Why does nobody talk about labeling your own offcuts before they hit the pile

Grant Green · 2026-09-30T07:45:03.43536+00:00

I spent a whole Saturday digging through a pile of maple shorts from an old job, trying to find two matching pieces wide enough for a small drawer box, and I never found them. Turns out I had cut what I needed six months back and buried it. Now every offcut that's wider than 3 inches gets a strip of blue tape with the species and the width in marker, and I sort them into milk crates by size instead of dumping them all in one bin. Did a set of kitchen doors off leftover stock two weekends ago and never touched a full board. How do you all keep track of shorts, bins by size or by species?

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