Sick of second hand life? So was I.
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- Опубликовано: 13 мар 2024
- JUNK SCREWS: There comes a time in life when you need to sort your shit. In my case, screws and nails and hardware and a wide variety of weird stuff I’ll never use. Occupying opportunistics homes in yogurt containers, hats, shoe boxes and green bags, it’s fair to say my weakness for a second hand screw means they’ve infiltrated every bloody corner of the farm. That’s what this simple film is about; spending the day in the barn sorting my second hand stuff into neat second hand containers. Let’s be clear, I’ll never turn my back on old, recycled, reclaimed, weird and even impractical bits and bobs, but creating order for such kaos is a false, wicked, economy.
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Produced by
BEAU MILES
MITCH DRUMMOND
Final Sound Mix
JAMES DOBSON
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I made two films out of this fiscally inefficient day- the other is on my second channel ‘beauisms’: ruclips.net/video/s10qUls4Z4Y/видео.html
I am elated to know I can absorb more Beau.
Beauisms 😂❤ I'm there!
Wait, WHAT?! You have a second channel?! Twice the Beau? Deux Beau?
WHAT!!!!!! A "second channel"? How have I just learned this glorious news (on a right miserable dreich
Scottish morning).
Beau! I am very curious about that beautiful piece of wood standing behind you with the Bowtie in it, where did ya find that?
My dad gave me a bunch of boxes of his collection of second hand screws and nails. I once spent an entire weekend sorting through them all. I cannot begin to describe the pleasure and connection I feel when I go to do a project and think 'oh, I don't need to buy screws. Dad's got me'.
I didn't keep all of my parents' nails and screws, but I did keep a few old baby food jars full plus a small organizer. Every time I use something from those I feel a little gratitude and connection 😊
I do that, but with my grandmother’s button tin 🤗
Having the absolute pleasure to be one of your students, knowing the change that the Uni made was mind boggling. But knowing that your motivation and passion is now reaching the world, incredible. Reason I’m so passionate about teaching Outdoor Ed across junior and senior school in Victoria
I immediately came to the comments looking for information about what 'being sacked' meant. Any chance you could share information with someone who has a masochistic desire for information about the short-sighted way australian universities 'restructure'.
Did Beau stand for medical freedom and that’s why he was sacked? I’d be mighty proud of him if he did.
@@seanogrady2908being sacked means you got fired from your job 😢
@@seanogrady2908 Pretty sure the Uni just moved away from Outdoor Ed. Was a smaller department but one of the most recognised qualifications in the country. Guessing it was just bleeding money
Please organise all you ‘junk’, so fun to watch! Feels like i’m doing it myself.
"Probably a Catholic bed, probably 15 kids came from this bolt being bent" being raised Catholic, I laughed so hard!!! Love it!
how many siblings do you have
i was raised catholic in a mostly catholic area. Went right over my head. Must either be an old stereotype or one that doesnt apply to eastern us
@@jkromes20 Would say it's fairly accurate for the Netherlands at least, my mom was one of 7 and that was small in the family back then lol
Quite a leap to assume the kids enjoyed it too
@@fredpilk7759 It's a joke, what i assume be it good or bad would be completely irrelevant. I just stated that the joke holds true for my family.
Stop seeing a problem in everything
Only Beau Miles could make a 7 minute video of sorting nails and screws that gets 340k views in 5 days. And I loved it. Beau Miles is our second hand hero.
'Second Hand Hero' is a great phrase. Title-worthy for one of Beau's upcoming projects!
The apple core... I thought to myself, "oh no, please dont eat that Beau" 😂
I saw a semi good looking peacherine in a dog park the other day, and I damn well nearly ate it coz I thought "Beau would eat that!" 😅 But I thought better of it!
He has eaten out of a bin before 😆
@@adventuredogs8773 you dont have to lie we all know you ate it
Lol I feel I've thought that at a number of these vids lol
I was surprised he didn't have at least a nibble 😆
This resonates. I inherited all my Dad's hardware and then realised that he'd never bothered sorting HIS dad's hardware either. (Thanks both!) But I do love going to the workshop and knowing exactly where's that weird piece of metal that Grandpa salvaged. It's so hard to walk past something that could be used for... something.
