Gift Guide for the Home or Garage Toolbox

My favorite gifts are tools. Buy me a nice new router bit for Valentine's Day, for example, and you'll have bought my heart for the rest of the year. Buy me chocolates, and the effect fades much quicker.

By "tools," though, I mean those used in the kitchen as well as those in the garage or basement workshop. Good tools make our lives and jobs easier, and the best ones last a long time. My kitchen-loving kids always know they will get something good, and likely something they hadn't thought about, when they say they'd like a new cooking or food prep tool.

I've prepared a list of great gift ideas for the workshop that falls into that category. The kinds of things that don't often show up on wish lists, but that are nonetheless gratefully received and regularly used. Let me know if you find any useful ideas on the list.