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.
This is how I ended up with too many smoke detectors, one of which was haunted.
Is there a nocontext community on Lemmy yet? This belongs there.
I think the extra smoke detector was just making noises because it felt left out.
I prefer to get halfway through a project, lose interest, and leave the materials in a desolate corner where I occasionally glance at them, think about how I could definitely finish said project for several weeks, while also finding something else to occupy my interest.
The real flex is to use one of these to cart around a single lightbulb.
Why is this picture taken in an abandoned construction building or something?
This is the secret part of Home Depot they let dads into when they can tell you’ve got a serious project going.
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.
I feel this way about Lowes vs home depot. Home depot for the real projects, Lowes to buy the designer hammer that never gets used…
In Germany we have hardware stores (is that the right description of stores like home depot?) that have a covered outdoor section where you can drive in with your car/ trailer and load up construction supplies and then pay.
If you are a real professional you probably go to “stores” that only sell building materials to businesses or you just get your materials delivered directly to the job site.
If you can find one.
When I have to grab one of these all I feel is the looming dread of a lot of work to do.
Me too. Those things are impossible to steer with any precision.
Also the actual project…
The trick is too pull them not push
Nah you just gotta get good at rear wheel steering. It’s actually really great, you can squeeze into way tighter spots than with front wheel steering. There’s a reason forklifts all have rear wheel steering.
Besides, the big one looks like it’s center pivot, not rear wheel.
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.
And I envy everyone who is just buying cute little stuff like a flower or some wall decoration. Lucky bastards! :)
Picard bought FIVE LIGHTS.
THERE! ARE! FOUR! LIGHTS!
I’m loading this bad boy up with all of the cutest plants
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.
Also helps if you’re in one of those stores where the toilets are out in the open like it’s another regular aisle. Stack up some boxes and you can position it to give yourself some privacy. Bring along some bottles of water too since sometimes the faucets don’t work.
