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I regularly lose my secateurs... Any tips?

roisin897roisin897 Posts: 32
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... and sometimes find them six months later in the compost heap :o
any tips? (other than a brain/memory transplant.
I don't get on with a tool belt.
I have a tool bag, which I love. But too often I am just doing a few bits for half an hour, grab my trowel, secateurs and a bucket. Then at the end of the session, I have to spend an hour wandering round the garden trying to spot where I have put them down.
Age doesn't make you forgetful. Having way too many stupid things to remember makes you forgetful.
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  • steephillsteephill Posts: 2,637
    Use a colourful wrist strap on them, something bright and non natural looking.
  • roisin897roisin897 Posts: 32
    Thanks: that's a good idea
    Age doesn't make you forgetful. Having way too many stupid things to remember makes you forgetful.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 9,042
    I use the Felco belt sheath and find it really good. Take the lock off the secatures and you have to put it back in the sheath to hold it closed. After a while it becomes habit.
    Tradition is just peer pressure from dead people
  • BigladBiglad Posts: 2,842
    I just keeping breaking mine!  :o
    East Lancs
  • strelitzia32strelitzia32 Posts: 767
    https://www.thetileapp.com/en-gb/

    There are many variants and manufacturers of these kind of things, I'm sure you could get one for £10 on Amazon. I guess it depends how posh your secateurs are!
  • B3B3 Posts: 24,451
    Biglad said:
    I just keeping breaking mine!  :o
    How on earth do you manage that?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • roisin897roisin897 Posts: 32
    Thanks: I hadn't thought of a Tile, my son uses one for his keys - that might work well. (I always buy fairly cheap ones, because I know I completely lose at least one pair every year. Maybe if I bought very very expensive ones, I would take better care of them!)

    Age doesn't make you forgetful. Having way too many stupid things to remember makes you forgetful.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 50,236
    B3 said:
    Biglad said:
    I just keeping breaking mine!  :o
    How on earth do you manage that?
    The clue's in his name @B3....... ;)

    I have two pairs -one old, one newer, and snips and scissors. I use snips more than secateurs [deadheading] but a bright piece of ribbon or similar is the way to go, as already suggested by @steephill

    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • BigladBiglad Posts: 2,842
    @B3 Not 100% sure - buying cheap might be my problem but I've gone through two so far this year and snapped the locking mechanism on the 3rd pair last week! I've started using more suitable equipment for pruning thicker stems as I've probably given secateurs more credit than they deserve in terms of what they can do over a period of time.
    East Lancs
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 7,739
    A few years ago there was a fad for multicoloured handles on garden hand tools such as trowels, secateurs etc.  The reality was that multicoloured became camouflaged if you put them down in the border. 
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