I too will be inheriting my Dad’s stuff one day, it’ll be an honour hey. 😊
I’m thankful though that during lockdown Dad spent some of that time and sorted a lot of his screws, nails and bolts into a caddy tackle box thing. Bonus that it means we can now find that stuff to use NOW! I’ve called him up and asked him to check the box for a certain screw already.
The feeling when you actually need exactly that one old piece you know is around somewhere is priceless :D
@@littleh4xx0r The worst is when you finally throw a few things out after _years_ of holding on to them "just in case"...only to find yourself in a project a few weeks later where the _perfect_ thing for the job...is the thing you just threw out 😑
@@dantizzle00i work a lot on electronics and i had to dig out an old toolbox recently so i can put all my tools in one place because every time i go home from uni i think “oh there’s no way i’ll need that tool while im home” and without fail every time ive been back so far ive left something i then need. i’m writing this in week 2 without my multimeter and it hurts.
My dad bought a tool shop once from a guy who was getting married again at age 74 (which at the time I thought was super old). Besides all the stuff in the shop the deal included his apartment upstairs. One huge room had boards over sawhorses covered in boxes. A box of hammers, boxes of screwdrivers, boxes of screws and bolts and bits. It was a hoarder's dream. I and my siblings got furniture and tools and kitchen ware to start our adult lives with. And we've all been secondhand people ever since.
When my grandpa sold his farm he had an auction. Over the years, the pigbarn and the chicken coop were converted to more parts storage. Well, piles. Parts piles. There was a particular type of converter that grandpa used in most of his tractors, and during the auction he realized he'd had 5 of them stashed away. Each was worth $3k new, $1500 used, and he'd pulled them out of old dead machines at the scrapyard for a couple hundred each. But because he could never find the things he owned, he'd spent years sourcing this darn part.
Sorry to hear about the job Beau. I hope your positive demeanour continues to be the shining beacon it appears to be in your videos!
Sorry to hear about the job decades ago 😂 get a grip
it wasnt decades ago@@leonardhpls6
@@leonardhpls6 who took a turd in your cheerios this morning
@@leonardhpls6pretty sure it wasn’t decades ago. Last year Beau did a triathlon to work from his house and that work was the university.
What happened?
My Dad was an educator and also a proud 'second-hand' man. He kept all his treasures in coffee cans, but he knew exactly what was in each one. I never went to a hardware store until he passed away. Good to you for being a proud 'second-hand' man.
Honestly one of my favourite film makers on RUclips. Second hand, pre-loved, used, but still valuable. Keep documenting your projects and telling your stories!
Netflix, if you exist, I only wish that you give Beau a weekly show🙏
I'm also a ginger and very much a second hand chick. Most of my old nails and flat head screws, etc came from my grandfather too. Several years ago I categorized all of the old nuts and bolts and screws and crap. Beau, let me tell you that the sorting isn't nearly so satisfying as going to the labelled box and finding the exact length and gauge of screw that you're looking for, without having to go to a shop. It's almost worth cracking a beer over, it feels that good.
Amen sister!
Wonderful job!
That's right!!! Consider the time and fuel required to go to the hardware store to find that one single screw that is existing somewhere in the stash that you already have!!! Organization is *PRICELESS!!!*
After 5 years, i just realised Beau doesnt ask to like and subscribe
Doesn't need to 😉
LOL!! There's another Beau that does (doesn't) do that too!
So, you just drop "I was sacked from my well paying uni job" into the video with no follow-up?!?!?!?!? Should I be organising a protest demonstration from almost the other side of the world (UK)?!?!?!?
I was about to conclude "hoarder", but my Father-in Law bought screw jars at garage sales. When we were clearing out his house, they wanted to throw out about 15 jars. I caught so much abuse, took them home and sorted them over a few nights while enjoying some beers and thinking of my Father in Law!
I just spent the past 4 days cleaning out my shed to try and get it to the point I could put a vehicle in it. So, I too have been doing fastener sorting out of necessity.
