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Vent: my scrap bucket hit 300 pounds and I felt weirdly proud about it
So I finally weighed my scrap bucket last Saturday before hauling it to the yard, and it came out to 302 pounds. Sounds dumb to be proud of a pile of cutoff ends, but I've been at this about two years now and that bucket is basically a receipt for every project I've messed up. There's a bent chunk in there from my first set of tongs that I totally ruined on the horn, plus about 40 pounds of bottle openers that snapped at the twist. My wife keeps saying to just dump it already, but I like seeing how much steel has moved through my little shed in Boise. The yard gave me $36 for the whole thing, which barely covers a couple of new files, but that's not really the point. It's more like proof I'm actually making stuff instead of just reading about it. Anybody else keep a scrap pile way longer than they should, or am I the only sentimental one here?
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leor371d ago
Small correction: 302 pounds is not a receipt for every project you messed up, it's a receipt for all the steel you cut and shaped. The bent tongs chunk and those snapped bottle openers are the misses, sure, but most of that bucket is just normal cutoffs and stub ends from stuff that worked. My pile is the same way, maybe 20 pounds of real fails and 200 pounds of "I'll use that someday" pieces. So be proud of the full bucket, just give the credit to the work and not the screwups.
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