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Every day carry? How about home carry? I live in a 4500 sqft hundred year old house. All my tools are in the basement, but I have to work on shit on the other three floors, in the detached garage, and outside. I don't need a grab and go bag; I don't work on anything at my job, and no one is calling me to come over help them fix anything.

As much as I try to plan ahead I am always running back to the basement. Of course I am trying to put together a tool box or kit, so I'm here seeing if any anons in similar situations have any suggestions or advice. Get good? Suck it up?
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>>2994580
Install a dumbwaiter. Put tools in the dumbwaiter. Realize the reason they call it a dumb waiter is because of you. Much like how the jumpoline wasn't called the trampoline until your mom used one.
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Get ten sets of every tool and put them in every room in the house
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>>2994587
sorry you're poor.
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>>2994592
Says the guy that doesn't even have a dumbwaiter.
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>>2994580
duplicate tools in my upstairs work room, garage and shed.
in each of them I have a cordless drill, and cordless impact driver, and any other tools I would use there the most.
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>>2994580
i live in just a shitty apartment but unironically keep an old camera bag as a bike tool repair kit. a shitty t-handle driver holder, a 1/4" ratchet, the usual bits (three sizes of philips, two flats, the four most common hex, and a 6mm hex to 1/4" socket holder thingy), a small adjustible wrench, and some other bits and bobs like a roll of tape and random stout pieces of metal to use as shims/wedges/prybars. it does 99% of jobs around the house so instead of pawing through my mounds of real tools I just reach for that first.

>>2994591
this unironically works. a few times when i've started to lose individual driver bits or got annoyed at having only one of something, I just got another from the dollar store just so i dont have to break apart a kit i've made up so often. just dont do this with allen keys/hex drivers. those things accumulate so fast. and then one day in a pinch i bought a big bag of random ones at a thrift shop and now they just litter my apartment and somehow the one i find is always useless for whatever i wanted to fuck in half
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>>2994757
also this, i had a cordless drill but found it both a little weak and always annoying that it was running out of charge in the middle of whatever I was doing just as i hit Fey Mood levels of flow and now have to go insane waiting for it to recharge. got a cheap corded one i use with a shitty Princess Auto press to do serious drilling and have the cordless as just an electric screwdriver or for reaming

also dont sleep on actual cargo pants. nerds wear them because they're stupid military larpers but i have had times at work where i regret not wearing a belt because I'm carrying like nine wrenches and a pile of pseudorandom hardware in my pockets

5.11 is a meme but i have excactly one(1) pair of 5.11 pants and only because i found them at a thrift shop. i'd never pay MSRP for them but they're easily the best work pants i own and every pocket is expertly intuited by a retard to enable this particular retard



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