My wife said I should chuck it all out, but a lot of stuff in there is still good and might come in handy one day. It did... for making shelves to stack the boxes of crap on.
I have managed to throw some stuff out and my grandfather would be turning in his grave. He never threw anything away, just built more sheds.
lmao sounds like my dad "just builds more sheds"
Oh Beau, now I know what I look like... my Dad passed away in 2016 and I'm still sorting through all his "recycled" stuff... I even built a big shed to store all the stuff in... and I'm loving every minute of it. Note: I have a container labelled "no bloody idea" and go through it every now and again with visiting friends to figure out what the hell I have :)
We had to bring in a Ducati mechanic and an insurance guy to even know what we had after my dad died. It turned out to be 2.85 fully disassembled but still ridiculously expensive bikes.
im dreading the day i have to do dads workshop... a two story four car garage with lathes, cnc mills, drill presses and boxes stacked to the roof, even the roof has stuff stored across it.
I am most of the way through my dad's basement doing this same task and more. It's a mixed blessing that he's still alive - I'd of course keep him around as long as I can, but that means you have use way more scrutiny over the stuff you send to the rubbish. I would have loved to finish in six hours - it was more than six days but less than six weeks. He doesn't know I've done it yet either so the jury's out on what I've done.
Unlike Beau, I pitched all the flat head screws - they are the worst.
hahaha that gave me a good smile@@robgriffin4801
Sorry for you loss, but having this stuff is amazing isn’t it?
And going through it fron time to time feels like a time machine back to that time where we stood next to our father when he was sorting through piles of stuff to find this one item to complete the work on a saturday afternoon.
Greetings from switzerland!
Well Beau, I'm a dudette that has the very same problem as you do. Grew up on a farm, we repurposed everything. Things that do not have a partner of even numerous family mates I hang on a big board, like that small pulley. Easy to look for when it might be needed because you never know.😉 And also on a sadder note lost my job of 26 years that I dearly loved, for me it was like a death of who I was as a person. I enjoy your videos and think you are very talented in many ways. I'm positive in time you find another position. cheers!!
DELIGHTFUL hoard sorting, gosh I just love heaps of jumbled up junk and whatnots. Top notch mate!
Beau! This is way better than watching a train travel through Norway. I absolutely love doing similar things to what you do. Every Saturday I go up the bush on my bike and collect all the different thing I can’t find. I’m only fourteen but I bloody love you mate keep up the good work!👍
There's a metaphysical anomaly here.
thats awesome mate, when i was your age i was out bush all the time.. some of the best times! im 35 now and still doing it! Keep it up buddy! Great to hear
That train through the snow is pretty damn good though hey. 😂
I once bought a small pulley, convinced that it would come in useful.
It is in a container.... somewhere!
Cheers Beau.
All of us 50 myriad people just watched a man sort nails for 7 minutes. And we loved every second of it 😂😂😂
Hardware, screws are worthless unless you can find them, when you need them. Keep going!
I hope I didn’t hear you say you were sacked from your uni job , really who with an ounce of brains the drive is going to lecture my kids when they go to uni, second hand stuff will outlast the “new and improved” love your work mate keep up the content mate🙏🏻👍👍
Wikipedia says he quit the job himself, dunno who to believe
@@thennickeI’d believe what comes out of his mouth over his Wikipedia lol. Sounds like the uni axed the course/ department
@@thennicke he probably took a voluntary redundancy, a lot of the unis didn't actually fire anyone they just made it clear that if you didn't take a "voluntary" redundancy you would get fired.
@@biosparkles9442the employer he worked for is well known for employing everyone on fixed contracts (that they renew again and again) instead of continuing, so they just neglect to renew the contract if they don't want you anymore.
why? a modern university is no place for someone with as much knowledge and common sense as this guy.. they dont wanna teach anything or have any discussions.. just push an agenda and cash a cheque, dont go inspiring anyone thats dangerous
Riveting stuff Beau!
I see what you may or may not have done there, bucko
You must have a screw loose somewhere.
Nailed it
Ha!
