Eleven years ago, in Throwing away perfectly good hand tools, I opined about my propensity for tossing out gardening hand tools with the weeds/cuttings that I threw into my huge compost pile - and wrote, 'I have wasted "vast amounts" of money on replacing hand tools.'
Earlier this year I posted Spring Photos 2022 in which I mentioned, 'I used to have a huge compost pile for leaves and cuttings. Over the years I found that I had tossed many hand, gardening tools out with the green stuff that I was adding to the pile. I rarely found those tools. In the past couple of years, I've discontinued that pile and taken out the trees near it. Every few months another hand tool emerges. I found this pair of inexpensive pruners three weeks ago. I didn't try to revive the poor things.' That posting included a photo of the rusted-out pruners.
A few days ago, my carelessness struck, again. I threw out my last good weed digger with the weeds (as shown in a photo in the first-mentioned posting, above) - into the trash cart. The weeds included invasive plants that I didn't wish to chance having proliferate in our woods where non-invasive plant materials may safely be composted. Aargh!
Going to the website of my favorite hardware store, Hupp True Value Hardware, I was shunted to the generic True Value website which showed the newest generation of weed digging tool, which they labeled a weeder, from Fiskar for $18. I very nearly ordered a couple of them, but I checked back into the Hupp site to see if I could pick that particular weeder up at their store. Yes, they had one in stock - for $9. Eh? OK. Hunky Husband and I ran up to Hupp. As it turned out, they had two Fiskar weeders on hand - which I promptly bought. At the checkout counter I saw why the website had listed only one weeder: the two were actually different models.
From the difference in price, one being $9, the other being $10, and the similarity of the tools, I assume that the cheaper one is "last year's model". Let's see how long I can hang onto them!
That was well worth the trip, getting two basically for the price of one. Hope you manage to keep track of both of them for a year or two :)
Posted by: bogie | July 31, 2022 at 06:28 AM
Bogie--Thanks for the wishes. Amazingly enough, I kept that last one (having retrieved it several times) for at least 11 years - which I would have thought was only 5 or 6 years had I not done the research for this posting. I had bought it and its twin at Hupp's is why I tried Hupp's this time.
Posted by: Cop Car | July 31, 2022 at 07:14 AM
Yes, I suspect many tools have gone that way. Although Husband breaks more than he loses.
Posted by: Liz Hinds | August 04, 2022 at 06:30 AM