You know you're a tool junkie when...

[MWEric]

You collect one brand of tools, fill your collection and move on to the next manufacturer.

 

[egnorant]

If you pause TV shows to check out a workbench, point out that they are using a 13/16th socket to install a carburetor, see what tools Elvis is using in the garage in Spinout or Speedway.

If you want to punch your brother because he watched a 3/4th Wright socket set with ratchet, slider bar and 11 sockets go for $8.00 at an auction while you were in the bathroom...and you have never used any 3/4th sockets in your life...even the set of Herbrand that sits in the bottom of tool chest.

If you can, at this moment, reach at least 6 tools.

If you have a special place (or 3) inside the house that everyone knows to put stray tools into.

Bruce



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[kerr]

When you cant not look at the Calls. ads on GJ everyday !

 

[JBradley500]

The tools you cary in your pockets daily are worth as much as your car.

 

[Itinker]

You know you are a tool junkie when........

...you nearly trip over yourself getting out the door to pick up a old piece of 3-phase machinery just offered to you for free. Wrestle to get it loaded and unloaded by yourself, and then struggle to create a space for it in a crowded workshop. Afterwards, you are still excited, already mentally planning a full restoration, and telling anybody and everybody who will patiently listen about your jackpot.

......And, you do not even have 3-phase power!

 

[Empty Pockets]

Normal people have pictures of their family on their smartphone. Tool junkies have pictures of their tools on their smartphone.

I thought I was the only one

 

[angelis745]

You know you're a tool junkie when you receive a letter from Toolanon. Alcoholic's Anonymous sister organization, and they want you to sit in on an intervention

 

[leg17]

Whenever I'm in the tool aisle and see a guy over 80, I just want to ask him what he's in looking for.

When the guys that retired when you did are selling their tools and you are still browsing eBay buying more.

 

[winlinmac]

When you try to purchase at least one tool from every known Brand, even though those tool purchases overlap with existing tools (just different brand) in your current toolbox.

 

[winlinmac]

Also, when you spend way too much time on the forums, especially the Hot Deals Section

 

[David Paul]

When your missing 1 (7 mm) nut driver out of a set,, and you buy a complete new set so they all match......

 

[egnorant]

You know you're a tool junkie when you receive a letter from Toolanon. Alcoholic's Anonymous sister organization, and they want you to sit in on an intervention

And you go because you might pick up some of the tools that these quitters are trying to avoid!

 

[Rileysan]

When you walk into your favorite thrift store and the people standing in the tool & hardware aisle causes you anxiety.

1-1/2" socket is used to remove some hot water heating elements. We have very hard water around here, the minerals will build up on the element until it shorts out. One of my buddies is currently borrowing mine. Maybe I need a back up...

Yes! This was the justification I used to buy my 1/2" drive S-K large socket set (1 1/4" - 1 1/2") ~20 years ago.

Brian

 

[Smokeshow69]

When you walk into a pawn shop and they guys there know you by first name and also grab tools from behind the counter for you to look through first before they put them out ...You also know you are a tool junkie when your 2 1/2 year old son knows more tool names and car names than most grown men

 

[ilovevocs]

These are great.

My problem is like the wash, rinse, repeat on the back of the shampoo bottle; its an infinite loop with no end in site.

more tools, more tools storage, repeat.

My wife calls it organized hording.

 

[cgrutt]

Side step, not a hijack.
The granite installer used this today.
I have to have one.
I've never seen one, have no idea how to search for it.
It appears to have been forged from a pry bar.
Has a spade, but flat, head with nail pull slots on each side.
24" long.
I'm sure it will slap the teeth out of me on its first use....
I... Cannot... Resist.....

Not the same but pretty close http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dasco-Pro-640-High-Carbon-24-Shingle-Ripper-Pry-Bar-Blue-/301499712160

 

[cgrutt]

I bought it. ��
Thanks for doing the lookup.
$23.50 shipped.
I'll let my dentist know I'll be seeing him soon....

Damn, now I've got to have it

 

[mnoeltne]

When you re-arrange your schedule so you can get home before your wife. Just to get the box of tools you bought off the porch before she arrives.

 

[neonlazer]

When you guy an entire line of hammers in multiple colors. @Strouty

 

[48548]

When you re-arrange your schedule so you can get home before your wife. Just to get the box of tools you bought off the porch before she arrives.

