Ya' know when you lose something...

...how you find it the day after you buy a new one. This happened to me again.

Last year, my 1gb flash drive went missing around Thanksgiving. On my way to work on Black Friday I stopped in to Wal-mart and picked up a 2gb stick for $12. A few days later I found my missing flash drive.

And it happened again. Both my 1 and 2gb sticks where missing. I picked up a 4gb stick for $9 yesterday. In the past hour I randonly found both of my missing flash drives. It never fails.

Discusse, has this happened to you, and the amazing price drop in flash drives, 512 mb $40 in feb '05(sandisk), 1gb $20 aug '06(memorex), 2gb $12 B.F. '07(impact), 4gb $9 B.F. '08(sandisk)

It's one of Murphy's Laws. I'm pretty sure it happens to everyone.

OTOH, I wish I could buy a 2gig Memeory Stick (Sony) for 12 bucks!

NYG95GA wrote: It's one of Murphy's Laws. I'm pretty sure it happens to everyone. OTOH, I wish I could buy a 2gig Memeory Stick (Sony) for 12 bucks!

they had 4gb on sale at office max yesterday morning for $9.99. they had a bucket full at 8:30am when I stopped in........

for me, it's #2 Phillips screwdrivers...

I've got 2 gas cans, 2 claw hammers, 2 bottles of antifreeze, 5, yeah FIVE keys to the car (tho only 1 car)....well, you get the idea.

The other day I couldn't find my spring loaded center punch. i searched high and low, tore the garage apart, no punch. So a few hours later I was in Lowe's and happened to spot one hanging in the tool aisle. I picked it up, put it down, repeat several times (I'm sure the loss prevention people were training laser scopes on me) because I know damn good and well if I don't buy it I'll never find the other one but if I do buy it the other one will materialize.

So I finally bought it, drove home just KNOWING I'd find the other one. Set it on the bench, still in the package, search the garage one more time because if I find the other one I can take this one back if the package is OK. No center punch. So I rip the blister pack open, make sure it works and drop it in my drill drawer of the toolbox. I walk out past the lathe, look down: sure enough, there's the other one sitting in the chip tray.

akamcfly wrote: for me, it's #2 Phillips screwdrivers...

No, those disappear forever!

I have bought 2 large set of Phillips in the past 2 years and I am down to 2 screwdrivers again. And this time the kids are gone so I can't blame them.

Oh dear God, don't get me started. My collection of 10 & 12mm sockets rivals Fort Knox's collection of gold bricks.

Jay wrote: Oh dear God, don't get me started. My collection of 10 & 12mm sockets rivals Fort Knox's collection of gold bricks.

I'll see your 12/10mm collection and raise you my fleet of 13mms...

They all go to the Great Automotive Black Hole, which has nooks and crannies all over cardom. One of which is the space between the frame rail on BMWs (mostly 2002s but all of them do it...)and the front of the unit body...

Some place in my house or my shed, is a brand new nut splitter, still in the package, I got for xmas last year. I refuse to buy another until I find it....and I really could have used it many times this year.

carguy123 wrote: No, those disappear forever!

Not mine. They go AWOL when I need one, and I'm tripping over them when I don't. Same goes for measuring tapes and anything usable on 10mm bolt heads - unless it's 1/2" drive...

I could throw my 1/2" drive 10mm socket off a bridge and it would beat me home.

Nail clippers.

They reappear in very large numbers, then fall back into a rift of time until I buy another pair.

In a similar vein, I've found that if I take a tool or part out of my workvan while staightening up (because I haven't needed it on a job for 6 months), that the VERY NEXT JOB will require it.

Weird how that works; there again, one of Murphy's Laws.

akamcfly wrote:

carguy123 wrote: No, those disappear forever!

Not mine. They go AWOL when I need one, and I'm tripping over them when I don't. Same goes for measuring tapes and anything usable on 10mm bolt heads - unless it's 1/2" drive... I could throw my 1/2" drive 10mm socket off a bridge and it would beat me home.

I have to agree that phillips head screwdrivers disappear forever. I bet I've had at least 200 in my lifetime, but right now I'm down to somewhere around 3.

Who has a 1/2" drive 10mm? That seems about like to most pointless socket ever made. I think the smallest 1/2" drive stuff I have is 13mm, and even that's a bit small for half inch drive.

16vCorey wrote: Who has a 1/2" drive 10mm? That seems about like to most pointless socket ever made. I think the smallest 1/2" drive stuff I have is 13mm, and even that's a bit small for half inch drive.

Think Crapsman 275 piece tool set. They always include a few dumb things. I don't know what they were smoking when they spec'd it in the set. Yes I've used it, but only when I can't find the 3/8" or 1/4" stuff - which is too often.

I have noticed this phenomenon also. It is weird.

For my husband it is a three way allen wrench, looks like a "Y". He must have a dozen and he is never the one losing them it's his co-workers. Go figure.

For me, it is my trusty little pocket knife that likes to take a tour of the washer every now and again. When I lose it, I just wait until all my jeans have made it through the wash and there it is again. The first time I lost it I did buy another one, so I keep that one in a drawer, just in case.

They even have a 9mm 1/2" drive. I don't know if I have one though.... Only good when you can't find anything else, or you really need that bolt head torn off.

I came to the conclusion a long time ago that Sharpie markers are highly unstable and have a half-life of something like one hour and 38 minutes. They just dissappear so quickly around a shop.

Ink pens. The reason why you can never find one when you need one is because they are all at my house.

I bought a left hand drill bit set. I set it out so I could use it on a project and then couldn't find it. I spent like a month avoiding buying another set because I knew the "old" set (one bit had been used one time) was somewhere. I finally broke down and spend the $8 on another set. I still haven't found the old one...

The #2 philips drill/driver bits for doing deck and drywall screws are EVERYWHERE around my place...but never where I can find them when I need them.

Clem

ClemSparks wrote: The #2 philips drill/driver bits for doing deck and drywall screws are EVERYWHERE around my place...but never where I can find them when I need them. Clem

I but the tins and boxes of them almost every time I go out, but I don't think I've ever used more than two from a package.

I also have gone through about 100 Wheelchair lift keys at work. I loan them out, leave them on buses, break them off unjaming things. Luckily they are cut from old style GM blanks so I had a friend cut a bunch for me.

For me its lighters. I buy a new one and the old one turns up.

Lost and found. http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2008/11/27/7554116-sun.html

Cheers Ron

10 mm open ended wrench.

neon4891 wrote: ...how you find it the day after you buy a new one. This happened to me again. Last year, my 1gb flash drive went missing around Thanksgiving. On my way to work on Black Friday I stopped in to Wal-mart and picked up a 2gb stick for $12. A few days later I found my missing flash drive. And it happened again. Both my 1 and 2gb sticks where missing. I picked up a 4gb stick for $9 yesterday. In the past hour I randonly found both of my missing flash drives. It never fails. (sandisk)

Are you trying to build a ghetto Skynet?

Appleseed wrote:

neon4891 wrote: ...how you find it the day after you buy a new one. This happened to me again. Last year, my 1gb flash drive went missing around Thanksgiving. On my way to work on Black Friday I stopped in to Wal-mart and picked up a 2gb stick for $12. A few days later I found my missing flash drive. And it happened again. Both my 1 and 2gb sticks where missing. I picked up a 4gb stick for $9 yesterday. In the past hour I randonly found both of my missing flash drives. It never fails. (sandisk)

Are you trying to build a ghetto Skynet?

No, Im looking at a mini laptop and i know aguy who knows a guy that can strip a flash drive and install it inside a mini laptop as a second hard drive