You KNOW your a tool ADDICT when....

[metaleltr]

I can't tell you how many times I have confused people by telling them what tool I am looking for, or that someone ELSE is looking for.
IE someone comes into a store, in the isle your "browsing" (drooling) and asks for socket/wrenches, and the salesperson has no idea they are describing saltus wrenches.
You ask for Wilemar (spelling) ear style clamp pliers, or otiker clamp pliers, and the tool sellers look at you funny. (and you think that Otiker might make a good dogs name)
You know what a stillson wrench is.

You get approached by the regional manager of a large tool company, trying to get you to go into debt to become a salesman, because you know the tools better then your salesman.

You identify tools (brand and type) in any tv show you watch (or movie).

I also found a 3" 3/8 drive extension and a 3/8" drive spark plug socket on different roads on different occasions. The spark plug socket still had a spark plug in it.

Ironman 2 I was identifying tools left and right.
It's not typically a movie I would watch but I went with a friend and his parents, the tools kept me interested. Lincoln welders, Empire level, Ridgid aluminum pipe wrench.

 

[Mmfh]

When you miss a deal and you sweat it for a week or two AFTER missing out?

Boy do I know that one!!!

Mm

 

[YZ Rider]

When you don't go to school on the day the Snap-On guy comes. Or when you make your sister take the shortcuts across town, to catch the matco guy after school. I'm guilty of many of the posts above.

 

[Oldndirty]

When you buy because you dont have one in that COLOR!!!!

 

[DrkMtnDew]

when buy more tools. And some more. And some more. And some more. And some more...

 

[DanCo]

When you've just recently married and the wife asks why is there a Snap On catalog next to your side of the bed.

 

[mayhemman]

when your best friend keeps telling you that if you didn't buy so many tools you might be able to fix your hot rod.

you justify your tool purchasing as investing in yourself and saving money on repairs.

yup thats my story and im sticking to it.

 

[softailgarage]

When you cant sleep the night before "Craftsman Week " begins

When your at the swap meet looking for vintage tools on Sunday...instead of being at home watching football and Nascar

 

[wave180]

When you don't have time fixing cars because you're busy searching for tool deals.

 

[CCer]

When you wake up in the morning, and remember your dreams. You were walking through a field, a lawn, or a dirt floor shed, and you see something shiney, you dig with your hands, and find a socket, then more, some wrenches, just dirty, no rust, you keep on finding tools, until you wake up!

 

[PowerGenGuy]

When you've just recently married and the wife asks why is there a Snap On catalog next to your side of the bed.

Funny I keep SO and Wright catalogues beside my bed, I read them to the my sons before they go to bed, my five year old wants "Mr. Big"!

 

[4v shane]

When you purposely break tools to warranty/buy new ones

Your time on the toliet goes from 5 min to 20 min because there is a snap on/matco catalog next to the dumper

 

[Appleyard]

You read the word "so" but in your hear you automatically hear "Snap On"

 

[Appleyard]

- That you check the CL tool listings for your area EVERY night, before going to bed.And when you wake up

- That you check the Ebay listings for your favorite brands EVERY night, before going to bed. And when you wake up

Fixed it for you

 

[safabox]

When you spend all your money on tools & have no money left to pay the bills.

When you spend all your money on tools & have to walk to work.

Where is Doctor Phil when you need him.

 

[fordbroncodave]

you are a tool addict when you memorize everyone elses toolbox and all of its contents and state of condition.


(that sums up my part time job at the skelly station. i clean and put away tools for 3 different toolboxes, most of which have the same tools)

 

[humber2]

Load up for a swap meet and offer more high quality tools than most people dream of owning....

Have to then listen to how worn out they might be....

Hear how many tools come from a Readers Dgest ad for 9.99

 

[oeyniman]

... your hardware shop owner provides you with a free entrance ticket to the 'INTERNATIONAL HARDWARE FAIR COLOGNE 2012'.

... ending up in his very zippy debadged sleeper AUDI S4 station wagon together with one of his employees being taken back and forth to visit the show together.

What a hell of a great way to spend a Sunday, ending up having 'KOELSCH' in the Cologne Altstadt !!!

... that didn't ****.

 

[The Dutchman]

...the sun's coming up & you're still on the internet with your list, trying to satisfy God knows how many variables, juggling this & that vendor's prices/shipping rates etc.