All's weld, that ends weld?
JUST finished doing 75% of my collection, the other 25% are still in the wild waiting to be gathered. Good on ya Beau! This saves tons of ore, kilowatts of energy, thousands of shipping miles. Almost every DIYer and home handyman has that pile - most throw it out by some stage. Boo. Boo bloody hiss! And you know the best thing? As I acquire overruns from new projects, they now have a home to retire into, until I need them. You're a dead-set legend. And you gained a subscriber. Can't assist financially because that's why I have secondhand stuff around, but will link your video on one or two of my publications (blogs) related to Making and Recycling. Cheers!
Beau I was shocked when you said you had been sacked from your Uni job. I’m sorry that happened to you, it’s a shock and is very unsettling when that happens. I hope that your sunshine hasn’t been dimmed to much and an opportunity comes along that is perfect.
Some people have their job taken away from them and you cannot help but worry. Others have it taken away, and you cannot help but have a genuine excitement for whatever they are about to undertake. You can guess which camp Beau sit its...best of luck mate. Cant wait to hear about the next chapter.
This is so relatable right now. I also recently got sacked from my job. I've been organizing all kinds of stuff I've been saving over the years as well. Thanks Beau for keeping it real. I used to live in Aus and you help remind me of my time there.
I admire your patience. I have one drawer with unsorted screws and nails and have been postponing to sort them for years.
I know you can get it done this year. You got this.
I literally did this for my dad every father's day! He worked six days a week and was an elder at our church on a Sunday. So when he fixed things, built things of taught me how to use tools, he didn't have the time of sometimes the energy left to put stuff back. When he retired and moved house we had to have a tool amnesty to figure out what belonged to who and argued which project hardware or tools where bought for. I see so much of myself in you. Having made a kayak rack out of an old shop sandwich board as my first welding project aged 15. I'm 43 now and use it to put my kids kayak on the roof of my car!
Oh my god, I did this for my dad too. He had 5-6 coffee cans full of good stuff in the apartment building boiler room, but we could never find what we needed, so we'd zip to Canadian Tire nearby to buy brand new screws when he only needed one. One afternoon I sat there and sorted everything out and made him soooo happy.
Now I need to do my own sorting.
Love the transparancy in this video, sorry to hear you recently lost your job but when one door closes another one opens ❤
There’s nothing more satisfying than finding the perfect use for a 2nd hand screw 😊
I'm also a 3rd generation second hand collector who recently consolidated and sorted piles, boxes, bins, bags of fasteners. My piles were not as large as yours but close. Except to be economically positive use of time I did it in the evening after work (otherwise unpaid time) while listening to a book. It was very satisfying. Also very satisfying to be able to find 23 instead of only 12 of the right screw when I need 20.
My dad built wooden sailing boats and he had jam jars full of your stuff too. The lids were nailed to a long plank, down under in our house boat, so the jars would be hanging from them. When he needed something, he would ask me to look or sort. Never not liked doing that for him. Now, I inherited his collections together with his leftover pieces of hardwood. I love being a Second Hand guy. (It’s even rubbing off on the missus 😅)
Here's to the love of sorting small parts. I find it far easier to watch you sort than to sort my own! Warm wishes from West Yorkshire, UK
Who knew a video of Beau sorting screws was just what I needed at 7:30am on a Thursday morning. :)
Me either. Good way to start the day though
We are junk royalty! I, myself am a junk princess! You’re right it’s in our DNA. But also I was raised by depression era parents that did not throw anything away, much like your grandparents. In his retirement, my father started buying and selling. He sat up at Canton, Tx, a big flea market, for years until my brother (his partner in junkology) passed away. Then Papa just stopped with a three car storage unit full in his back yard. When he passed, it took me over a year to go through and sell most of it. But there were some things that didn’t sell and I’ve paid storage rental on that stuff plus many of my own “treasures” for over ten years. I’m now seventy years old and realizing when something happens to me that storage unit is likely to end up on an episode of Storage Wars. So, I gotta get busy! Enjoyed your video and am glad the algorithm put on my feed.
