I prefer to buy one or two things, start the project, realize I don't understand the project, watch a couple more YouTube videos. Go back to the hardware store. Buy some things I had no idea I needed. Return to the project. Fuck something up. Go back to the hardware store to fix or replace my mistake.
You don't need a cart when you spread it out into 3-4 trips.
Shh, only in the truck when you are all alone. You can't show weakness to the materials.
Drywall mud is nothing compared to tile grout. That shit knows you're terrified the second you step in the store. It's laughing at you while you stare at the various bags on the shelf, knowing that you will inevitably mix the wrong amount of water and end up with a thin-set mess and uneven floors. A grout float? Hah, good luck aspiring DIYer, the only floating you'll be doing is in a bath of your own tears after you realize how much you hate tiling.
True. I had to tap out at a half-tiled shower stall before I realized that I am hot garbage at cutting tile. Fortunately, the handyman we hired did a bang-up job, and was tipped substantially for the effort. But I never made it to applying grout myself.
I prefer to get halfway through a project, lose interest, and leave the materials in a desolate corner where I occasionally glance at them, think about how I could definitely finish said project for several weeks, while also finding something else to occupy my interest.
Me too. Those things are impossible to steer with any precision.
Also the actual project..
I’m actually aware of that, and do pull them, it was said in jest. Tongue in cheek sort of thing.
But thank you, all the same :)
People would stack 40ish 80 pound quikcrete bags and ditch it when they gave up moving them
Nah you just gotta get good at rear wheel steering. It's actually really great, you can squeeze into way tighter spots than with front wheel steering. There's a reason forklifts all have rear wheel steering.
Besides, the big one looks like it's center pivot, not rear wheel.
One time I'm loading up sheets of drywall and some kid comes up asking if I needed someone to do drywall. I said no. I went home and hung that shit myself. But I sure thought long and hard about it as I was dragging that cart out of the store.
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And I envy everyone who is just buying cute little stuff like a flower or some wall decoration. Lucky bastards! :)
This is the secret part of Home Depot they let dads into when they can tell you've got a serious project going.
its just the anazon wharhous in 1999
edit: wearhouse lol man never let your doctors give you topamax more like topaTard
Warehouse.
I don't know what the other commenter is doing with clothing.....
Also, Amazon.
One time I went in with the intent to buy some big stuff. Ended up changing my mind but I needed gloves.. So I had one of these but just a pair of gloves sitting on it lol
My dad used to make get the cart for him so I'd grab these, then we'd roll up to the checkout with a 5 gal bucket and a tape measure or some shit 😁
The real power move is to grab one of those contractor buckets and use it as a shopping basket. Because how else are you going to keep all those loose nuts and bolts from going everywhere?
Look at Mr. Money Bags buying the specialty loose nuts and bolts.
They're like $2.50/bolt these days. God dam
It's also ridiculous the markup on fasteners. I used to work in nuts and bolts and the going rate was like 90-97% markup on fasteners.
To be fair, when you absolutely need that one or two special bolts to put your lawnmower back together, the markup isn't a big deal.
Otherwise, I'm buying stuff by the box, and starting to prefer metric more and more.
I do the revserse and try to put a dozen 2x4s and a couple small sheets of wood into a regular cart causing it to be difficult to maneuver through the aisles.
Home Despot - a place for wannabe interior decorators. Like Ron Swanson said to an employee at HD "I know more than you."
People with manly man projects go to real lumber yards where you lean on a counter and talk to a clerk and a yardman pulls and brings you your materials with a forklift and loads them on your trailer - because strapping your load down to a trailer and driving away is a manly man thing to do...........No little carts needed.
I feel this way about Lowes vs home depot. Home depot for the real projects, Lowes to buy the designer hammer that never gets used...
In Germany we have hardware stores (is that the right description of stores like home depot?) that have a covered outdoor section where you can drive in with your car/ trailer and load up construction supplies and then pay.
If you are a real professional you probably go to "stores" that only sell building materials to businesses or you just get your materials delivered directly to the job site.
LPT ... push one of these around Home Depot to look like you know what you're doing .... even if you just came into the store to use the toilet.
Also helps if you're in one of those stores where the toilets are out in the open like it's another regular aisle. Stack up some boxes and you can position it to give yourself some privacy. Bring along some bottles of water too since sometimes the faucets don't work.
The last time I used one of these was buying drywall because it only comes in two sizes with no in-between, too damn big and patch kits that are good for nothing.