Sorting through my Father-In-Law's tools

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And those of you with obsessive compulsive disorder will appreciate this endeavor: Wayne had an actual bucket of drill bits of every conceivable size. I spent two days at the kitchen island cataloging them with a magnifying glass initially, and then with a micrometer. I labeled plastic bags with the fractional size if I could read it, then using the micrometer and putting them into piles and into the bags.

Last night I left to go to the cruise night around 3:00 PM. I came back afterward to the kitchen and found that my wife (also a victim of OCD) had channeled her inner fairytale "Shoemaker and the Elves" story and had made up a full set of envelopes, labeled each one with a printer, laminated them, and then found a card catalog box to collate them into size order from smallest to .075 (5/64") to .500 (1/2") sizes. There were bizarre sizes in between the traditional 32nds and 64ths that ended up 128ths of an inch, drill bits. Amazing!

I've been calling some of my friends and asking them to check their drill sets and tell me what's missing so I can gift them some of my avalanche of drill bits to complete their sets.

BTW, I weighed the Dewey Decimal System Drill Bit box and it weight 5-1/2 pounds!