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Those rubber/vinyl mats are nice for killing off grass. Don’t have to weigh them down around the edges to keep them from blowing away. I’ve got an old rubber truck bed mat and wish I had 20 more.

Johnny’s and Farmer’s Friend sell 5 mil polyethylene sillage tarps that market gardener’s use, 24’ x 100’ for $250, black on one side and white on the other.

Tractor Supply has 3’ x 50’ of 4 mil solid black poly for $20 which is more my size and price range. Gonna pick up a couple next week.

I’ve got an old rubber truck bed mat and wish I had 20 more.

Rubber mats are fantastic. Stall mats are my favorite, but those things are so heavy that I don't care much for handling them these days. That and they're crazy expensive now if you buy them new. I need to pick up a few more to put down around the new raised beds where they won't need to be moved until the beds rot out and have to be replaced.

I'm really liking the hallway runner matting that I put down along the asparagus bed row. It was stupid expensive (Amazon - $250 for 3'x50') but it's light enough to pick up between growing seasons, heavy enough that it should last for years, and it's not woven so nothing will grow through it.

Went down a tool bag rabbit hole this morning. HomeDepot lists 462 and Lowes lists 250 of them. I bought a small $20 Craftsman duffel shaped bag from Ace Hardware for work but a duffel bag type design is a catch-all so I'm looking for something a little more custom fit. Tool bags are either designed for carpenters or electricians for the most part.

There are two types of CNC machinists at work. Those for whom it's a career and those for whom it's a decent paying job. The former tend to have a mechanic's roll around tool box and work at one machine all the time and the latter walk in carrying a set of calipers and their steno pad and bounce around 3-4 machines. I'm somewhere in between. I'm new and at 60, won't be working there for 30 years so a big tool box doesn't make sense but I'm fully blue collar and like my tools.(and enjoy a 2 hour tool bag search with morning coffee)

An electrician's meter bag type seems like it will work.(meter as in multimeter, amp meter etc) The height is the larger dimension and they're small - 8-in W x 13-in H x 3.5-in D. A tool pouch basically. I need it to hold a set of 6" calipers in plastic case and a 6" x 9" stenographer's pad and not have those get buried. That and a few small tools and 2-3 pair of gloves.

Once the calipers, steno pad and gloves come out, they're out for the day. Pull those out and hang the bag out of the way. There's not enough work bench room to even set my little duffel style bag. They've got some really strong magnet hooks at work so I can hang it by the handle attachment rings right on the sliding door of the machine. There are enough external pockets to hold an assortment for any milling job and not have to take a single step to grab anything. Company has a 5 year warranty and nearly 5 star reviews everywhere.