My Grandpa Elmer Rife...another frugal German...used used pie tins for reflectors for lights in his shop. His long bolts were in used Prince Albert cigar boxes. (He didn't buy the cigar boxes) The owner of an old country store saved them for him. He used my grandmas old mason jars for nuts and bolts. He screwed the lids with rusty scavenged screws to shelving he made from the old corn crib. Then he screwed the jars into the lids at eye level so he could see what bolt and washers he had in the jars. He was still using a Gleaner 6 row when he retired from farming at 91 years of age. When he had gravel added to the shed he dumped it in one corner and made me wheel barrel each load until the floor was even and level. I used to have to sit in a chair and shoot sparrows that **** on his 73 Buick Electra with used Bbs in a one **** daisy BB gun he got at a farm sale for a quarter until I filled up a five gallon bucket. He trained Prince his German Shepard farm dog to grab ground squirrels that were tearing up his grass when they came out of their hole. He was at the other end flushing the hole with rainwater he caught in an old, elevated fuel drum.