In the hardware department at Canadian Tire where I'll be wearing the red shirt later today, we sell a lot of rather outstandingly compact & organized toolkits in moulded plastic cases. The quality of the tools is less a factor than that they're (almost) all there and you open the box and you can find them, use them, then put them away. Also, they're WAY A LOT CHEAPER than buying individual tools as you need them, and throwing them in a big red box (or some corner of your house) where you spend all your time looking for them.

But the upshot of this is that I carry two toolboxes around in my vehicle (car tools only, not when I'm actually working): one is the 177 piece kit, the other is the old red box that has the disarrayed stuff I've collected over the years and figure I might need.

I'm forever nostalgic for the old hithchiking days. Not for the hitchhiking, just for being able to fit all my essentials into a pack and a guitar case. Them days are gone...

W-O