Bought a brand new power stretcher thinking I needed it for every job. Turns out my old knee kicker handles 90% of residential rooms fine. Anyone else regret that purchase?
I was scooping poop every weekend like clockwork until a neighbor told me to just let the bedding build up and turn it, and now I barely smell ammonia even on hot days, has anyone else seen this big a change from one simple switch?
For years I'd stack lead shot bags on bellows to get them flat after replacing pleats. Last month a customer at my shop in Portland told me to just lay them open on a shelf for 12 hours. Tried it on a Kodak Retina and the pleats settled perfectly without creasing. Has anyone else ditched the weights for the slow method?
He just pointed at the joint and said 'that glue's got nowhere to go when it swells up' and walked off, ever had an old timer make you rethink something you thought was perfect?
Saw that stat in a UK wildlife trust article last night and it blew my mind. Makes me think twice before I get annoyed at caterpillars munching on my trees - has anyone else noticed a huge difference in bird activity around oaks vs other trees?
I was bouncing between cafes for 3 months in Medellin and my productivity tanked. Finally dropped $150 on a monthly pass at Selina in El Poblado and it paid for itself in a week. The coffee alone was costing me $8 a day before. Has anyone else tried adjusting their workspace setup on the road?
For three years straight I clipped every stem at a sharp 45 degree angle like the textbooks say. Then I took a class last fall at the Seattle Wholesale Flower Market and the instructor showed us hydrangeas cut straight across actually drink way more water. Turns out those woody stems suck up moisture better with a flat cut because the xylem tubes stay open. Now I only angle cut soft stems like tulips and daffodils. Has anyone else had better luck with certain flowers using a straight snip instead?
I was out visiting my uncle's farm in Spokane and he showed me this old 1990 Mazda Miata tucked away in his barn. It had been sitting for 7 years but the engine still turned over by hand. I offered him $300 and he took it. Has anyone else scored a project car from a family member or friend's property like that?
At a local LAN party last month, some dude watched me finish my custom loop build and said I had my three front intakes fighting my two top exhausts, creating dead zones inside the case. He showed me his thermal camera readings proving a 7 degree difference just by flipping one top fan. Do you trust the generic airflow rules or do you test your own setup before locking in your fan layout?
I figured I spent maybe $30 a month on coffee runs, but when I finally looked at the actual numbers in my budgeting app it was $87 for just last month alone. That was back in February and it took me until April to actually cut back and bring it down to $40. Anyone else get surprised by a category that seemed small but added up fast?