That feeling when you find what was lost

[GSMotorrad]

I've been stressing over losing my little Wiha bit-kit for like 3 months, and have substituted lesser tools to get some things done in the meantime, hoping it would turn up one day. I found it today! What's this feeling called? Relief? Peace? Happiness? Gratitude? Whatever it is, that's what I'm feeling, strongly right now.

I got mine on sale, and they're like $60 now. I would have never gotten it in the first place for that much, so I was looking to replace it with something cheaper.

I just sold about $80 worth of tools for what turned out to be $20, after fees and offering free shipping. As I was boxing them up to ship, I began looking in old boxes for some bubblewrap packing material and there it was, hiding inside some random box in the garage. I have no idea how it got there. It's like I overflowed my tool ownership allotment, so selling those tools that I wasn't using, opened up the space for the prodigal bit-kit to return home.

This thing is small, and I sort of thought I might lose it in the first place, then it happened. I attached some serious 3M Dual-Lock onto the bottom of the metal box, I just have to find a good place to mount it now.

 

[Wanna Ride]

I never lose things... I "misplace" them.
I think the emotion when "relocating" these "misplaced" items, is... joy.

 

[Empty Pockets]

That 3M dual lock is good stuff

 

[Roberts210]

I lost my Milwaukee 3/8ths drill some years back. I'd bought it new in 1984, and it was the first pro-quality Milwaukee tool I bought. MONTHS later I found it in the back of my work truck balled up in a blue tarp and stuffed in the corner of the truck. I thought it was trashed, but I plugged it in and it fired right up!

 

[2000-cvpi]

I find stuff in my garage all the time. I went through some file cabinet drawers and found a pair of USA screwdrivers that I bought at an estate sale years ago.

 

[mustanginky]

I usually find my lost stuff after i buy a replacement. Either that or i buy something only to realize that i bought it years before.

 

[reader2580]

I usually lose tools and end up having to get new ones. Then I find them a year or two later. I lost my side cutters and a hammer. I found them up inside a floor truss a year or later after I had long replaced them.

I haven't been able to find my Makita grinder for 18 months. (I know exactly what I used it for last, but still can't find it.) If I break down and buy another I'll probably find it right away.

 

[Richard Cranium]

That is what happens to me most of the time, After I replace some thing then I will find it.

 

[2oolhound]

I'm a real cheapskate. Example - I used my last wallet till it was literally falling to pieces before I retired it. Then I thought maybe I can glue the nice thin leather on some kind of tool or something sometime and tossed it in a junk drawer (after thoroughly combing through it to make sure there was no money left in it). Every time I've picked it up I think I should toss it but then I feel the nice leather and put it back to recycle.

A while back I was trying to thin down my junk and decided that's it, It's been a couple years and my current wallet is almost as bad as that one so it's time chuck it. I dug through it one last time before tossing it in the waste bucket and found a $100 bill folded up in-between the layers that I'd always missed. I thought Oh Boy! now I can buy a special tool when I see one that I wouldn't normally be able to afford! ….I've bought at least 3 or 4 new tools because of knowing I have that $100 but I never actually go and get that particular bill and it remains in its stash. Now when I see a good deal on CL I think, hey I have that $100 I found, thinking I haven't used it yet. It's been working great at justifying these expenditures!

 

[RPH]

You always find the lost items in the last place you look!

 

[derosa]

I thought Oh Boy! now I can buy a special tool when I see one that I wouldn't normally be able to afford! ….I've bought at least 3 or 4 new tools because of knowing I have that $100 but I never actually go and get that particular bill and it remains in its stash. Now when I see a good deal on CL I think, hey I have that $100 I found, thinking I haven't used it yet. It's been working great at justifying these expenditures!

That's the kind of logic I can really understand. I get a check about once a month for 80.00 for a small job I do, I usually have it spent 2 times over on something I want with the logic that I'll have the money to cover it when I get the 80.

 

[SweetD]

You always find the lost items in the last place you look!

That's because after you find them, you stop looking.



Dave