Decades ago, I moved from Massachusetts to Florida. When I moved from that house to a new one, I discovered an unopened bathroom fan motor + blower wheel in the attic (left by a previous owner). “Nice” (head nod) I said to myself, and threw it in with everything else in the moving boxes.

Of course, my wife told me to “just leave it” and “you’re such a hoarder!” It stayed in that box when we moved again a decade later.

Today, one of our bathroom exhaust fans stopped working (for the 2nd time) so I decided to reach deep into my hoard of random crap. “I have just the thing!” I still remembered which box it was in and where I stored it in the attic above the garage!

BONUS: The old bracket nuts didn’t fit the new motor so I had to fish around in my collection of random nuts, bolts, and screws to find two exact matches. Which I had, of course—because I save all the screws of all the things 👍

I saved ~$37 and a trip to the hardware store today!

  • ikiddEnglish
    13·
    24 hours ago

    I’m of the firm belief that baseboards need at least 5 years being stored in the garage to properly acclimate to the particular environment of the microclimate that is my house and immediately surrounding area. My wife tries to get me to install them right away, after buying them, not understanding that if I did, it would warp the house so badly that it might collapse in on itself, taking space and time with it and eventually the entire known universe.

    You all owe your continued existence to my willpower and stubborness in the face of my wife’s annoyance at not having baseboards at the end of any home renovations.

    You’re welcome.

    • how_we_burned@lemmy.zip
      7·
      18 hours ago

      Is that the reason

      All I know is if I install something straight away it almost always fails but if I wait five years, it goes on with nay a problem.

      I have to be very Zen and focus on the projects I started five years prior at any given point

        • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netEnglish
          1·
          2 hours ago

          Although I would gently suggest that if there are many things that you have said you’re going to fix but haven’t yet, perhaps the person isn’t reminding you in a “hurry up and do the thing” kind of way, but in a “honey, are you doing okay? You try to do so much for us, and whilst I appreciate it, I do worry about how you’re coping. If you’re feeling overwhelmed, I’d rather you tell me “I’m not going to fix that thing for the foreseeable future” than to run yourself ragged”