BS: Best Tools in the Toolbox?

Subject: BS: Best Tools in the Toolbox?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 22 Feb 09 - 11:37 AM

I'm mindful this AM (and making phone calls) of so many wonderful tools that have been given to me, that are absolutely essential to doing pretty much everything I am trying to do these days.

<> Shoes to "Guide my feet, while I run this race." My MIL gave me a pair of SAS shoes years ago. Maybe two. We bought a few more pairs. Cannot work without them, for long anyhow!

<> Notebook to take my wisdom portably into places I am now begged to go. It even burns CDs so I can leave prezzies behind. (Not music CDs-- data.) But it has lovely sound to entertain me with music, too. No Solitaire, LOL, so no time-wasting! :~)

<> A Sandisk flash key, ditto, that Hardi gave me for my birthday a few years ago. Don't tell him I lost it, but till it turns up there's the cheapie I picked up lat week. (When his turns up, I'll give the cheapie away with gift-files.)

<> Life lessons. Really oughtta write them down.... someday....


You? What do you rely upon, that came via gift?

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Best Tools in the Toolbox?
From: artbrooks
Date: 22 Feb 09 - 12:29 PM

Jenn, my wife of 39 years, is the best gift I ever had or expect to have. I generally buy my own stuff.

Subject: RE: BS: Best Tools in the Toolbox?
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 22 Feb 09 - 02:07 PM

How can you top that?

Subject: RE: BS: Best Tools in the Toolbox?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 22 Feb 09 - 02:08 PM

Mudcat is for sharing, not topping.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Best Tools in the Toolbox?
From: kendall
Date: 22 Feb 09 - 08:27 PM

Years ago my daughter, Debra, gave me a Swiss army knife. Most useful tool ever.

Next to that, my battery powered drill/screwdriver.

Subject: RE: BS: Best Tools in the Toolbox?
From: Bert
Date: 22 Feb 09 - 08:50 PM

Mudcat is for sharing, not topping

That is a thought to remember.

Subject: RE: BS: Best Tools in the Toolbox?
From: Gurney
Date: 22 Feb 09 - 09:18 PM

The most useful practical tools I own are two screwdrivers, which have reversible shafts and at each end of the shaft, reversible tips.
Two screwdrivers, eight tips, two sizes each of square, pozidriv, phillips, and plain. Indispensible and tough.

Subject: RE: BS: Best Tools in the Toolbox?
From: kendall
Date: 22 Feb 09 - 09:27 PM

Nut drivers that fit my drill.

Subject: RE: BS: Best Tools in the Toolbox?
From: Bobert
Date: 22 Feb 09 - 09:45 PM

All ya' really need to get thru life are two tools... A hammer and a...


































...bigger hammer...

LOL

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Best Tools in the Toolbox?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 23 Feb 09 - 08:57 AM

It's a tie between spring clamps and bungee cords.

Subject: RE: BS: Best Tools in the Toolbox?
From: CarolC
Date: 23 Feb 09 - 09:25 AM

Power drill (with cord), power sander, skilsaw, table saw, stud finder, LED headlight, and assorted carpenter squares.

Subject: RE: BS: Best Tools in the Toolbox?
From: GUEST,HiLo
Date: 26 Feb 09 - 11:44 AM

I have a brace and bit that belonged to my grandfather, it is over a hundred years old and I still use it regularly. It goes everywhere and needs no power or batteries, it is silent, it does good work and it looks beautiful.

Subject: RE: BS: Best Tools in the Toolbox?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 26 Feb 09 - 11:50 AM

he he he...

Subject: RE: BS: Best Tools in the Toolbox?
From: Alice
Date: 26 Feb 09 - 11:52 AM

laptop

Subject: RE: BS: Best Tools in the Toolbox?
From: Charmion
Date: 26 Feb 09 - 12:29 PM

The iPod that Edmund gave me for Christmas in 2006. Without it, I could never stand more than 10 minutes on the elliptical trainer, and my lungs would be muskeg and my legs would be cooked noodles.

Subject: RE: BS: Best Tools in the Toolbox?
From: Alice
Date: 26 Feb 09 - 12:36 PM

speaking of shoes... my Dansko shoes - the only kind I've found that keep the foot pain away. I could barely walk from pain until I found Danskos.

Subject: RE: BS: Best Tools in the Toolbox?
From: Amos
Date: 26 Feb 09 - 02:09 PM

1. My iPhone
2. My big Mac dual porcessor Intel-based computer with Cinema display.
3. My very cool Bandsaw, an Xmas gift from an enlightened mother-in-law.
4. My universally handy all-in-one electric screwdrive.
5. My Martin.
6. Google.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Best Tools in the Toolbox?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 26 Feb 09 - 03:06 PM

My MIND, nyah nyah!

:~)

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Best Tools in the Toolbox?
From: Amos
Date: 26 Feb 09 - 04:28 PM

SOrry I overlooked it!! Nyah nyah.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Best Tools in the Toolbox?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 26 Feb 09 - 04:49 PM

Look how long I overlooked it myself! :~)

~S~