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My attempt to go viral with a 'perfect' backyard fire pit cost me $400
Honestly, I saw a video of a guy making a perfect stone circle fire pit that got millions of views. I spent a weekend and $400 on nice, flat stones and sand to recreate it. The video made it look easy, but my pit flooded after the first rain and all the stones shifted. Ngl, I should've just dug a simple hole. Has anyone else wasted cash trying to copy a viral DIY project that looked way simpler than it was?
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joelh644d ago
Oh man, my buddy did something just like that with a fancy outdoor pizza oven build. He watched one of those smooth, fast videos and dropped about three hundred bucks on special bricks and mortar. The thing looked great for a week until he tried a real hot fire and the whole chimney part cracked right down the middle. He ended up ordering pizza that night anyway.
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evan_wilson184d ago
Man I used to think those videos were legit. Then I tried to build that same floating deck everyone was doing. The video made it look like an afternoon with some pallets and screws. My version wobbled so bad I had to take the whole thing apart. Now I just watch them for laughs.
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