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In a county where Palm Pilots are routinely holstered next to hammers, and farriers rub elbows with barristers, it is easy to take for granted the basic tools needed to successfully navigate through a weekend “honey do” list.
After a week of battling commuter gridlock and cell phone drop-outs, you want to settle into a leisurely weekend enjoying the latest DVD release or downloading an MP3 music file for your high-tech teen.
All those are leisure tools that you probably have.
But what about the “hero” tools — the tools that fix the leaky toilet, the sticky door, the loose table leg, or the clogged sink disposer? The tools that tidy loose leaves, trim gangly branches and whack wayward weeds?
If you still rely on the butter knife for driving screws and the wing-tipped oxford to pound nails, then your tool box is probably a disorderly assembly of twisted spoons, rusty serrated steak knives, crimped coat hangers, and a lug wrench from the trunk of your first car.
But for just a few dollars you can invest in the basic tools that will tighten all the loose nuts in your household.
I spoke with a couple of experts about this. Glen Rankin of Rankin’s True Value
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