Had a guy in his 70s at the Ace in Portland show me to knock twice and pause, not once like I always did. He said listen for the dull hum instead of just a solid thud. Anyone else been shown a trick by a random stranger that totally changed how you do something?
Thought it would be a 20 minute shim job. Old house in Denver. Floors are all off. Got the hinge side level but the latch side was 3/8 off. Had to pull the whole casing and redo the rough opening. 4 hours and 2 trips to the hardware store. Anyone else ever fight a door that just won't behave?
So I saw this thing online about how making your bed can kickstart your whole routine. I laughed it off at first but figured why not try it for a week. That was almost 3 years ago in my apartment in Phoenix. What surprised me wasnt the made bed itself but how it stopped me from jumping right into doomscrolling social media first thing. The 5 seconds it takes to pull up the blanket turned into me making coffee and actually looking at the sunrise out my kitchen window. Did anyone else have a dumb small habit that snowballed into something bigger without realizing it?
He told me he drills a 3/8 inch hole through the latch plate and drops a galvanized nail in there as a pin, and I spent last Sunday retrofitting all three of my gates wondering why I never thought of something that simple.