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2d ago
inUpdate: went from 12 long boxes to 4 shelves in my closet over 6 months
Four shelves sounds great until you buy one more short box at a con and the whole run has to shift. I give it six months before the shelf is packed tight and you are back to stacking boxes in the closet. Sorting by story arc also falls apart the second you get into a title that crosses over with three others, because now the arc lives in four spots and you are pulling books from every shelf to read one event. Boxes are boring but they hold a lot and they do not care if you stop bagging halfway through. Shelves look nice on day one, but they run out of room fast and then you are making hard calls about what stays out. You proved you can keep up with a system for six months, but one slow week of new books is all it takes.
4d ago
inTIL the Folgers 'Peter Comes Home' ad was actually a rewrite of a 1985 British ad for a different coffee brand, and I only found out because of a yard sale
Remember when every ad was just a UK one with new accents?
7d ago
inTook a $40 gamble on a used control board from a parts guy in Tulsa instead of the $210 new one, and I'm still not sure I won
That "swore it tested good" line is the part that always gets you, because testing on a bench is not the same as running under a real load. A buddy of mine did the same thing with a used board for his fridge, it ran a week then died, and he ended up buying new anyway plus losing a Saturday. For me it depends on how hard the board is to get to, because if I have to pull the dryer apart twice, saving $170 stops feeling like saving.