On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 08:30:36 -0800 (PST), Bev wrote: >The button box has a masculine equivalent - the nuts-and-bolts jars that >guys seem to have in their workshops (in my case there are many on shelves >throughout the house. Want some?) - so maybe if your daughter doesn't find >enough button boxes, she could tap into the metal bits resource.
Nuts and bolts jars are far too useful to be exclusively masculine. Mine are mainly in tins rather than jars sorted by type of item - a tin for nails, one for screws, one for nuts and bolts, one for washers etc. Then there are items sorted by usage. A plastic film canister is just the right size to take a small selection of the washers, screws, allen nuts etc used on my bike and lives at the bottom of my pannier, with a small multi-tool screwdriver/allen key/spanner. This has proved its worth on many occasions, enabling me to do emergency repairs to get home. Indeed I used the screwdriver bit today, to turn a broken off key in a cheap bike lock so that I could unlock my bike and bring my shopping home without having to leave the bike locked up at the supermarket. I've got a button jar too, but its contents get used a lot less often than the nails, screws etc. -- We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. - Oscar Wilde Steph Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tatting, lace & stitching page <http://www.sandbenders.demon.co.uk/index.htm> Scanned by WinProxy http://www.Ositis.com/ To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