Ooh! I feel this! Great job!
Just over a month ago, I finally tackled a task I was dreading in our garage (TX, USA). I’d already triaged the space and combined like things that were previously scattered all over.
All of the loose hardware was in a big bucket. I tucked in one morning, and I got it all sorted! Took less time than I expected. Now, I haven’t utterly sorted screws by size, but that’s a task for our upcoming brutal summer.
You really NAILED this video.
There's a bit of Beau in all of us and this is why we all love you.
Is this another Catholicism joke?
Like a squirrel hiding acorns for the winter 😂
Your children will so appreciate your heroic efforts when they inherit your treasures. And think about the generations of lineage. I hope that your children have children and grandchildren to pass on great, great, great grandpa Beau's legacy. What a benefit to humanity!
It always makes me laugh when I take a moment to look at all the stuff I have gathered over the years saving materials like my dad and my granddad did knowing that most of it will never get used or I should say reused. Gathering stuff is easy and fun, but organizing it really makes you wonder about yourself. Cheers.
I've got boxes of my grandads and dads stuff I'm just adding more my kids bring stuff and chuck it in to
Those odd bolts you've been saving because "they'll be useful one day", only become useful 5 minutes after you've got rid of them.
These are the only videos I can never skip past on RUclips. 7 or 8 minutes of pure joy. Keep it up dude.
You are a child after my own heart, I am 67 now I have what you call second hand stuff from great great grandfather. And I could go on and on. 🤗❤️keep on trucking.
Die hard scrounger and scavenger here. I have several containers of screws, nails, bolts, hardware that look just like yours, and have several times thought I need to dedicate a day to just sorting it. I even have a box of old pulleys. Several old square-head bolts and nuts and even some railroad spikes. I am sure I will need them one day.
Aaaaah felt this in my bones. It’s this kind of organisation that I do at least twice a year with the garage and my cables and it still manages to feel like the blighters have been multiplying when I haven’t been looking
Hello Beau,
thank you for the journey back to my childhood in the 80s. My father was also a hoarder of everything in the workshop. Before my eyes, I was again 5 years old, sitting on the workbench, and my father pulled out drawer after drawer from a huge apothecary cabinet, and we reorganized everything. This was a task every winter that stretched over days, as boxes of rusty and bent screws needed to be sorted and straightened.
Great memory!
Sorting people’s stuff is even more satisfying. Handling something that you know they’ll never get around to, that you have no emotional attachment or complicated feelings about. Knowing they will genuinely benefit from a couple days of concentrated work. is satisfying. Sorting mail or notions for my grandmother, sorting screws and tools for my mom, or straightening up my Dad’s books shelf of random stuff is relaxing. Organizing or sorting my own is stressful. It’s easy to get hung up on the question, “Is keeping this actually reasonable, or is the space it takes up better used for something else?” When they are hip deep in some project and reach into a drawer to look for some supplies, the meticulous layout where everything is labeled and easy to find is like a quiet little reminder that I love them and value their time. Sorting is also a good task to do as parallel play with other people too.
LOL.... I feel your pain...... When you stopped sorting and straightened a nail.....that moment was gold..... I would have taken a few minutes to pick the seeds out of the apple core.....
I love your nothing goes to waste mindset. Might be a false economy but surely a sustainable one :)
Everyday I aspire to be more and more like Beau. Your 2 kids have a hell of a role model on how to be always happy with what you’ve got, no phone or fancy this, just enjoying life one action at a time. Brilliant stuff Beau 👌🏼
They do and he probably doesn't curse around them like you do.
Wow...I truly thought I was a squirrel for nuts, bolts, screws and all kinds of Stuff but you make me look like an amateur 😂😂
I did this same thing recently, mine on a slightly smaller scale, not by much, and I recycled anything that just wasn't good. It was a horrible afternoon, but immensely satisfying to have it done and all labeled. As a result, I've only purchased 1 fastener in the last couple months when I regularly work on stuff. The only reason why I had to buy that was it was a very specific machine screw. If the stuff ever gets mixed up, I'll bin it all!
Best video yet mate, salvaging and saving the old school.
