Comments on: #742 The smell of an old hardware store

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1000 Awesome Things.......... | infoplanetarium.com — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 10:03:56 +0000

[...] #742 The smell of an old hardware store [...]

By: emily

emily — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:11:55 +0000

hardware stores… right up there with wet paint and wet leaves. and emma: were the 2011 minority!!!! be proud!!

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 11:54:57 +0000

I love the smell of gasoline and soccer cleats they smell so refreshing

By: Emma DeCaro

Emma DeCaro — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 13:06:50 +0000

Hardware stores smell so refreshing! Just wondering, does anyone still use this app? I haven’t seen comments written since 2009 :/

By: Yaaa

Yaaa — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 08:03:08 +0000

I love the tire section, so true. Sidenote: an old man let me go ahead of him in line at the grocery store today. I had two things and was on my fifteen minute break. AWESOME!

By: wendywithaurora

wendywithaurora — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 17:16:43 +0000

By: Zenia Achekian

Zenia Achekian — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 11:56:45 +0000

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By: wendywithaurora

wendywithaurora — Mon, 23 May 2011 05:02:30 +0000

Two treasure troves I know of,
Google: Jack’s New and Used, Burnaby B.C.
Fisher’s Hardware in Vernon, B.C., Canada

By: Terhi

Terhi — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 10:09:44 +0000

Somehow this reminded me of my granddad.
He had this drawer full of old screws and bolts and tiny pieces of metal that looked like they were an important part of something but no one knew where they belonged. So he always put the lost screws in the same drawer, in case some day you found out where they belonged. We used to play with these bolts as kids. Maybe it was the boredomness of visiting grandparents or maybe the same old toys got boring, but me and my brother used to sort these in little piles, we tried to fit them together and spend hours just looking at them and thinking all the possible uses for the tinyest screws.

I still remember what they smelled like: old patinated metal, dust, rust, memories,
AWESOME.

By: Arlene

Arlene — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 02:08:40 +0000

I like the old men in the old hardware stores. They don’t just help you find the right tool they will often do the job right there for you if it’s portable. Classic, good-old-fashioned service. Ours has a ride-on horse for 10 cents that still works. My six-year-old daughter rides it same as I did, 34 years ago. You can buy salt and pepper shakers, fishing rods, bikes and bunkbeds all in one spot.