You check the UPS/FedEx tracking info 6 times a day.

Your working buddies openly ridicule you for spending so much on tools, but when they're working on a job & it goes south.....

 

[geologist]

...when you tell your wife you're just trying to fill out your box, and then when its almost full, you buy another box.

 

[fury9]

When you tell your wife-YEAH I NEED THAT,DO YOU WANNA PAY MANY DOLLARS AT A REPAIR SHOP? HOW ELSE IS YOUR CAR GONNA GET FIXED. Besides I don't trust anybody else working on your car,remember what happened (the first and) last time? Bam! tool aquired

 

[woody 73]

When your wife drops off in the ladies dept. and you suddenly find yourself in front of the dept. with all the kitchen tools looking at any tool will suffice while she shops till she is worn out.

 

[bsaint]

When you spend all your money on tools & have no money left to pay the bills.

When you spend all your money on tools & have to walk to work.

Where is Doctor Phil when you need him.

Pretty much.

When you need a car but keep buying more tools for that 2nd toolbox

 

[USMCdodge]

When you cant stop calling the week before the range snap on. (Its SnapIN )

 

[blue dog]

When you have Harry Epstein's on speed dial.

 

[Murphy4570]

Or when you go Disney with the kids and the best part is taking pictures in the fast trak ride of all the Snap on and GM tools!

Yeah I did that.

But Disney got Mac Tools to give them a pile of toolboxes. Only Snap-On boxes I saw had had their brand logos removed. Was a smaller Heritage series KRA box and an older KRL 54" wide box.

 

[donsims30]

LOL so true on the tattoo, for me it's a girl straddling a spark plug and holding a wrench in the air. Under her it says Strap-On Tools he-he

 

[egnorant]

When you are supposed to be at work at 11 A.M. on Saturday...so you leave the house at 6:30 for a 14 mile commute with a list of garage sales on a clipboard on the front seat and an empty trunk.
You make a bundling deal on 7 tools even though you already have 2 of them, no use for 3 of them and don't really know what 2 of them do but one has Ford script on it and the other has a cast iron handle and 3 sharp edges (turns out it is a shingle remover).

And your late for work!

Bruce

 

[Brian T]

When the tool trucks stop at your house as part of their regular route .

Brian

 

[donsims30]

When you already have dibs on your older relatives tools

When you're constantly browsing through tool forums for something to comment on about tools

 

[metaleltr]

You have added words like Gearwrench, Mac, Matco, and, Snap-On to your spell check.

 

[Carguy99]

you have no idea how many ( insert tool here) you have.
Along the same thought
you purchase a new tool only to find out you already own two

 

[Hetman]

Does EDC toolbox make you a tool addict?
You know, similar to first aid kits, dozen knives and guns that survival preppers carry?

 

[rsanter]

You know your a tool addict when you toolbox is worth more than your car, an when your toolbox with it's tools is worth more than your house and your car combined

Bob

 

[tiendat]

I am new here. I have all symptoms you all list here. Please help. I alway find a good reason to buy the tool but I only use once in the lifetime. And I will buy a tool for using in the future but maybe net get use.

 

[thebeekeeper1]

Perhaps when your wife's answer to every treasure you bring home and excitedly explain all the wonders and virtues is, "You need help."

 

[ndoran]

you have no idea how many ( insert tool here) you have.
Along the same thought
you purchase a new tool only to find out you already own two

or in my case four of the Snap On #3 Phillips screwdriver.

 

[jeffmoss26]

You have Harry Epstein's saved as a contact in your cellphone.

 

[richfinn]

Yeah I did that.

But Disney got Mac Tools to give them a pile of toolboxes. Only Snap-On boxes I saw had had their brand logos removed. Was a smaller Heritage series KRA box and an older KRL 54" wide box.

Guilty, and I live 3500 miles away across the atlantic ocean

And I made the mistake of trying to buy some Bourbon in an Orlando Walmart, when I asked "where are the spirits please" the Walmart guy looked at me as if I was a Ghostbuster or something

 

[archirelic]

When you have complete & separate sets of tools for your main box, your roll cart, and your portable boxes in each one of your three vehicles.

When you have complete & separate sets of tools for both of your tool bags that you use on demo/remodeling jobs.