TIL my neighbor spends more time planning his tool pegboard than actually building things

I was over at his garage last weekend and he spent a full 45 minutes rearranging hooks for a hammer drill he uses maybe once a year. Has anyone else realized they're guilty of organizing instead of doing?

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tylermurray28d ago

Nah but the hammer drill thing is kinda funny. That said you're missing the point a little. Organizing IS part of building things. You can't work efficiently if you're digging through a pile of crap every time you need a socket. Yeah 45 minutes is excessive but if he's got a system that actually works for him then who cares. The real problem is people who organize endlessly and never touch their tools. If he's actually using that hammer drill once a year and it takes him 2 minutes to grab it instead of 20 then the pegboard time paid for itself.

the_sam27d ago

But doesn't that assume the time you save is actually worth more than the time you spent organizing? I mean, if you're spending 45 minutes setting up a pegboard for one tool you use once a year, that's a pretty bad trade-off in my book. Maybe it's just me, but I'd rather just spend the extra minute digging through the pile and put that 45 minutes into an actual project instead.