[VFB] Hot Dogs and Hooks

[Garry V. Wiles]

Listers,

OK, this is ON TOPIC and goes along with the subject lines.  As I 
stated in my reply to Jimmy and his snowfall, I bought materials and 
hooks on Thursday with intentions of tieing a bunch during my up and 
coming hernia operation and the down time afterwards.  Today started 
some warm up and I've tied 2 dozen size 10 Red Tag variants out of a 
box of 25 hooks.  (see my tie in to hot dogs - dogs in packs of 10 
and buns in packs of 8).  I don't normally sit down and tie a box of 
the same or similar patterns that often and I don't really notice the 
extra hook.  But TODAY, I now have 4 sets of 1/2 doz each of the 
variants, leaving me the 1 hook left over.  My question is for the 
bulk or professional tiers -- what do you end up doing w/the extra 
hook?  Normally, if I were tieing for someone, I'd give them an extra 
fly or keep that one for myself as a pattern; but the ones for today 
were pretty much for my and my kids' use.  Now I have 1 pattern with 
an uneven amount.  This lack of equality gnaws at my personal 
obsessive compulsive disorder and is hard to tolerate - next time I 
might try the 5 patterns of 5, since that goes evenly into boxes of 
25 and/or 50.  HOWEVER, it goes against the 3,6,12 quantities of 
tieing a pattern.

HELP!!!


Garry