re: What is your favorite store?

Eh, I make a living with tools and do so with with lots of harbor freight products. They've stepped their game up in the last 5 years and are continuing to change the game across the landscape of consumer tooling products.

If tooling has a large part on profit margin, then what you buy and when you buy it (e.g., on a moment's notice for a particular job and a particular task and thereafter it won't be needed except on a semi-regular basis, let alone for casual homeowner use), then you'll think twice about getting the $300 Milwaukee portable bandsaw when you can take half that much and walk out of Harbor Freight with a tool that'll do the same thing- and that includes the 3 year warranty and the coupon they regularly offer that makes the saw $100.

Oh, and the saw has 838 reviews at 4.7 stars; which is another contributing factor to why and how HF has continually improved their product line and why buying one of their tools to make it something it is not is the fault of the buyer and only the buyer. (And that goes for any brand, but HF is a bit different in that respect because finding detailed, extensive reviews can be found right there on the product's webpage. As a matter of fact, the reviews are a showcase of the product's webpage- almost as much as the picture.)

And even then, regarding regular use, they make plenty of tools that stand up to the test of commercial use, including, for instance, the portable bandsaw. I know, because I own lots of them.

But hey, you keep buying that $22 dead blow hammer from Home Depot (the middle man) and I'll keep buying my $9 one at Horrible Freight.

And my favorite store has nothing to do with work, so I'd have to say I agree with the OP'er that I love finding a cubby hole in the back of a bookstore and spending an entire morning getting lost in the pages of a myriad of subjects that interest me.

I love a good stroll through a Cabela's or REI, too, but buying tools? Nah, frick that.

Churchill’s. Whiskey and cigars.

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Bass Pro Shops

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The store in Pearland is one of the better ones that I have been to and don't get me started on the one in Katy. Just wish they had kept the restaurants in them.

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Online- Amazon

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I hate Amazon..

People get upset when I tell them my $400 HF toolbox is just as good quality wise as their $2000 snap-on. But it's true.

My favorite store is probably whole foods.

You can just steal I stead of paying 20k. Apparently, they don't arrest thieves.

REI. If there's one in a city I'm visiting, then I'm stopping in.

There's a really neat camping and surplus store in our little town square area that I pop into pretty frequently to check out the offroading and camping equipment and gear. Fun place to browse.

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When was the last time you read a fricking book?

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I don't read I just look at the pictures.

Frankie and Johnnie's Furniture

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