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What to get the hardware guy who has everything? Something to put it in. That's right storage bins are hot items in the hardware store now. Roughtote is the name in plastic storage bins. These guys make storage bins in all sizes and durability. And they have lids!

The ten-gallon container is versatile. You can store everything from hunting and fishing supplies to odds and ends from the workbench.

Best of all they are stackable. That way you can be tidy without necessarily being neat.

The ten-gallon model retails for $5.89 and comes in a variety of colors, if you are into that. The basic battleship gray works for me.

- Vince Staten mailto:guyguide@vincestaten.com

Uni-Brow

The Wally Moon look is out. Moon, a power-hitting outfielder for the Dodgers of the early sixties, was as famous for his uni-brow as he was for his Moon Shots into the friendly left field stands.

That look is now out - not that it was ever in.

So grab your girlfriend's tweezers and go at it, plucking all those stray hairs that reproduce above the bridge of your nose.

If you're worried about the pain - yes it hurts, but so did that tattoo - then rub some ice over the area first to numb it. Then pluck away. Pluck, pluck, pluck, pluck.

- Vince Staten

Mail Order

Long for the good old days, when men were men and fuses never blew? Check out Lehman's online catalog.

These guys have been serving the Amish community of Ohio since 1955 so if you want anything non-electric, these guys have it, from oil lamps to wood stoves.

But you don't have to be a back-to-nature type to enjoy their products. They also have pine tar soap, old-fashioned pant stretchers (for clothesline drying), even Amish popcorn, with those big yellow kernels. Yum.

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- Vince Staten mailto:guyguide@vincestaten.com

Glasses

If you are shopping for new eyeglasses, don't spend so much time worrying about color. Worry about shape.

Match the shape of the glasses to the shape of your face.

Round face? Then you don't want round glasses. Or square ones either. They should be straight across the top and bottom and rounded on the sides.

Square jaw? You need a rounder pair of glasses.

Long face? Go for something wide.

Triangular face? You want frames with a curved bottom and make sure they aren't wider than your temples.

-- Anonymous, February 20, 2002

Answers

I'm kinda partial to a curved bottom, myself....

-- Anonymous, February 20, 2002

After buying all sorts of organizing stuff, I have come to the conclusion that people who are neat and tidy will be so without the help of caddies and storage bins. People like me will merely fill up the new conveniences and then stuff will gradually collect and overflow everywhere.

And I confirm the rumor that my many herbs and spices are alphabetized in over the door racks on the back of the kitchen door. It's a lazy thing.

Also a lazy thing: when we drank, um, moderately and cooked with liqueurs a lot, all the booze was alphabetized too. 'Course, after a few drinks you couldn't remember if S for scotch came before D for Drambuie or not so it all got kerfuffled anyway.

-- Anonymous, February 20, 2002

Oooooo, kerfuffled! I like that one!

-- Anonymous, February 21, 2002

I am into buying those 20 gallons totes..and yes, I just throw in the junk..only it is GOOD junk..craft supplies, and things like CLothes I;ll never wear again, but can not part with, things from friends that I just can't throw away...you know..just THINGS!!!!

-- Anonymous, February 21, 2002