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When I had a garage/shop, I had a drawer in the toolbox with 4-6 pairs of safety glasses including one of the ones like you might use in a high school or college chemistry lab that doesn't really protect from projectiles but keeps chemicals out of your eyes when you're spraying things.

It was not unusual for me to have gloves depending upon what I was doing.

Using several of the power tools, especially the 12" compound miter saw, I wore my shooting ear muffs. The "sing" of the blade while cutting was high pitched and obnoxious with the motor sound to go with it. With the hearing protection, it was soooo much nicer.

I also had a cheap respirator that I picked up from HD. It was so much easier to breath in than one of the masks that looks like a hospital mask because of the one-way valves.

I also took the safety shield off of my table saw. Wait, that's wrong, but I did. I did however use a pusher stick and was very, very careful to keep myself away from the moving blade.