Comments on: Opportunities

By: defendUSA

defendUSA — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 18:24:51 +0000

There’s nothing more cool to know that your kids will be able to fix things because they are taught. My husband is a fixer and my youngest is also learning. He has fixed my dishwasher and fridge twice…You just have to love it!!

By: WhiteCoat

WhiteCoat — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 16:10:30 +0000

We did look at the other cabinets and one other cabinet was attached to the wall by just the backing as well. Fortunately, there isn’t a lot of stuff stored in the cabinet, so it shouldn’t pull off the backing like the one with the dishes.
Project for a rainy day, though …

By: WhiteCoat

WhiteCoat — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 16:08:32 +0000

Actually got him to learn the hard way about the adage “measure twice, cut once” when making a brace for the back of the cabinet.

By: SeaSpray

SeaSpray — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:51:28 +0000

And I should add ..I’ll use it for myself if tempted to take a shortcut.

By: SeaSpray

SeaSpray — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:50:31 +0000

Griffin – I REALLY like your comment, “do it right, or do it twice.”

That’s EXCELLENT and I will be mindful to use it in the future as the opportunity comes up.

Some one close to me is known to say, “It’s good enough.” Good enough is not good …IMO … unless it is a *temporary* solution.

By: Leslie

Leslie — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 22:32:23 +0000

That was a great way to bond with your son and teach him at the same time. I am so glad you did what you did instead of making him feel awful about himself.

Now….have you checked that the rest of the cabinets are properly affixed to the wall(s)? You don’t want to go through that again.

By: Griffin3

Griffin3 — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 20:19:32 +0000

I supply the muscle power, and have my eight-year-old son install cabinets with 3″ deck screws … all the time repeating hoary old adages like “it’s always good to have extra” and “do it right, or do it twice.”

Household projects are a heck of a lot better than watching TV, or playing Nintendo. Plus, think of all the character you’re building …

By: RSDS

RSDS — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 08:32:44 +0000

About ten years ago I had a kitchen cabinet fall off of the wall and land on top of me, sending dishes, that I was planning on selling, crashing to the flour. The person who installed it put the cabinet up too high (I used a tall ladder just to reach the lowest shelf), using just a couple of screw-nails in the dry-wall. The cabinet now sits on the floor in the middle of the living room.

By: SeaSpray

SeaSpray — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 04:57:19 +0000

What a great lesson and bonding time. Some parents would’ve lost it and he’d feel even lower than he did. You taught him some valuable lessons. he knows he can go to you with a mistake, problem and you can be trusted to help him work through it. His working on it helped him feel better if he was feeling guilty (doesn’t sound like his fault – a cabinet should not do that)for any reason and he learned how to fix something and got the satisfaction of a job well done.

Now …can you guys please come over and hang some outside doors and fix a crooked drawer? Oh and help with a back patio? What’s a few hundred miles or so.

“It sounded like a Greek wedding, but I wasn’t hearing anyone yelling “OPA!” ” Ha ha!

Once I was being incredibly lazy and I wanted a plate that was under a lot of smaller stacked plates, but didn’t take time to move them. Well …every single one of those plates went crashing out the door on the other side of the cabinet and smashed all over the floor. Not as bad as a whole cabinet ..but annoying and I never did that again.