On anoter note just goes 2 show where modern educatiin is going if they end your employment.
Hope you start up a home school program, even once a week mate. Your life experiences and outlook on life are priceless. We watch you as a family. 40yr old bloke 35 yr old chef 10yr old lad. Thankyou keep going.
Hi Beau
Nate from Netflix here.
We don't want to get ahead of ourselves , but after seeing this gem, Mary, Mark and the rest of the board are a little excited as to the the possibilty of a whole new niche being created.
Family, Docuseries, Crime, Action etc are all so old... We feel Random Fixings Reorganisation is the future and we'd love to have you as our marquee creator.
Stephen will be in touch, but until then, leave the mess alone.
I just got goosebumps.
Did you think you was funny when you typed that 😢
Can I suggest an 'add on' of visiting others' and helping them sort out their random fixings as well. Lots more scope for different varieties of fixings, and admiration of others collections etc
They tried it already with Marie Kondo 😂
Your collection of containers is similar to my sewing containers. I’ve sorted through buttons, snaps, pins, needles, etc. I had 12 containers with 24 spools of thread in each one. I totally understand the satisfaction of going through all your “stuff” so you know what you have
I feel so seen. 😂 I can't wait to do this. I say it every time I need to find enough screws to finish a project. My husband thinks it's funny how excited I am to finally have time to sort the hardware in our garage.
You ain't alone, I love sorting old hardware. The real old stuff is valuable, to the true refinishing craftsmen. Hard to find. Sells well on E-Bay. Plus, just go but a pack of any hardware and you'll see. Watched a guy the other day drilling pennies, cause a copper washer the same size cost a dime or more.
Yet it's illegal to destroy money.
@@poollife777 call it savings Changed not destroyed
I'm a builder... this is my life. Sorting out the pile of nails and screws and stringlines and drillbits and roofing screws all the apprentices and carpenters have emptied out of their nailbags at the end of the day. I'm basically their mum.
A square washer to end it off. It's either quite old or quite specific. Love that energy
I’ve spent years making videos and never hit the trending page and you’ve done it sorting screws. Well played 🎉🙌
Whenever I see a "Beau" video in my feed I click on it ASAP!!!! Never disappointed.
wonderful, you nailed it!
To keep me busy as a little tacker on the farm, Dad would get me to sort his piles of washers, screws, bolts and nails haha I loved it, and now I have the same pile of crap in my little shed waiting for my son to sort through it all 😄
I spent many a holiday as a kid, sorting things into tins and jars for my Dad in his shed, while he got on with repairing something or building things for us kids, I felt like we were 'working' side by side, such fond memories.
You know Beau , lotto people would say you've got a screw loose , not me mate , n this video proves it! Love ya work . Cheers ninja ginger..
Just started the video and already smiling just at the vibes
Organizing all my hardware was one of the most liberating garage tasks I've completed. It wasn't exactly fun but necessary and the feeling of being able to find what I need is unrivaled.
You have been an inspiration of mine since you paddled and cleaned the urban river. In the past year I brought back right about 100 trash bags from a few urban rivers and I know for a fact it has motivated other people to contribute. You changing your world and sharing it is helping change the world. I really hope you don't go back to your Uni career.
Thank you for making videos, you change my mindset for the better every time I watch one of them.
This is me, and i sorted through mine too. Persist in resisting this though, the only thing you can't buy more of in life is time.
"Super Odd Shit" man, we all have that box in our hardware collections, don't we?
I currently ( constantly) going through my scavenged timber and screws!! Geez I'm glad you finished that Catholic bed story that way.
Considering how much I enjoyed watching James May's "The Reassembler" I will absolutely watch this.
Your videos always inspire me to do something productive! Maybe not sort through decades worth of old screws, but you know like clean off my desk or something. Thanks!
I love building stuff out of old discarded stuff. "there is no garbage. Just old things that could be used in new ways"
Reckon everyman who has a shed does this every few years after his work bench disappears below the chaos of discarded screws, nuts & bolts...
