I also liked the part where melannen explained about having bits of scrap iron lying around the yard: "Look, people keep scrap metal piles in the back yard because having scrap metal around is useful, not because they're inherently untidy."
That was exactly my philosophy on the boat. You had a really big locker and several smaller lockers, and you saved screws and you always had extra 10 mil spanners (for some reason, while I had a complete socket set and several random spanners, it's always the 10 mil one that's most use. To begin with, it's the size of the standard diesel engine bleed screw) and every time you had a crisis you bought things that would be useful if you ever had that sort of crisis again.
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That was exactly my philosophy on the boat. You had a really big locker and several smaller lockers, and you saved screws and you always had extra 10 mil spanners (for some reason, while I had a complete socket set and several random spanners, it's always the 10 mil one that's most use. To begin with, it's the size of the standard diesel engine bleed screw) and every time you had a crisis you bought things that would be useful if you ever had that sort of crisis again.