Decades ago, I moved from Massachusetts to Florida. When I moved from that house to a new one, I discovered an unopened bathroom fan motor + blower wheel in the attic (left by a previous owner). “Nice” (head nod) I said to myself, and threw it in with everything else in the moving boxes.
Of course, my wife told me to “just leave it” and “you’re such a hoarder!” It stayed in that box when we moved again a decade later.
Today, one of our bathroom exhaust fans stopped working (for the 2nd time) so I decided to reach deep into my hoard of random crap. “I have just the thing!” I still remembered which box it was in and where I stored it in the attic above the garage!
BONUS: The old bracket nuts didn’t fit the new motor so I had to fish around in my collection of random nuts, bolts, and screws to find two exact matches. Which I had, of course—because I save all the screws of all the things 👍
I saved ~$37 and a trip to the hardware store today!
I’m of the firm belief that baseboards need at least 5 years being stored in the garage to properly acclimate to the particular environment of the microclimate that is my house and immediately surrounding area. My wife tries to get me to install them right away, after buying them, not understanding that if I did, it would warp the house so badly that it might collapse in on itself, taking space and time with it and eventually the entire known universe.
You all owe your continued existence to my willpower and stubborness in the face of my wife’s annoyance at not having baseboards at the end of any home renovations.
You’re welcome.
When I eat too many beans, I get Motor Assy too.
…I’ll see myself out.
…I’ll see myself out.
And leave the door open, sheesh
I feel like we all share in this historic win
And the bonus was just chef’s kiss.
Seeing vice grip printed on something that is not channel locks is mildly infuriating.
Seeing vice grip printed on something…
I think you’re suffering from the same vice as little Miss Spelings.
A vice grip would truly be an immoral tool.
Heh, damnit
This gives me great hope for my box of obsolete cables and adapters.
You never know when you’ll need to hook up an IDE floppy drive
I mean … you do know, but you might not want to admit it
Mr President, we need to reset the nuclear codes to restart earth! But we need an IDE floppy drive!
Mr President(Space Noodle): I need to get to my 2026 attic!
I still have the proprietary cable that lets you hook up a 1992-ish Sony Handycam to a TV with RCA inputs.
I know exactly where it is in my attic: Under the S video cables, an original FireWire cable, and the cable that lets you hook up two Atari Lynx portable consoles together in order to play Warbirds against each other in real time.
This is what we train for
If nothing else, you can strip them for copper!
Oh boy…I also have a perfectly working bathroom fan motor. In storage for around 15 years now, and rescued from my parent’s renovation. Good to know it may indeed be useful :)
Some day, one of your current bathroom fans will break its last wind. It’s seen some shit. On that good day, you won’t be a hoarder, you’ll be a prophet that saw the end coming back in 2011.
“I knew! I predicted this! Because I gave a crap and wish to give many more!”
Nice I did one of these not long ago. Second Story to had to put ina vent through the soffit, I paid some asshole to get up on a ladder and do that part.