Don't know about it being cathartic, you make even the most brain deadening of tasks enjoyable to watch with your whit and banter, keep doing what ya do Beau
Awesome that you have the space to store everything.
„Glad i found that screw“ 😅😂 Love the Humor
I think the reason I like your channel is because you're an Aussie version of my dad when I was a kid growing up in the 80s in Canada. There wasn't any nut, bolt or screw he wouldn't pick up at the side of the road to re-purpose for an undetermined future project. It drove my mom nuts. He wasn't a pack rat insomuch as he was a man with a vision for re-purposing things and reusing them before environmentalism became a word.
Long before blue boxes were cool, he used to have me go around the neighbourhood and collect glass bottles and newspapers so we could to go the one place in town that took them, just so I could get a bit of of pocket money. This was before our municipality (which ironically is responsible for the blue boxes that everyone associates with recycling the world over) started the first curbside recycling program in the entire world.
In summary, one man's garbage is another man's gold mine. I wish more people got away from the mindset of just throwing everything out. Our world would be a lot cleaner place.
You know you have an interesting personality, when you can film yourself sorting screws, and it cures your subscribers' anxiety. 🥳
1:27 you’re god damn right I will
I worked in the uni sector for 14 years and survived restructures, realignments, a sacking , corrupt and inept execs and managers. Made lifelong friends, but once you’re out, it can be the best thing that happens. I also own three generations worth of screws and nails, and tools. You know you’re a screw and bolt guy when you have whitworth, imperial, JIS and metric jars of bits and bobs.
For some reason the title of this video intrigued me…I don’t care about tools or nails or nuts…but I couldn’t stop smiling or watching this video after it started. I just subscribed…and have developed a little RUclips crush. ;-) Your wife is a lucky woman!
first?
lol I did this too. I bought a house that the previous owner didn’t clean out his collection of miscellaneous metal things. I organized every nail and screw, big and small. Over the years I’m glad I did because I’ve used a lot of it.
I bought a lot of plastic storage containers and have been organizing and labeling things. I have a way long way to go. You sure do have a lot of nails and screws. Now you will be able to find exactly what you need. Wonderful!
I did this same organization over Christmas break. Life has been so much easier.
I'm the one in my family with all the stuff left over from the grandparents, and in some cases, great and great great grandparents. Some of it is very useful, and as Beau says, you can't buy stuff as good anymore. Some of it is just junk and I'm slowly sifting through all it in shifts where my hands come out looking like his. And there's always fun anachronistic stuff, too. Like I have nails to shoes horses and a tool to take a core sample from a tree. I'll probably never do either, but it's neat.
Beau I hear you. I just drove a few half empty boxes of fifty year old nails, screws and bolts (along with other items) from my grandparents to my home (1,500 miles away) because no one else wanted them and I couldn't bear throwing them out!
I work for a small estate sale company. You’re not alone. I see garages and sheds and basements FULL of secondhand stuff. Usually the old boy (or old girl) was a garage sale junkie and transferred someone else’s junk from their house to home. Now they are dead, or in a retirement home, and the relatives aren’t going through it. Metal, including nails and screws, goes in five gallon buckets, usually goes to the scraper. So much more goes to the dump. Sad. Every once in awhile a treasure, but not as often as you would think. Enjoy your mess, and remember your kids will have to deal with it someday!
Hahaha!!! We can relate to this soooo well. We have spent the past 2 years cleaning out a family hardware store where nothing ever was thrown out. My husband has kept almost every bloody screw, nail, bolt. Not to mention the amount of screwdrivers. I’ve just showed him this video and he says “I feel his pain” 🤣
this was so pleasing to watch, thank you
I just hope this means we will get to see more and more of you Beau! ❤
Congrats on sorting organizing. I enjoy that sort of thing up to a point. I scrapped out a lot of various screws and hardware. I felt better and the shop looks nicer because of it. I now primarily have some variation of interior and exterior drywall screws, all phillips head. I sorted some more expensive stuff out into various storage containers. I have a box of hinges, brackets, etc. It make future jobs go better.
You're such a masterful storyteller...I just watched you sort screws. Bravo sir.