This is what I am talking about.

 

[red73mustang]

You drive all the way from New Jersey to Southern Illinois to buy a $600 air compressor that costs you $400 in gas round trip!

 

[egnorant]

When you re-arrange your schedule so you can get home before your wife. Just to get the box of tools you bought off the porch before she arrives.

Or you have a special table where she knows to set those boxes she finds on the porch before you get home!

 

[woody 73]

You drive all the way from New Jersey to Southern Illinois to buy a $600 air compressor that costs you $400 in gas round trip!

Not as bad but I just drove 110 miles one way to buy a used tool box and my friends think I am nuts...Darn $400 in gas and a **** load of miles they would have put you away in the loony bin But I understand the tool sickness first hand!

 

[jt777]

This is kinda scary. I do most of these things minus everything involving a wife,....actually i do the same thing but it's due to my parents

 

[cgrutt]

I bought one of those pry bars today lol. Got my fix

 

[bryan750]

you discover you have 10 different #2 screwdrivers from 10 different tool companies and you are still looking for the perfect #2 screwdriver just knowing the next one will be it.

 

[JBradley500]

When you re-arrange your schedule so you can get home before your wife. Just to get the box of tools you bought off the porch before she arrives.

Shame on you!

 

[georgiadave]

Side step, not a hijack.
The granite installer used this today.
I have to have one.
I've never seen one, have no idea how to search for it.
It appears to have been forged from a pry bar.
Has a spade, but flat, head with nail pull slots on each side.
24" long.
I'm sure it will slap the teeth out of me on its first use....
I... Cannot... Resist.....

It is for removing shingles by slipping under the damaged shingle and cutting the nails.

 

[3baygarage]

....when the furnace repairman comes to your house and accidentally drops a small metal object inside the furnace ... and you happen to have an extendable pick up magnet laying on the table two feet away. Not that it belongs on the table, or you remember putting it on the table, or you even want it there, luckily it just happens to be there and not obstructed by other tools at the moment.

 

[66354dream]

When you started an exact same thread titled exactly the same just a few months ago

 

[mr57]

When the first thing you do when you wake up Friday morning is go straight to the new Canadian Tire flyer on the computer....

 

[dutchgray]

It is for removing shingles by slipping under the damaged shingle and cutting the nails.

Known as a slate hook over here for the same task with a slate roof.

 

[winlinmac]

*cough*

Originally Posted by mnoeltne View Post
When you re-arrange your schedule so you can get home before your wife. Just to get the box of tools you bought off the porch before she arrives.

Shame on you!

 

[winlinmac]

Wake up every morning and head over to the Hot Deal's Section on The Garage Journal, particularly, eBay & Amazon threads

Wake up every morning and head over to Slickdeals.net and search for hot deal threads with the "Craftsman" / "Sears" tag

How many combination pliers do we need? One for the kitchen, one for the toolbox, one for the car's emergency toolbox = well said and done. Win-Win for me.

When the first thing you do when you wake up Friday morning is go straight to the new Canadian Tire flyer on the computer....

 

[Sugarfryz]

You're in the tool aisle, see two people talking about a tool, join the conversation uninvited and unwanted.

 

[egnorant]

When you go to 3 estate sales in one day and buy tools that you have no idea what they do and are anxious to get home and look them up!

Todays haul...

I spent more on lunch!

Bruce

P.S. I looked them up! The brass one is called a Roto-Snip made in Dallas Texas in the 40s and the other is a tappet adjusting tool no. 825 from Zim MFG. made in Chicago

 

[Soslow]

You know you're a junkie when you've got so many tools you can't even get into your garage to use them

 

[Jim Diesel]

When u perfer to read a tool catalog then a **** mag.

 

[Lassen Forge]

When you hear the new SO catalog is out, and you are out at 7AM on your day off waiting for the SO guy to show up at 10 to get the new catalog... which then goes in it's allotted space on your shop bench or desk, within easy reach... and the old, dog eared and worn out one goes in the reading library with the other 20 back issues... as tool ****.

 

[Finky198]

When u perfer to read a tool catalog then a **** mag.

I am so guilty of this. I look though snap on catalog more than I do the stack of maxim and sports illustrated sitting right next to them.

Im also guilty of spending way to much time on here but what can I say it could be worse...