Three thumbscrews, a locking washer, two brads, and a half of something that you’re not sure of but think it used to be a rivet?
Nope, all of those have their own little drawers. 
It is a wikipage, I don’t have those translated by Google! There is a link to the English page with the same content right there! And yes, it links to the English wikipage about washers. Which is longer than the German one and has more pictures.
Strange name, washer. Makes no sense. Needs more letters. I tell you: Unterlegscheibe is self-explanatory: Unter → below; leg → lay; scheibe → disk. Thus: Disk for putting under whatever when you need it. But I am ready to concede the English page is more interesting. And has more footnotes (27-2).
TIL that washers are a to me hitherto unknown culturally relevant item for a certain sub-population in the USA. They seem to be meticulous.
Obviously.
And also help keep the bolt/nut from slipping through the hole, which may otherwise enlarge with wear. And sometimes function as spacers.
Indeed.
That sounds like a coaster, to me.
You mean like a trivet? No, that would be an Untersetzer, not an Unterlegscheibe.
Or a whoopee cushion
This all sounds very familiar. My father cleaned up (probably threw out) all of his old collection when my parents moved, after I was out of the house; but I have started my own collection since we lived in this house – screws both wood and sheet metal, bolts and nuts, and yes washers, not in jars or tubs on the workbench (don’t worry, the bench is usually cluttered with other stuff) but in containers in drawers. I marvel how I accumulated all that stuff in just 20 years.
Save up a few hundred, and wire them together for a passable costume set of scale mail. Or, well, that’s what I did with some smaller-holed washers without the gold-colored coating. Useful for my Amtgard gear now many decades ago!
Oh. I saw a lady with a sweater on that had what looked liked tiny washers sewn allover. Very cute. They dangled nicely.
I wanted to touch and see if they were metal. But, I figured bad idea. I just stared at her back, in line, trying to figure it out. Til Ivy elbowed me to not stare.
A link where all questions are answered.
Yes, according to Prof. Google. There are pictures too.
My spouse has accumulated more Xmas cookie tins than even Mrs. Claus could ever find a use for, so my stripped nuts, dinged bolts and bent nails go in one of those until full, and then I run a couple rusty screws through the rim so they don’t fly apart in the scrap yard when I go every other month or so. Washers, though - they ALL get saved - too generically useful to discard, and they pack well.
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Jeezum crow, this post perfectly describes me…and my father.
What can I do with metal washers?
What can I do with metal washers?
What can I do with metal washers?
Put 'em un a scupper with a hose pipe on’em.
Ear-lay in the mornin
But seriously, if’n you do any handywork around the house, or someone who does, put them in a little bin and label it. The label bit is key, and be specific, don’t just say “washers” unless you’ve got a big ol’ bin of washers that you are willing to paw through to find the right size.
But based on your original question…either recycle or give to a toolsy friend.
Consider it done. You do realize, of course, that he IS a washer, even when not actually in the act of washing…
If you were the sort of person who had a workbench full of stored random hardware, you wouldn’t be asking the question. So in your case (as in mine now) storing it for some nebulous hoped-for later use makes no sense.
Most public recycling systems can’t take loose hardware, so dumping them in a recycling bin is probably mucking up their recycling stream.
They’re ~$1.25 for a 6-pack at Home depot. It will cost you more to save them than they are worth. There’s a trash can in your kitchen. Use it.
IMO YMMV.
If I don’t save it, I’ll surely need it in a bad way, soon.
It’s a mindset.
I keep those in a shelf box right next to the nailsets.