I usually know what I have got, but don't know where it is! This includes tools and material. My classic was ball joint splitters. I had to clear my workshop during building an upper story on the top of it. I found 8 ball joint splitters! I needed one for my MGB a couple of months ago and! could not find a single one, so no 9 was purchased.

Andrew.

The stupid thing is when you have an item to put away safe,, what do you always say to oneself. I'll put it where I can find it. I won't forget where I put that. Gone forever. Pixies in the garage I reckon. It can't be me as I don't forget things. !!!!.

The worst thing is that you know exactly where the tool was before you had the clear up. However it is very satisfying when you can go straight to an item that you haven't used for five years and it is exactly there where it is supposed to be.

I share my workshop with a freezer that is an overflow for the one located in the kitchen which means that the other half visits my workshop when she needs items from the freezer; she constantly harasses me about the tidiness or lack of in my workshop. This goes on for so long until she decides a tidy up is called for, to preserve cordial relations I agree and move things around to resemble some form of order, the problem is that from that point on I cannot find things that I need. The workshop may have looked disorganised before the tidy up but I could invariably find items as and when I needed to, afterwards no chance, I similarly end up ordering tools that I know I have but have disappeared.
Dave W