16" DeWALT Tool Bag w/ 33 Pockets (Black) Expired

33 pockets sounds like a great feature if you're organized. If you're like me, that's just a potential 30 extra pockets to look in every single time I'm trying to find something I vaguely remembered putting in the bag.

I'm looking at the past year only, that's pretty much the best we can hope for.

My thoughts, and all of these are definitely my own opinion:

-A bag or box with upright hand tool storage is essential for efficient punchlist work and mobility.

-A rolling kit does not work well in scrub-in environments, like someone's home that they are currently living in, because the wheels drag the outside in.

-If you traverse long distances on foot, a basic rolling system is necessary. If you are getting a little older or expect to some day, your body will thank you.

-Most of the stackable rolling systems are too wide to comfortably roll through residential doorways without some care, and unstacking them takes up quite a bit of footprint.

-If you are regularly working out of more than 3 bags, you should consider a rolling bag (and pouch).

-If it regularly takes you more than 3 trips to your vehicle to load up, you should consider a stacking system.

I have bags and various cases. I've tried and still own components in most of the systems - some packout, tough system, rigid, and tstak, as well as pelican, nanuk, plano, veto, toughbuilt, milkcrates, 'boat n totes', clc, husky, buckets, etc. I have lots of Dewalt organizers: https://www.homedepot.com/p/DEWAL.../203367153

At base, I have a series of shelves for dedicated kits in bags and boxes- drywall tools, paint tools, router and accessories, metalworking, sockets and installation tools, etc. The humble shelf is the unifying organizer for my system, and it's non-denominational.

For house-calls, I use a clean, medium-sized custom tote bag with 40 pockets I made myself. It's not very different than this Dewalt bag, except that the classic straight-zipper never worked for me because it deforms the bag as it closes. This toughbuilt would have solved that problem for me, if it had existed at the time I designed my own: https://www.lowes.com/pd/TOUGHBUI...1003095642

For larger house calls or solo expo work, I recently added a Toughbuilt rolling tool bag which is very easy to maneuver. I can easily work out of it and it has enough additional space to add in items per job, such as my entire rotary hammer case and a couple socket sets:
https://www.lowes.com/pd/TOUGHBUI...1003095634
They make these in 14" and 22" as well.

Here's where rolling bags really come in for me: I work back of house at a lot of trade-expos which requires small and medium-sized tools of a wide array for rapid assembly and breakdown of display booths of any design-- lots of assembly and carpentry, sometimes with metal fab, electrical or plumbing tasks. I move from place to place, frequently with lots of other contractor teams moving about, and lots of them working within the same space, then I have to move to another location within the building and accomplish a different task, dozens of times. I regularly walk 10 miles in a day with tools and do lots of small tasks and a few more involved ones.

Team jobs is where stackable cases become crucial: we use a series of packout and ridgid stacks for bringing team equipment and gear to site (this travels in a van and lives back of house). This makes it so that we are managing 3-4 rolling towers rather than 30-50 bags, which would be chaotic. We use plastic rolling service carts when multiple breakout kits are required for one team on the floor. This gives them the ability to layout some of their tools while keeping everything mobile.

And at home, I use this: https://www.lowes.com/pd/TOUGHBUI...5005463011 which holds 1 of everything I need frequently and 0 of things that I really shouldn't be lugging back and forth.