re: Basic tools every household should have?

A dial gauge and a set of feelers, to measure the health of your turbocharger.

Jig saw, miter saw, table saw, palm sander, heavy duty drill

Level, square, measuring tape, stud finder

Needle nose plies, light and heavy wire cutting dikes, wire strippers

Channel locks, vise grips of different sizes, wire pliers

Pipe cutter, hacksaw

Just to name a few you didnt.

M12 fuel Has my heart

I get giddy when they drop a new tool that I don't need but still run to Home Depot the next sell and grab it.

The new 6.0 batteries are goat

My next one is the 3" cut off compact saw

Damn don’t have one of those.
Gonna have to get one of those and the tool to open the meter box.

Potato Pump


Aka

Garden Sprayer

As a life long woodworker and general tool nut, I am not the one to ask because I see 30 systainers full of Festool as just a start and also thing every home shop needs a Northfield jointer...

That said the one tool I think every toolbox should have in it that most people don't know about is a Knipex pliers wrench. They are similar to adjustable pliers (Channel locks) but they have smooth jaws the stay parallel as they open and close. In most cases, they d a better job with no damage compared to typically adjustable pliers.

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Spent all day today cleaning out the garage, putting tools away, etc.

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That's on my short to-do list. Gonna wait till this heat goes away though, it's too damn hot right now.

Don't forget allen wrenches (standard and metric)
Circuit tester (to test whether or not a cable is hot even though you flipped the breaker)

Look here. I used to sell tools. You can’t ever have enough. Let me badger you for a month and you will be Tim Taylor in no time.