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261702 george@g... 2017‑02‑19 From where do all those old tools come ?
Hello Galootdom -

While building an inventory file for the purchases I've made
for the last twenty years, I became curious about their
distribution: Is there any one "mother lode" from which
old tools come back from oblivion ?

Here's an answer of sorts:
https://www.easymapmaker.com/map/b6a5f576441553a99c65cebc1cb753ca

This is a Google application into which one can paste a list of
ZIP codes from a database or spreadsheet. Mine are in text
format so as to preserve the leading zeros, and I'm using
LibreOffice Calc to generate my spreadsheets. So far I've only
progressed through 1998 and 1999.

The distribution could not have been any more uniform, as it
seems to follow the population density of the USA with the
possible exception of the Confederate states, from which there
have been rather few purchases on my part.

In spite of the map's title, I have included all purchases,
including those from Galoot FS lists, but not flea markets
and auctions.

Recent Bios FAQ