| One of my readers shared his story with me that I | | | | had in his house were expensive pens and he wasn't |
| believe most of my article readers would appreciate. | | | | about to use one of them. |
| It was about the problems they had while framing a | | | | This was his first trip down to the lumber yard, but it |
| few rooms in their basement. After you're done | | | | wasn't going to be his last. He never even thought |
| reading the article, you should have a better idea | | | | about creating a list for other items that he might |
| about creating lists and purchasing tools. | | | | need. Luckily for him the lumber yard was only about |
| It was a brand-new home and John was going to | | | | 15 minutes from his home, without any traffic that is. |
| refinish the basement on his own. He never worked | | | | He purchased his pencils and came back to start on |
| in construction and no one that he ever knew | | | | the project, only to realize that he had purchased a |
| growing up in Boston, had never built anything. John | | | | chalk box but didn't realize that it didn't have any |
| was the product of an extremely wealthy family, | | | | chalk in it. This was now the second trip to the |
| who had at least one person who could fix anything, | | | | lumber yard in less than two hours, without a list. |
| just one phone call away. | | | | John told me that it took him all most 10 eight hour |
| John knew he could do it, so he went online and | | | | days to frame 15 walls in his basement. Not knowing |
| ordered about $3000 worth of tools. Tools that he | | | | anything about construction or what tools he would |
| believed, he would need to refinish his basement on | | | | need, he made plenty of trips down to the local |
| his own. Air compressors, nail guns, saws, screw | | | | lumber yard. |
| guns, table saw, nail bags, hammers, tape measures | | | | John had a lot of fun finishing his basement, but |
| and the list goes on and on. | | | | couldn't believe how many things it actually took to |
| He put all the tools in his basement, ordered some | | | | finish it. His original tool purchase had doubled, the |
| building materials and went to work. He started to | | | | only problem was that his first load of tools came in |
| mark out the positions of the walls and realize that | | | | one shipment and all the rest came one piece at a |
| he didn't have a pencil or any type of marker. All he | | | | time. |