The right tool makes all the difference
By Fleur
@Fleura (34927)
United Kingdom
October 4, 2023 3:26am CST
Having the right tool for a job makes a world of difference. Whether it’s in the garage, the garden, the kitchen or wherever, if you’ve ever tried to undo a nut without the right size spanner (wrench), pour preserves into bottles without a funnel, prepare a seed bed without a rake… any job is transformed from frustrating cursing to a simple movement with the right tool.
Today my day has been made joyful and easy by the purchase of a large stapler (from Ebay of course). It cost less than £5, most of that for postage. It’s a chunky thing, the sort you probably remember seeing in the school office. Apparently it can staple up to 110 pages if required (it has a handy little plate on it that shows you what it can do with the different sizes of staples you can buy for it).
Today though I’m using it for my current craft project, which I expect I will tell you about in due course. I would love to show you but I assume the picture issue still isn’t sorted – at least I can’t see any.
What’s your favourite tool today?
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@sharonelton (30756)
• Lichfield, England
4 Oct 23
That's absolutely right. In art, you have to have the right brushes, paper and things. I'm watching Bob Ross The Joy of Painting at the moment, and he uses these painting knives with the blade on the side that he uses for straight lines in trees and for doing shadows and highlights on mountains. I have some metal ones in my saved for laters on Amazon, but I managed to find a plastic one in a pack with some others in the sale in the Works for 50p! It'll serve it's purpose until I can get the metal ones! 
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@sharonelton (30756)
• Lichfield, England
4 Oct 23
@Fleura That's great. The Autumn/Winter art class is going on at the moment, but seeing as I'm not going this time, I'm trying to do something similar at home. (We were given the prospectus for the Autumn/Winter classes when we were there in the summer, so I know what they sre supposed to be doing.) First I did a drawing of my hand in pencil, which came out better than I was expecting because I'm no good at hands, next was a deserted mansion in biro, but I used a fine liner, next was a spooky or autumnal scene in fine liner, and I did a pumpkin and other vegetables by an overturned basket. Last week I did figs in oil pastels and this week it's a Partridge in a Pear tree in oil pastels, except I couldn't get a picture of a Partridge in a Pear tree off the copyright free pictures site, so I got a picture of a Partridge on a fence in front of a tree which may or may not be a Pear tree to copy from!
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@Fleura (34927)
• United Kingdom
4 Oct 23
@sharonelton Surely you could find a Christmas card with a partridge in a pear tree!
You are doing well keeping up with the work.
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@BarBaraPrz (51811)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
4 Oct 23
I've worked in the print business and used a foot-powered stapler for booklets. It was an antique cast-iron thing and one time I managed to get my thumb in the way when I trounced on the foot pedal. I ran up and down the shop a few times, saying the F word before thinking to run my thumb under the cold water... 
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@BarBaraPrz (51811)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
4 Oct 23
@Fleura I did that too but my mother thought there might be some of the needle stuck in my thumb and had my father take us to the hospital to have it xrayed. I miss my treadle machine...
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@changjiangzhibin89 (17239)
• China
4 Oct 23
Nowadays you can buy whatever you want online.I agree with you,the right tool makes you achieve twice the result with half the effort.
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@changjiangzhibin89 (17239)
• China
5 Oct 23
@Fleura You definitely have a good eye for a bargain ! I haven't visited Ebay.I frequently buy items on Taobao.
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@LindaOHio (222222)
• United States
4 Oct 23
I have a nice heavy-duty stapler that I use all the time. Have a good day.
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@LadyDuck (502148)
• Italy
4 Oct 23
So true, without the right tool we can do nothing. I have two staplers, one is a small thing to stable only a few pages together, the bigger one up to 50.
My favorite tool today my rake, the leaves are falling and I rake every day to keep the lawn clean.
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