A Treasure Trove of Useful Things

Have you noticed how much really useful stuff comes included with your purchases? Things like extra hardware, extra mounting pieces, clips, holddowns, and padding, single-use tools,etc. In fact, my idea of a good day is when I unpack something and have things left over.

Step 1 A Little Something Extra

The idea for this Instructable came as the result of my purchasing and assembling a steel storage rack for my garage. The manufacturer, bless him, thoughtfully included a bunch of extra hardware, including rubber feet in the event I didn't use castor wheels, end caps, and circular plastic wedges for holding the rack together. Lots of potentially valuable parts here.

Comments

[caappold]

The silica gel packets are great to drop into a drawer that is holding steel tools. They help prevent rust.

[embochner]

i do the same thing i have collections of random parts pieces and components that are seemingly garbage but i am hopeful that one day they will be useful- and occasionally they are. and i store them in plastic containers from various products that otherwise would have ended up in the trash

[snideprime]

Kindred spirits abound. That's why we love Instructables!

[l8nite]

Im up there with rimar. There's a show on cable called hacking with hackett, he calls this kind of free and found stuff obtainium, as much as I like that word I changed it to possibilium because it fits my usage more. Possibilium was one of the most popular words during this years Haunt build and has slid into the vocabulary of many of our builders " go to the possibilium piles and find something that will make this work" .. really neat "ible"

[RangerJ]

I love both words and plan on sprinkling them into my conversations. Thanks!

[rimar2000]

You and me are two kindred spirits. But I think I'm worse! ;)

[RangerJ]

I don't know - you'd have to be really bad to be more of a pack rat than I am!