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Ugh, I have a watch vise for exactly this reason (replacing batteries on my snapback watch). It was something like $16 on Amazon, and will pay for itself withi
by CydeWeys 7y ago
Ugh, I have a watch vise for exactly this reason (replacing batteries on my snapback watch). It was something like $16 on Amazon, and will pay for itself within five years from me not having to pay much inflated prices to have a jeweler replace my watch's battery (and crucially, will save me a lot of time going to and from the reasonably priced watch repair places in Chinatown).
- dTal 7y agoWhen you say it will pay for itself, are you including the soft cost of storage? It may seem negligible, but if you applied that logic to every item you use only once per year, the cost becomes apparent. It's hard to measure, but it's real.
- CydeWeys 7y agoThe amount of stuff I have has never led me to rent a larger apartment than I otherwise would've, so it seems like the marginal cost of more stuff is zero for me, at least for now? It's not like I'm renting additional storage space or anything (which is an option in the basement of my apartment building, but that certainly wouldn't be worth it). All the extra tools, parts, and such that I have fit into two normal sized moving boxes, which can easily be stuffed under the bed or take up a shelf in a closet. I have more of a problem with books than I do with tools and parts.