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!

  • how_we_burned@lemmy.zip
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    3 days 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
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        2 days 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”