Your precious little ingenue

Who wired my fucking house. Give me a fucking name. I just wanna talk

…we are the children of the DIYers who didn’t burn

@thebibliosphere

oh god.  I hear so many stories from customers in retail, and am so glad my parents have always believed in hiring people who knew what they were doing because it would be faster and probably cost less.

As a homeowner you gotta know when a job is beyond your skills. You also need to factor in the consequences of fucking it up.

Part of it is boomers grew up with parents who were part of this giant new suburban generation and their parents had this ‘we can do anything, we won WWII!’ attitude - and new markets like Popular Mechanics drove all the DIY stuff before safety and regulations caught up. I am quite capable of doing some serious work but it does come down to - can I do it right? Can I do it better than a pro? Will it be safe/up to code? Things like the shed I built, it ain’t going anywhere but then again - no power wired to it and it is a small outbuilding. Not like tearing out a structural wall in my house. Also hitting my 50s my body disagrees on what I can accomplish too, time does equal money and skill too, so sometimes (most times) it’s better to pony up for a contractor.

My first house, when we renovated the kitchen we found out that the ENTIRE KITCHEN had been wired with ungrounded two-prong household 6′ extension cords connected together, plugged into each other and secured with electrical tape on one end, with the other end spliced into the main house wiring.  The fact that the house hadn’t burned down was a goddamn miracle. 

My kitchen floor is cracking because someone before me DIY installed it and they didn’t put the proper base in under the tile so they continually come loose and knock into each other/break the grout. Had a professional attempt to re-tile one section where it had gotten really bad and within a month they were loose again.

my (boomer) father built houses for a living for half his adult life, and he and my mother built every building on their property themselves (house, barn, assorted outbuildings) and the two things he always insists on hiring a contractor for are plumbing and electrical. The consequences of fucking up either of those are never worth the cost savings of attempting DIY.

catholic guilt vs protestant belief in your own inherent superiority, fight

wait no I just remembered a few hundred years of history I take this post back

The magic of this is the timing, but especially the acting. Just - absolutely perfection in selling this.

you know you could’ve just said “no they don’t have wifi” and that would’ve answered the question

of course the fuckign flubber gif doesnt work. my life is hell

We should ever be on the look for right-wing ways to sell left-wing policy.