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[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I prefer to buy one or two things, start the project, realize I don't understand the project, watch a couple more YouTube videos. Go back to the hardware store. Buy some things I had no idea I needed. Return to the project. Fuck something up. Go back to the hardware store to fix or replace my mistake.

You don't need a cart when you spread it out into 3-4 trips.

[–] EdibleFriend 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] raynethackery 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Shh, only in the truck when you are all alone. You can't show weakness to the materials.

[–] Whelks_chance 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Spirit levels can smell fear.

[–] dejected_warp_core 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Drywall mud is nothing compared to tile grout. That shit knows you're terrified the second you step in the store. It's laughing at you while you stare at the various bags on the shelf, knowing that you will inevitably mix the wrong amount of water and end up with a thin-set mess and uneven floors. A grout float? Hah, good luck aspiring DIYer, the only floating you'll be doing is in a bath of your own tears after you realize how much you hate tiling.

[–] Drivebyhaiku 3 points 1 year ago

The trauma is real.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Crying is implied

[–] Feidry 7 points 1 year ago

Are you me?

[–] dejected_warp_core 6 points 1 year ago

Always plan for an extra hardware store trip. Always.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

When I have to grab one of these all I feel is the looming dread of a lot of work to do.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Me too. Those things are impossible to steer with any precision.

Also the actual project..

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

The trick is too pull them not push

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I’m actually aware of that, and do pull them, it was said in jest. Tongue in cheek sort of thing.

But thank you, all the same :)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

One time I'm loading up sheets of drywall and some kid comes up asking if I needed someone to do drywall. I said no. I went home and hung that shit myself. But I sure thought long and hard about it as I was dragging that cart out of the store.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

And I envy everyone who is just buying cute little stuff like a flower or some wall decoration. Lucky bastards! :)

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why is this picture taken in an abandoned construction building or something?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago

This is the secret part of Home Depot they let dads into when they can tell you've got a serious project going.

[–] MaxVoltage 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

its just the anazon wharhous in 1999

edit: wearhouse lol man never let your doctors give you topamax more like topaTard

[–] camr_on 13 points 1 year ago

Bro that topamax hitting lmao

[–] capnminus 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Picard bought FIVE LIGHTS.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

One of the best episodes of TNG.

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[–] GladiusB 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Like we give a shit. I'm glad when my projects are under 100

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[–] plantedworld 25 points 1 year ago

One time I went in with the intent to buy some big stuff. Ended up changing my mind but I needed gloves.. So I had one of these but just a pair of gloves sitting on it lol

[–] Thcdenton 22 points 1 year ago

My dad used to make get the cart for him so I'd grab these, then we'd roll up to the checkout with a 5 gal bucket and a tape measure or some shit 😁

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

I'm loading this bad boy up with all of the cutest plants

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

The real flex is to use one of these to cart around a single lightbulb.

[–] dejected_warp_core 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The real power move is to grab one of those contractor buckets and use it as a shopping basket. Because how else are you going to keep all those loose nuts and bolts from going everywhere?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Look at Mr. Money Bags buying the specialty loose nuts and bolts.

They're like $2.50/bolt these days. God dam

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's also ridiculous the markup on fasteners. I used to work in nuts and bolts and the going rate was like 90-97% markup on fasteners.

[–] dejected_warp_core 4 points 1 year ago

To be fair, when you absolutely need that one or two special bolts to put your lawnmower back together, the markup isn't a big deal.

Otherwise, I'm buying stuff by the box, and starting to prefer metric more and more.

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[–] FireRetardant 14 points 1 year ago

I do the revserse and try to put a dozen 2x4s and a couple small sheets of wood into a regular cart causing it to be difficult to maneuver through the aisles.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Home Despot - a place for wannabe interior decorators. Like Ron Swanson said to an employee at HD "I know more than you."

People with manly man projects go to real lumber yards where you lean on a counter and talk to a clerk and a yardman pulls and brings you your materials with a forklift and loads them on your trailer - because strapping your load down to a trailer and driving away is a manly man thing to do...........No little carts needed.

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[–] RememberTheApollo_ 8 points 1 year ago

If you can find one.

[–] Maggoty 8 points 1 year ago

Or you're about to do some Home Depot Surfing!

Either way...

[–] son_named_bort 7 points 1 year ago

How else are you going to show everyone you have wood?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Are these not kick scooters

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

LPT ... push one of these around Home Depot to look like you know what you're doing .... even if you just came into the store to use the toilet.

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[–] Bondrewd 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I legit thought this meme was about buying one of these.

[–] wreckedcarzz 4 points 1 year ago

That's the best part, they don't even charge you for them! You can just take them!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The last time I used one of these was buying drywall because it only comes in two sizes with no in-between, too damn big and patch kits that are good for nothing.

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