Clinton Hardware

🔨 CLINTON HARDWARE SERVICES LIVE ON! 🔨

Missing those little repairs you used to bring to Clinton Hardware? Well, Milton is here to help! ❤️

Milton’s handyman business, JML Handyman, can take care of screen repairs right on site, lamp repairs, and many of those small household repairs that Clinton Hardware used to help our customers with.

And don’t think he’s limited to the little things! Whether you have a small repair or a larger home project, Milton is ready to lend a hand. 🛠️

👉 Go like his page, give him a call, and SAVE his information so you have it when that next project pops up! We’re so happy that JML Handyman will continue to serve the Clinton community, with the same great service you expected from Clinton Hardware❤️🔨

Lets keep the Clinton Hardware spirit of helping your neighbors around by supporting your local small businesses!

Looks like Milton is getting ready for business! 🔑

Milton is getting his new shop ready to welcome customers — and we’re excited to share that he’ll be taking over the key-cutting business from Clinton Hardware! ❤️

He’ll be offering regular key duplication AND programmable auto keys, so you won’t have to give up the key service you’ve relied on for so many years.

We know everyone is going to have questions, so check back tomorrow for all the information you need to know about Milton and his new shop, as David will be there tomorrow to help Milton with his opening announcement!!

David may be retired… but the key machines did not! 🔑😉

FIRST STOP IN RETIREMENT! 🎉💍

David’s retirement is officially underway, and what better way to start than celebrating his oldest son getting married last weekend! ❤️

From closing the doors at Clinton Hardware to celebrating a brand-new chapter for the family… retirement is off to a pretty great start! 🥂

Congratulations to the happy couple! ❤️

Well… that’s a wrap. ❤️🔨

Clinton Hardware is officially closed, and David’s long, winding, sometimes exhausting, sometimes hilarious road to retirement has finally come to an end.

Over the past several months, we’ve shared stories about customers, employees, vendors, friends, family, and all the little moments that made Clinton Hardware so much more than just a hardware store.

We’ve told stories about only a VERY small percentage of people who truly meant the world to us and helped make Clinton Hardware what it was. There are literally thousands of stories we could have told… and probably a few we shouldn’t have told! 😂

We shared David’s messages and thoughts as he took each step toward that final closing of the doors. We shared the staff happenings, the laughs, the craziness, the tears, and all those little behind-the-scenes moments that usually stayed between us.

And through it all, YOU came along for the ride.

From the bottom of our little tool cabinet hearts, THANK YOU. ❤️

Thank you for reading, laughing with us, reminiscing with us, sharing your own memories, and reminding us over and over again just how special Clinton Hardware was.

Now we’re going to take a short Facebook break. We need a little time to let this past year sink in, catch our breath, wipe the dust off, figure out what retirement actually looks like, and start writing the next chapters of our lives.

But don’t worry…

WE’LL BE BACK! 😉

In a few weeks, we’ll have some exciting announcements about:

🔨 Screen repairs
🔑 Key cutting
🦵 And, of course, the burning question everyone wants answered…

Did Dad ever get around to fixing that knee of his?! 😂

Until then, thank you for being part of the Clinton Hardware family.

The doors may be closed, but the memories, friendships, laughs, and stories will be with us forever

Clinton Hardware may have been a building… but YOU were what made it everyone's favorite local hardware store ❤️

— The Clinton Hardware Family 🔨❤️

We are so honored to have The BayNet share David's Retirement journey...

🐴 JOE, NICK & PISCATAWAY HORSE FARM 🐴

Some customers you remember because of what they bought. Others you remember because of the people they are. Joe and Nick Edelen from Piscataway Trails, LLC Horse Farm are definitely the second kind. ❤️

For as long as we can remember, Clinton Hardware has kept Piscataway Horse Farm supplied with the essentials — wheelbarrows, rope, garden hoses and chain that you need when you're running a horse farm! 🐴

Nick was usually back at the farm keeping an eye on things, while Joe was the one who would stop into Clinton Hardware to grab whatever was needed to fix a fence, replace a hose that had seen better days, or take care of whatever the farm had managed to break that week. 😂

And Joe never just came in for supplies.

He flirted with the cashiers, joked around with the guys, and always had a smile on his face. You knew when Joe walked through the door, you were going to get a little conversation along with whatever he came to buy!

Joe and Nick grew up right here in Clinton and now run the horse farm their father, Joe, started. They are two of the friendliest guys around and the kind of people who are always willing to help somebody else.

We even remember one particularly cold winter when Joe bought a heater from us — not because he needed a heater, but because someone else needed one. That's just the kind of guys they are.

And now that Clinton Hardware is officially closed and we actually have a little free time on our hands...

Maybe NOW we can finally take you up on that horseback ride you guys have been telling us to come down for all these years!

Thank you, Joe and Nick. We are lucky to have called you customers — and even luckier to call you friends. ❤️

***Throwback picture of our very own Mr. O and his daughters on a trail ride at Piscataway Farms.....Joe invited them down because Mr. O's wife was dealing with medical issues, and he thought the girls could use a little fun***

McCall’s Plumbing was one of the very first customers to walk through the doors of Clinton Hardware after Clyde Billman purchased the business from Mr. Ripple!

Clyde was a businessman, and apparently he didn’t waste much time getting down to business! 😂 He quickly talked Brian McCall into opening a Clinton Hardware house account for his plumbing business. And that account was opened some 60 YEARS AGO! 😳

Fast forward six decades, and McCall’s Plumbing was one of the very last house accounts we closed out ,

Through all those years, Clinton Hardware and McCall’s Plumbing have always supported one another. They were one of our top plumbing referrals when customers came into the store looking for someone they could trust.

And it didn’t matter if it was Brian, his son Kevin and wife Rachel, or any of their employees stopping in for supplies — you could pretty much guarantee there would be laughs, some picking on each other, and usually a little bit of nonsense before they walked back out the door! 😂

That’s what made Clinton Hardware so special. It wasn’t just about selling plumbing supplies… it was about the relationships that lasted decades.

From Brian walking through our doors all those years ago, to Kevin and Rachel continuing the family business, we are so grateful that McCall’s Plumbing has been part of the Clinton Hardware story for more than 60 years. ❤️

Thank you, McCall’s Plumbing, for the business, the friendship, and MOST OF ALL… the laughs!

***We did a throw back picture for this shout out post.....because what would Clinton Hardware's page be without our beloved Facebook Ron & his antics. We still miss him everyday***