1200 people in a city would be nice to have. I live in a city with 80,000-100,000 depending on if the college(s) are in session. There's a university, a community college and a technical college.

 

[jeremy_cherokee]

Post up some pictures sometime of your house, garage and tool setup! 1200 people in a city would be nice to have. I live in a city with 80,000-100,000 depending on if the college(s) are in session. There's a university, a community college and a technical college.

Oh I will I'm waiting to get the trailer out of the garage so that you can see something other than the trailer in the garage Hopefully this weekend I'll get the motivation to take a load to the dump and get the trailer emptied!