I can do some handyman types of things around the house, but I don't like it because I almost never know what I'm doing.
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I can do some handyman types of things around the house, but I don't like it because I almost never know what I'm doing.
I also hate that even if I do it myself, it seems like most tasks still end up costing $50 or $100. I'm just not in a financial position where $100 is "no big deal." I hate "wasting" the money on materials and tools I might only use once or use and then realize it was wrong and have to spend another $100 to do it right. (Or worse - have to hire someone to fix it anyway.)
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Anyway I'm posting this because I just spent a bunch of money at the hardware store and am procrastinating actually starting on the thing I'm gonna try to fix.
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And of course at the same time my mind can't help but wander to the many many much bigger things I need fixed in the house but that I have no hope of affording anytime soon. So in the meantime, it just continues to decay and there's nothing I can do about it. (Well, nothing except get a loan from the bank, probably, which is just kicking the financial can down the road even farther.)
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Repair job update: Still don't know what I'm doing, but now that I got past the scary "fully break stuff I might not know how to fix afterward" stage and have entered the "patch it up" stage, it at least *looks* like maybe it'll work out.
Maybe.
It's really upsetting that the physical world doesn't have git so I can just roll back my changes if I went down the wrong road and start again.
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I'm waiting for some spackle to dry and realizing I'm going to need to sand it and I don't have / can't find a sanding block. I somehow have sandpaper for a sanding block... but no actual block. How did that happen?
(I could make one with a chunk of wood or do without, but I need a paint brush anyway... sigh.)
Sooo... heading to the home improvement store for the second time!
I think my top score is 4 trips for one "this should be easy" job. Hopefully I don't have to break that record today.
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@bigzaphod take any wood or plastic block with a good size to fit in hand, wrap it in sandpaper, done. You dont need anything special
