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I'd replace the flashlight with a headlamp. A lot of the time you need both hands free and a positioned flashlight tends to get knocked.
I also keep my impact driver and bits case in the tool box, simply because I could never remember where I left it. I sometimes do have the search for a hammer to operate it.
I have too many toolboxes to say what is there that is not normal but I know in one large box I have an antique steel measuring wheel that measures in a tenth of a chain (6.6 feet). I think the Conquistadors dropped it out of their tool box.
That reminds me. I also have a 1910 nail puller in my carpentry bucket. Those things are very useful in some situations. Not sure why they quit making them
LOL, that's what we did when driving the Model A's and T's back in the days. The basic tool box then was wire and pliers.
I use it to this day. Back in the 70's I was driving a Fiat car, and the muffler pipe separated from the rest of the system. I took some wire and tied the pipe up, and tok the car to a repair shop. But I have used wire numerous times to hold things together
A good way to pull a cotter key that's a little stubborn: pass a short section of wire through the head of the key, fold the wire in half, and then with the plier pull the wire hard to slide the cotter key out of there. You can use a long piece of baling wire to unlock your car's door if you leave the key inside the car.
That reminds me. I also have a 1910 nail puller in my carpentry bucket. Those things are very useful in some situations. Not sure why they quit making them
Odd-ball things in my toolbox I've found useful over the years: a kabob skewer; a large, lethal-looking letter opener with a wood handle; a couple of shoe laces, and a drum stick (drummer's drum stick, not a chicken drum stick).
Boy did my pop rivet gun come in handy the other day. I had some tree branches that need to be cut down because they were on my roof. One of the branches came down on my aluminum gutters and busted up a corner. When I got up there on the ladder i was thinking of maybe calling a gutter dude. Then I got a vice grips and clamped it all back together nicely aligned and sunk a few rivits in it and viola like new
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