o/t looking for things

730virgil · Mar 28, 2017

local radio station this morning reported average person spends 12 weeks a year looking for things they can't find.
also explains why i'm always tired

kcm.MN · Mar 28, 2017

I spend more time than that looking. ...My wife likes to "help" me by rearranging things the way SHE can find it. Then we both forget and eventually we just give up looking and buy it again. *lol*

rrlund · Mar 28, 2017

Sounds like some people have too much stuff if it takes that long to find it. My motto of course,if it's laying in the middle of the floor so I trip over it,I know where it is.

Elmo · Mar 28, 2017

If you lose something and really want to find it just go and buy another one. When you get home it will be on your workbench in plain sight. I have duplicates and triplicates of several tools that I lost and searched for extensively.
Elmo

Russ from MN · Mar 28, 2017

I have a theory that when I loose something I clean up until I find it, by the looks of my shop I haven't lost anything for awhile!

dcarp · Mar 28, 2017

SWMBO does the same thing, makes me wish I could lock her out of the shop. She'll use something, then put it back where she thinks it should go, not where she got it from.

Steve@Advance · Mar 28, 2017

I suspect that number is really low for people like us.

There are a lot of people averaged in there that don't own more than a hand full of tools, never go anywhere near a work shop, never do any of their own repairs.

Their lost items consist of keys, socks, I pads, and check books!

CGID · Mar 28, 2017

12 weeks/year = 84 days lost annually while looking for things.
Every year I lose at least that much time fixing mistakes.
These total up to losing 168 productive days annually.
I have weekends to get things done - 104 days/year.
Optimistically, I won't get even half of these days to myself.
Round it off to a maximum of 50 days a year to get things done.
50 days for progress vs. 168 days going backwards.
This explains why I complete 1/3 of my projects.

lpgasonly · Mar 28, 2017

I JUST GO BUY A NEW ONE. I WILL TRIP OVER THE LOST ONE WHEN I GET HOME WITH THE NEW ONE I JUST BOUGHT.
SAVES TIME LOOKING.

SweetFeet · Mar 28, 2017

I am probably above average.

On a positive note... at least I excell at something!

centralilbaler · Mar 28, 2017

that leaves me 11 weeks and 6 1/2 days to find my oil filter wrench
plenty of time

Fawteen · Mar 28, 2017

Moonlite37 · Mar 28, 2017

The reason you and most other posters spend so much time looking for things is because you go about it bassakkerds, Without a doubt you fine them at the last place you looked for them. I am going to start looking at the last place first and save a lotta time

Rons b · Mar 28, 2017

I just spent an hour looking for a new Spray Gun still in the box. Searched the shop then search the yard because the dog steals things of the bench and nothing. then walked over to the work bench and there on the shelf in plain site it sate.
That is the frustrating part finding it right in front of you.

kcm.MN · Mar 28, 2017

(quoted from post at 14:04:40 03/28/17) The reason you and most other posters spend so much time looking for things is because you go about it bassakkerds, Without a doubt you fine them at the last place you looked for them. I am going to start looking at the last place first and save a lotta time

I tried that one time. ...I got lost! :-/

NEKS · Mar 28, 2017

Can't find mine, go to town and buy another, get home use it and now I am going to put it where I can remember I put it. I'll be d^mn there is the one I was looking for.

o/t looking for things

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