Author Topic: How Many Browse the Hardware store? (Read 2478 times)

RaggedEdge · « **on:** August 21, 2005, 08:59:26 am »

Have any of you done this before? I have done this several times in the last few weeks. I go to Home Depot or Lowes just to walk around and see what is on every aisle, mainly in hopes of finding something I have never seen that would apply to my arcade project. That's how I found the corner guard to use as a marquee retainer. What's even stranger is yesterday, I had an opportunity to go to Hobby Lobby (with the wife). So I just started walking around browsing. Damn, there is all kinds of usefull things there too. I found all kinds of pre-cut wooden shapes that could be used in mounting a marquee. Do any of you guys do this, or is it near the end for me?

missioncontrol · « **Reply #1 on:** August 21, 2005, 09:05:09 am »

I've done it many times...... Even before I got hooked on BYOAC I'd have other projects I'd be working on and just browse the whole store in hopes to find the one hidden thing that I didn't think of that would be perfect to use........

SirPeale · « **Reply #2 on:** August 21, 2005, 09:57:31 am »

I think a better question would be "How many weirdos here DON'T browse the hardware store?"

crashwg · « **Reply #3 on:** August 21, 2005, 10:37:58 am »

Quote from: Peale on August 21, 2005, 09:57:31 am

I think a better question would be "How many weirdos here DON'T browse the hardware store?"

I second that!

markb · « **Reply #4 on:** August 21, 2005, 12:00:13 pm »

I actually look forward to when they have a stock clearance so that there is a big dump bin to rummage through. It's much more fun than just wandering around the place.

AlanS17 · « **Reply #5 on:** August 21, 2005, 02:30:39 pm »

*raises hand*

Effayy · « **Reply #6 on:** August 21, 2005, 05:27:56 pm »

Oh hell, I just got back from browsing Home Depot about 10 minutes ago.

.... And oh, that was my weekly romp through the aisles, too.

- FA

TOK · « **Reply #7 on:** August 21, 2005, 06:52:57 pm »

I wish I could say I browsed. I always wind up buying stuff I might possibly need in 5 to 10 years.

Stingray · « **Reply #8 on:** August 22, 2005, 09:45:14 am »

That's me too. I'll buy something I've never seen before just because I think it's neat, even if I have no use for it at all.

-S

nostrebor · « **Reply #9 on:** August 22, 2005, 01:53:51 pm »

Quote from: Stingray on August 22, 2005, 09:45:14 am

That's me too. I'll buy something I've never seem before just because I think it's neat, even if I have no use for it at all.

-S

In my world this potentially useful item typically comes from the tool section, and ticks off my wife

Stingray · « **Reply #10 on:** August 22, 2005, 01:55:39 pm »

No matter what the wives of the world would have you believe, you can never have too many tools. Never.

-S

Avery · « **Reply #11 on:** August 22, 2005, 02:38:35 pm »

I call it, "Looking for inspiration".

ChadTower · « **Reply #12 on:** August 22, 2005, 02:39:24 pm »

Quote from: Peale on August 21, 2005, 09:57:31 am

I think a better question would be "How many weirdos here DON'T browse the hardware store?"

I don't. I don't like to shop. I go in, buy what I need, and leave.

M3talhead · « **Reply #13 on:** August 22, 2005, 03:29:06 pm »

Damn I miss Lowes.....

ChadTower · « **Reply #14 on:** August 22, 2005, 03:33:29 pm »

You can have one of ours. We have Home Depot AND Lowe's within 10 minutes in any direction. It's sick. No one could need that many home improvement centers.

JackTucky · « **Reply #15 on:** August 22, 2005, 03:41:10 pm »

One of my neighbors and I used to do a monthly trip to home depot. Just pickup what we needed, then browse until closing.

we finished off by closing the bar too

Art

nostrebor · « **Reply #16 on:** August 22, 2005, 05:20:39 pm »

Quote from: ChadTower on August 22, 2005, 02:39:24 pm

Quote from: Peale on August 21, 2005, 09:57:31 am
I think a better question would be "How many weirdos here DON'T browse the hardware store?"

I don't. I don't like to shop. I go in, buy what I need, and leave.

I vote that Chad be banned from this thread.

Weirdo

ChadTower · « **Reply #17 on:** August 22, 2005, 08:29:04 pm »

I have better things to do than wander around in a store, really. I hate shopping. I do as much of it as I can online.

Tailgunner · « **Reply #18 on:** August 22, 2005, 09:41:40 pm »

Well I'm at Lowe's at least 3 days a week, so I'm pretty well versed with what they carry and where it is. Even still, unless I have to be somewhere I'll wander the tool section looking to see if there's something new I just can't do without. Last week it was a replacement for the blade retaining washer on my miter saw. Irwin has come out with one with a laser built into it to retrofit a older saws with a laser cutting guide.

ChadTower · « **Reply #19 on:** August 22, 2005, 10:26:07 pm »

It goes without saying, anything with a laser is worth having.

DrewKaree · « **Reply #20 on:** August 22, 2005, 10:42:10 pm »

Quote from: Tailgunner on August 22, 2005, 09:41:40 pm

Irwin has come out with one with a laser built into it to retrofit a older saws with a laser cutting guide.

Reason #6,587,472 why I need to make another trip.

JackTucky · « **Reply #21 on:** August 23, 2005, 12:19:36 am »

Replacement kerf, I think they are called?

Art

Tailgunner · « **Reply #22 on:** August 23, 2005, 03:06:38 am »

Quote from: JackTucky on August 23, 2005, 12:19:36 am

Replacement kerf, I think they are called?

Stingray · « **Reply #23 on:** August 23, 2005, 10:09:29 am »

Oooh... laser...

-S


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