You KNOW your a tool ADDICT when....

[84TurboBuick]

When your mail-lady has to make multiple trips from her mail truck just to give you all your e-bay boxes!!!

 

[Canadian Charlie]

Instead of buying a carburator for your pride and joy pick up that it needs you buy tools. And your truck has been waiting 2 years to get back on the road.

 

[Joe H]

When you realize that at least half of your motivation of becoming an automobile technician is the tools.

 

[truckdriver]

You start having your ebay packages sent to your dads house so you don't have to listen to your wife chew your ***.

 

[GDA]

No matter what size or weight of package shows up at the house.... "what tool did you get now" is the first thing asked.

 

[mkdive]

you belong to a tool forum that has two threads right now.... about how to tell if you'r a tool addict!?!?!?

 

[RLRRLRLL]

i just read this whole thing.....i spent 40 bucks on tools yestreday...when i have a bill from the doctor that may get sent to collections if i dont pay any on it soon..

 

[JWink]

When your spend your budgeted car maintenance money on tools and rationalize it by telling yourself that you couldn’t work on your car without those new tools anyways

When you already know what tools you’re going to spend your “tool money” on for the next three pay checks

 

[mkdive]

Heck just they fact some of us budget "tool money"....says it all!! (at least in my case).

 

[Joe69]

You buy $100 worth of tools to fix a $20 item.

Joe

 

[Joe69]

I take my tools to bed especially Strap-on. Sometimes any new tool I buy and like alot.

Fixed it for you.

Joe

 

[jimexcursion]

Aw damn... that's me right there. I saw some Mayhew prybars (3 pc set) on clearance at the local hardware for $39.**. It was killing me that I didn't know anone who could use them... the likelihood that I'll ever see them again for that price is slim to none....

I'll take them! lol. Prybars are like crack to me.

 

[jimexcursion]

When you're contemplating which tools you're going to buy this month before you think about paying the bills.

That's me for sure.

 

[jimexcursion]

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.

Hasn't happeend yet but I know Snap On boxes better than my dealer does.

 

[jimexcursion]

When you don't bother going to Sears tool department because you have everything you need from there and the tools you don't have from there, you don't need. For example, I'm a truck mechainc so I don't need their wood working stuff.

 

[Erle385]

when you always have a tool in your pocket. whether its a ratchet in the back pocket or a wrench with you

 

[bindernut]

when you always have a tool in your pocket. whether its a ratchet in the back pocket or a wrench with you

It's a very rare day when I don't have my snap on 105ap ignition pliers with me.

Why oh why did they have to discontinue this item???????? Handiest thing ever. Fortunately I have 2 or 3 spare pair in the junk drawer of my dresser.

 

[billymade]

You mean these?
http://buy1.snapon.com/catalog/item.asp?store=snapon-store&item_ID=15560&group_ID=749

I warranted my old ones for this new version; I think it is actually a inferior tool to the chrome version!

http://buy1.snapon.com/catalog/item...id=753&supersede=&store=snapon-store&tool=all

 

[bindernut]

Hmmmm, that first link actually shows a pic of the 105AP. Wonder if that's what it truly is.The 2nd pic is a totally different tool with the same part# as the first link.

 

[billymade]

The first link shows the pliers I had; my dealer swapped it out with the second pair which I think has super-ceded it, the earlier version was better... IMHO! I hate when a revised tool is inferior to the earlier version!

 

[bindernut]

Ok, that's what I figured. I also have the older version, and I have at least 2 if not 3 extra brand new never used pair. Bought the last pair my old dealer had, and the last pair that Chadster had when I heard they were being discontinued.

 

[Burgerkong]

When your mail person knows you by first name and gives you the package first even though there are other people waiting for the mail to keep you from hoarding him/her at the mailbox.

And yes, she does know my first name. LOL

 

[K5blazer83]

...instead of studying for exams you find yourself studying the Snap-On and Matco catalogs.
...you overhear somebody's car probelm and you think "I've got the tools to fix that"
...your friends call you a "closet redneck"
...tools are the first and last thing you think about during the hours you're awake. (and perhaps when you're sleeping)
...you feel like you just cured AIDS or the common cold when you replace that Chinese tool in your box with a shiny USA-made tool.
...the Snap-On and Matco catalogs have a home on the back of your toilet.
...you snicker, laugh, and poke fun of your friends that have Craftsman, HF, and other Chinese tools as you gloat about your newest tool truck brand purchase.
...you tell yourself "THIS is the LAST tool I buy" and then you realize that you're a total liar and your just kidding yourself.

 

[jethro29]

you buy your wife a dozen pair of pink snap on socks for christmas.

 

[arkangel06]

When your at a flea market with your friend looking for tools and in a booth theres a few shiney new import ratchets sitting beside a beat up old american made ratchet all of them dirt cheap and you smile in delight at the old american made ratchet while your firends thinking your dumb for not buying the shiny imported pos.

 

[knucklehead]

when i bought a Snap-On 1" drive socket set...not because i will ever need a 3-1/8" socket, but because it was a cheap set & i didn't own a 1" drive set yet.

 

[WhatThaFrig]

When you have tools to fix tools!

 

[fatboy99]

When you have tool's that can make tool's !

 

[billymade]

This thread has taken on a life of it own! I love it! Keep 'em coming!

 

[Even 11]

When you name your pets after your tools!

Kobalt and Mac if you wanted to know.

-Dane

 

[mkirkpatrick]

I'm not an addict I use everything I buy, ....most of the time.

 

[Tim Cowan]

When you cause a major pile-up on the freeway because you a glimse of chrome laying in the center lane that resembles 15MM combo that needs to be rescued.

 

[blaze_125]

When you name your pets after your tools!

Kobalt and Mac if you wanted to know.

-Dane

lolo
my dog's name is ratchet

 

[thk2c]

the hole in your shoe is so big that your toe sticks out, but you spend the shoe money on some new knipex pliers.

 

[jimexcursion]

the hole in your shoe is so big that your toe sticks out, but you spend the shoe money on some new knipex pliers.

I have a pair of their cutting pliers, great for cutting mattresses up when they get wrapped around driveshafts. Gotta love working on garbage trucks.

 

[arkangel06]

I have a pair of their cutting pliers, great for cutting mattresses up when they get wrapped around driveshafts. Gotta love working on garbage trucks.

Wow I bet that would ****!

You know your a tool addict when you can look at at least 5 SO tools on your desk while typing this.

 

[Brandon_Lutz]

You know you are a tool addict when you have a bench vise bolted to your computer desk.

 

[cokeexpress]

When you open up your silverware drawer in the kitchen and it makes you feel like you are opening up a drawer to your tool box.

 

[Even 11]

You find yourself trying to catch up to trucks with utility beds in traffic to see if they have a vise on the bumper. and then try to ID the vise.

-Dane

 

[american lockpicker]

You always visit tool stores when going anywhere especially out of town.