# Do you throw away the allen wrench from DIY furniture?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 22, 2010, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-throw-away-the-allen-wrench-from-diy-furniture/554711 "2010-09-22T23:42:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-throw-away-the-allen-wrench-from-diy-furniture/554711/21 "2010-09-23T21:34:07Z")

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I don’t. But really, I have no reason to keep them. I guess I have a \*little \*of my dad in me - a man who kept every bolt and nut and gizmo that ever came his way. He would use them too. He never bought a part if he could mickey-mouse something from other parts.

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**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-throw-away-the-allen-wrench-from-diy-furniture/554711/22 "2010-09-23T21:52:20Z")

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> [@davidm](#):
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> Even if you do save it, years later when you go to disassemble that piece of furniture you probably won’t be able to find it.
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> Maybe I should post a link to my thread about the incident that started with a fruitless search for an allen wrench and ended with an FBI raid.

Yes, please!

> [@zoid](#):
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> I tape them to the underside.

_(and more on the same theme)_  
OMG. Y’all are brilliant. I’m so stealing that.

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**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-throw-away-the-allen-wrench-from-diy-furniture/554711/23 "2010-09-23T23:26:19Z")

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Last time I was preparing to move, I found a pile of like, six of those little IKEA allen wrenches and threw them all out.

Then, a few days later, I tried to get my bed out of my room…

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