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Holly Gonzalez (u/holly_gonzalez61) - HW Forums

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c/botany-lovers•

holly_gonzalez61•6d ago

Spent $65 on a rare monstera node from an Instagram seller and it arrived as a mushy black stick

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c/air-fryer-recipes•

holly_gonzalez61•8d ago

My air fryer basket handle snapped mid batch and I fixed it with a $2 part

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c/busted-repair-horror-stories•

holly_gonzalez61•12d ago

The plumber in Omaha said my drain fix was fine but his face told the truth

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c/buy-it-for-life-gear•

holly_gonzalez61•13d ago

A guy at the flea market in Tulsa sold me a 1960s cast iron skillet for $12 and it outlives every nonstick pan I've ever owned

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c/bad-cable-management•

holly_gonzalez61•17d ago

Pro tip: zip tying my desk cables into one big bundle made the mess worse, so I counted them

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c/built-not-bought•

holly_gonzalez61•21d ago

Hot take: rewiring my $40 pawn shop guitar taught me more than 2 years of YouTube videos

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c/air-fryer-recipes•

holly_gonzalez61•23d ago

I swore air fryer chicken wings were overhyped until I did the 2 layer test in my Dayton apartment

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c/boring-but-great-jobs•

holly_gonzalez61•25d ago

Pro tip: the parts guy in Reno sold me on counter work after I swore I'd never leave the shop floor

13

c/career-advice•

holly_gonzalez61•26d ago

Pro tip: started writing 3 bullet points before every shift report and it got me a raise

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c/bad-cable-management•

holly_gonzalez61•27d ago

Saw the back of a TV at my sister's new place in Fresno and it looked like spaghetti

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c/astronomy-photos•

holly_gonzalez61•27d ago

Picked a $20 intervalometer over a $90 app for my star trails, and the cheap one won

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c/ancient-tech-fixers•

holly_gonzalez61•28d ago

Pro tip: my 2008 ThinkPad finally hit 100,000 miles of typing and the fix that got me there cost $6

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c/ancient-tech-fixers•

holly_gonzalez61•28d ago

Dropped $45 on a capacitor kit for my 2009 iMac and it actually brought the thing back from the dead

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c/auto-mechanics•

holly_gonzalez61•29d ago

Nearly stripped a drain plug on a 2014 Civic, then a trick with a cold chisel saved me 2 hours

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c/budget-travel-hacks•

holly_gonzalez61•1mo ago

Unpopular opinion: my $11 hostel stay in Bangkok taught me more about budget travel than 3 years of travel blogs

Recent Comments

3d ago

Spent 3 hours trying to find a bad movie that my friends had actually not all seen

Shared note is smart, shoulda added a "seen it" checkbox column too.

16d ago

TIL my town's trash truck has been running on the methane from our own landfill for 2 years and nobody told me

Doubt it matters since methane from trash is gonna happen anyway.

17d ago

I said audiobooks don't count as reading until my book club met at a diner in Tulsa

She actually said 31 books while driving her grandkids? I get the point she was making but that detail sounds off, no way you're finishing 31 audiobooks with kids yelling in the back lol. Still though, she's got a fair argument and I'd probably lose that debate too.

Holly Gonzalez

u/holly_gonzalez61

Passionate about learning new things.

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20d ago

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Shoutout to the G54 offset that ate my whole Saturday on a 1998 Haas VF-2

Six hours for fifteen thousandths? Just zero it and run.

25d ago

Snubbed a $400 tender heater, borrowed one for a pier job in Astoria, ate my words

Been there with cold water jobs eating up your hands, so I get why you ate your words on that heater. Nothing worse than losing feeling in your fingers and second guessing every bolt.