08/27/2026
IT'S a story as old as June 16, 1863, the day when the first ratcheting socket wrench was patented.
You have a great tool kit. Part of your set-up is a complete set of sockets and the ratchet handle. You love it. Every time you use a socket, you carefully and intentionally put it back in the correct slot for its size. You and your socket set are blissfully happy together, unaware of the freight train of disaster bearing down on you.
It starts, innocently enough, with your neighbor, Greg, who wants to borrow your 3/4" socket because he "can't find his." The truth is, his brother-in-law borrowed his 3/4" socket two years ago and never brought it back. He might not even have *actually* asked to borrow it, but he knew "Greg wouldn't mind."
Well, Greg, too, forgets to return your socket. It now lives in HIS toolbox.
And that's just the thin end of the wedge. Before you know it, your perfect socket collection looks like a six-year old's mouth when they start losing their baby teeth. Your once harmonious socket set now is in deep emotional pain, as are you.
But there is a way out, without going to a big-box hardware store and buying a new set.
Come to The ReStore and go through our bin of sockets. Sockets are only fifty cents each. (Tex tells us that's "four bits in cowboy talk." Has something to do with Spanish silver Reals apparently.)
Restore peace tranquility and completeness to your ravaged socket set. Do it now, before Greg borrows another socket.
