What the **** happened?

[EddieWalker]

I'd clean it up, and one week later, lts like this again. View attachment 633512

How many days are in one of your weeks?

 

[fried1765]

I use to be very organized. I'd clean it up, and one week later, lts like this again. Does getting old mean you lose your ability to put things away, or is it that you are just too tired and say to yourself that you will take care of it the next day. I don't know. All the projects got done, and usually on a moments notice, yet I can't even use this bench anymore. I've lost control of it. Wondering if others have the same experience. View attachment 633512

Similar situation with me....but worse!
I am in my 80th year, so I really don't give a sh** how it looks.

 

[TractorGuy]

I only clean a work surface when I need to use it. I have gotten a little better about leaving it messy but not much.

 

[fried1765]

I only clean a work surface when I need to use it. I have gotten a little better about leaving it messy but not much.

That's too much work!
I just push some sh** aside

 

[Industrial Toys]

I love clean tidy places, but my benches ALWAYS seem to look like that. In the moment, it's just important to get things done, never mind putting things away or tidying up.

A sign in my basement workshop proclaims "Better A Creative Mess, than Tidy Idleness"

Part of my problem is space. Storage space in particular and if I need something I have to move five things or boxes out of the way to get at what I want, which will usually not be the right thing anyway, and nothing gets put back.

 

[Budweiser John]

Getting older does present a whole new challenges like memory and eyesight. While I was still working i’de drag stuff home from worksites and stash it where ever and generally remember what I did with it when it came time to retrieve that special treasure.
Now, with declining memory and eyesight my treasure hunts are longer and are usually interpreted by memory lapses of what the heck I was looking for.
Recently the good spouse has been on my case to get rid of stuff. I told her turn about is fair play and when she gives up a mountain of cook books, clothing, and trinkets i’ll Think about scrapping my collections of hardware, pipe fittings, steel, and lumber.
So far, the status quo rules,

B. John

 

[bcp]

 

[Diggin It]

Workbenches and tool cabinets are like sheds and barns. The bigger you make'em, the more stuff they collect.

 

[turnkey4099]

I was looking for my 3/8 box end the other day. looked everywhere, no find. Finally out of desperation I looked in the tool cabinet drawer whee it belonged. There it was.

 

[Doofy]

I was looking for my 3/8 box end the other day. looked everywhere, no find. Finally out of desperation I looked in the tool cabinet drawer whee it belonged. There it was.

Darn things are always in the last place you look.

 

[timbatrader]

A clean bench in my workshop is a bad sign If there is something that needs doing that I am avoiding I tend to clean up and have a general tidy up as a way of delaying doing the task I should be doing so if everything is tidy some unpleasant task is being avoided

 

[fried1765]

I was looking for my 3/8 box end the other day. looked everywhere, no find. Finally out of desperation I looked in the tool cabinet drawer whee it belonged. There it was.

The quick answer when unable to readily find any particular wrench is to just buy another one.
Then you will promptly find the original one.

 

[dasranger]

“If you can’t see it, you don’t own it.”
Peg Board is your answer. Anywhere you can hang it.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Not sure about that. I try and take one thing off a crowded pegboard and three things fall down. Then I get rather annoyed! Usually, so much so, I don't even bother to pick up the stuff that fell. What's the point? They will just fall down again.

But I am planning to dispose of any hooks that don't have two engaging hooks. The single ones suck!

 

[dasranger]

I wouldn’t have it any other way. Have you tried the plastic anchors?

 

[poncho62]

As I got older, I got more fussy about cleanliness, putting stuff away etc...COPD I guess. My wife lost her debit card yesterday. It freaked me out, more so than her.

 

[Alien]

I use to be very organized. I'd clean it up, and one week later, lts like this again. Does getting old mean you lose your ability to put things away, or is it that you are just too tired and say to yourself that you will take care of it the next day. I don't know. All the projects got done, and usually on a moments notice, yet I can't even use this bench anymore. I've lost control of it. Wondering if others have the same experience. View attachment 633512

Oh yeah! Its late now or I would take a photo of mine and I am sure you would feel much better. In fact mine is so bad I dont need to talk myself out of doing those projects anymore because I just cant do them. No room.

 

[Gem99ultra]

I'd go totally bezerk with a work bench looking like that. Honestly, I live by a saying that my Grandpa passed on to me:


"Never put away your tools until the job is completely done."
and
"A job is never done until the tools are all put back in their places."

Yeah, that practice drives my SO crazy, but it sure pays off when the next project is ready to start. I'm quite sure that I'm in the minority.

 

[Richard]

Reminds me of a conversation I once had with my father regarding trash cans.....

He said his opinion was, if you added a second or third trash can (like a second or third shelf) you will simply end up with two or three times the amount of trash (clutter)....

Made sense to me and now, I witness my wife.... every room has a trash can. Kitchen has FOUR (for separating plastics, cardboard....) and now taking the trash out has become it's own project.

 

[jgedmond]

Reminds me of a conversation I once had with my father regarding trash cans.....

He said his opinion was, if you added a second or third trash can (like a second or third shelf) you will simply end up with two or three times the amount of trash (clutter)....

Made sense to me and now, I witness my wife.... every room has a trash can. Kitchen has FOUR (for separating plastics, cardboard....) and now taking the trash out has become it's own project.

:laughing: About a year ago, I researched trash cans, bags etc to come up with a better system. Simple Human with Hippo bags in the kitchen and Brute outside (with its custom fitting bags) for food trash. Big cardboard box in the garage for burn barrel stuff and Hefty bag out there for non-food trash (mainly rinsed out milk jugs and similar stuff) that can be set out without a can since animals won't mess with it.