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Cake day: January 26th, 2026

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  • I may or may not have started a woodworking hobby out of spite for flatpack furniture. At one time IKEA had some decent things available. The cheap stuff was always crap but if you spent a little more, you’d end up with a pretty solid piece of furniture.

    That’s just not the case anymore. The expensive IKEA stuff is quickly approaching the quality of the cheap stuff from 20 years ago.

    So far I’ve made a few TV consoles, a closet cabinet, a built in closet system, a desk, and some bedside tables. Oh and vertical pull out cabinets in my shop.

    Turns out if you have the space and don’t value your time, sanity, or apply a cost to tools, you can make anything you want! Except for a profit.





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    I ran in to the issue while packing of not giving one flying fuck of what went in to any particular box roughly 1/4 of the way in to packing.

    I’m down to just a handful of still kinda packed boxes that I occasionally need to open to rifle through to look for something.

    It has been 5 years.

    My partner has several boxes that have not been opened since we moved in. And several more that my mother in law dropped off when we moved in.

    I threatened to throw them away after a year but I just don’t have the heart in me to do that. It was always an empty threat, and I think it was obvious.