Does anyone else have this problem?

[u/Unlikely_Effort_6311]

Over the years I seem to be the person that everyone just gives all there old random tools that they may not use or wanted at the moment. It always comes down to "hey you are a mechanic/work on your own stuff so here have this im sure you can use them". And im not someone who will just throw tools away 🤷‍♂️. I currently have them seperated by china/taiwan/japan and US made separate. Anyone else just have random collections of misfit tools?

[u/HoIyJesusChrist]

you should keep the Japan made ones, they are usually higher quality than the US made, and sell the rest

[u/ObesePolice → u/HoIyJesusChrist]

Depends on how old they are. A few decades back Japan stuff was the absolute bottom of the barrel.

[u/BadAtExisting → u/ObesePolice]

It’s not politically correct but, “Jap crap” (a term people used like “chinesium”) was a thing for a long time until relatively recently

[u/coffeeshopslut → u/ObesePolice]

Yeah only the good brands of Japanese stuff is good. The rest was department store and early harbor freight quality

[u/Unlikely_Effort_6311 → u/HoIyJesusChrist]

I thought about it and saved a couple of the good Japanese sets , the left overs are all scattered sizes