Why do people do this? I just don't understand.

[Doc995]

Well, the *are* free...that said, I've picked up plenty of hand tools that have been rusty..I find that once you put them to task, get then nice & oily & dirty, they'll work just fine for you. Sure, they won't be pretty, but they'll do. As others said, they'll make a good "emergency" kit for your car, truck or whatever that you're not afraid of either losing or breaking.

 

[IndyGarage]

I see buildings and airplanes and houses and cars and trucks heck even entire cities in the same condition.

When people don't take care of something it starts to degrade. The good news for those wrenches is that they probably still work just fine.

Just yesterday I saw an ad for a boat that looked like my first boat - I actually think it was my first boat - I sold it 17 years ago, and it looked in sad shape for $1200. I actually wanted to go buy it. I put so much work into that boat, It's hard to see it in that shape.

 

[seber]

I have an entire giant cooler full of rusted hand tools I found in a storage locker. Everything in the locker was in the same kind of condition. Some people just don't care.

 

[woody 73]

I never get smart as to why people do what they do, I figure it is their money and they can do what ever they like.

I have rescued many a tool from buckets of sitting water, it takes a long time to bring them back from the dead and I find much enjoyment in doing it. My only regret is passing up on a very old vintage pliers that I have never seen before but the damage was just to much to overcome.

 

[Mechanical Noise]

WE are living in a "disposable" world now..

Yesterday's keepers are today's disposable. In the very early days of electric lights, there were some places that actually rebuilt light bulbs. `

The fact that we're in a disposable world is a reflection of our increasing wealth. Replacing stuff keeps getting cheaper.

 

[BDT/NWMN]

People are idiots. I offered a nice 1980's era Montgomery Wards Powr-Kraft roller cabinet with top box to my BIL to organize his tools that are scattered around his 2 car garage in small piles on the floor and some in the shed. For free. Made very well and clean.

He said he didn't have the room for it. So I laughed and pointed out that there was a pile of tools on the floor that took up more space than the footprint of the toolbox. Can't fix stupid. Enjoy searching for tools. I've been over there helping him on repairs. 80% of the time is spent on searching for various sizes of sockets and extensions, etc.. After he refused the toolbox, I don't help him anymore.

Possible that BIL cannot count the times He slammed a tool box drawer on His fingers. He tried leaving the drawers partially open, but they filled with rain, snow, or bird and mouse nests. He would rather keep His tools in convenience piles; as tool boxes proved to be far too complicated.

I recall visiting a particular shop where I spent 15 minutes looking for a 3/8 drive, 9/16" socket that wasn't broken. It was in an upper drawer of a tool chest that still actually opened. The lower drawers had been kicked shut and bent beyond use. His drill bits and drills were stored on opposite sides of the shop; as were impact sockets and impact wrenches. The main workbench and toolbox were also on the opposite sides. Power tools were stored under the bench grinder, and were covered with grindings..

This guy is likely related to Your BIL.

 

[Magnum440d100]

People are idiots. I offered a nice 1980's era Montgomery Wards Powr-Kraft roller cabinet with top box to my BIL to organize his tools that are scattered around his 2 car garage in small piles on the floor and some in the shed. For free. Made very well and clean.

He said he didn't have the room for it. So I laughed and pointed out that there was a pile of tools on the floor that took up more space than the footprint of the toolbox. Can't fix stupid. Enjoy searching for tools. I've been over there helping him on repairs. 80% of the time is spent on searching for various sizes of sockets and extensions, etc.. After he refused the toolbox, I don't help him anymore.

Sounds like a guy I know. He has about 30-40 project cars. His tools are spread around all the projects.

I finally got him to buy a harbor freight tool cart for at least some mobile storage. Before that, he worked out of canvas bags. Even now, he still has to look for tools in each vehicle...

I mentioned that he needs to get a big main box to store all his tools, then load up the cart with what he may need to work on a specific job...

His excuse now is that he needs to make room for a main box on his patio...

I couldn’t imagine not working out of at least a semi organized box (wrenches in 1 drawer, screwdrivers in 1 drawer, sockets in 1 drawer, etc).

I think I heard it here “some people work too hard at being lazy”...

 

[454ragtop]

Why do people have to start a thread with such a meaningless title? That's what I want to know...….

 

[Elvie84]

I know a lot of people who don’t look after there tools just throw them in the yard and lose them, or they find them 6 months later all rusty and ask how did that happen.