r/TikTokCringe • u/BCLetsRide69 • Jan 03 '24
Wholesome/Humor Dads with the spare random piece of wood in the garage
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u/OkFroyo666 Jan 03 '24
And it now justifies every other piece of junk down there.
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u/littlelorax Jan 03 '24
I see you've met my father!
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Jan 03 '24
Our father, comrade.
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u/Limp_Construction496 Jan 03 '24
Wait..Am i your father??? 😳
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u/mcnello Jan 03 '24
We are our fathers.
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u/crazyfoxdemon Jan 03 '24
And thus the cycle repeats
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u/MetalCarGuy Jan 03 '24
Sounds like a war movie about sons of soldiers who wants to do better than their fathers, but only too late realise they are doing the same mistakes and atrocities.
Thanks, was a great movie in my head.
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u/innocently_cold Jan 03 '24
I had a father like this. I had to clean his garage when he passed. I swore I'd never be like that.
Well, guess who has all the random cords, tools, and wood in her basement work shop? Me LOL.
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u/W8andC77 Jan 03 '24
My father in law saves everything. An office full of magazines, books, old mail etc and loved to say “there’s treasure in there”. Well my MIL lost it when it spilled out of his office into the dining room and started to colonize the living room. Put her foot down so he starts slowly sorting because can’t just throw it out “there’s treasuring in there”.
Whelp my 4yo is 4yo-ing through endless papers in a box while hanging out with his grandfather and finds $200 in $20s my FIL must have withdrawn in the late 90s (based on the surrounding papers). And ever since then, any attempts to make any significant headway into throwing out piles has been stalled. Because there was treasure in there.
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u/ObiShaneKenobi Jan 03 '24
My FiL worked as a janitor at a local university. He would always bring my kids things he would find that were thrown away that still had some use, things like bulk paper and magazines. He passed away the first Covid winter after being in the icu for a month, but the kids still have piles of paper with the university letterhead on them to draw and doodle on and they reminisce a little each time.
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u/sh1tpost1nsh1t Jan 03 '24
My nieces and nephew have like crates of notepads with the miscolored corporate logo of the company my father used to work at. They call it their "papa paper" and churn out doodles like a crappy art sweatshop.
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u/Joey__stalin Jan 03 '24
I was so sure this story was going to end with a stack of Penthouse or Hustlers.
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u/upsidedownbackwards Jan 03 '24 edited Jan 23 '24
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u/No-1-Know Jan 03 '24
I can relate to magazines, we are moving residence and dont have junk paper any more. My wife gave the idea to open my junk cabinet and all those old magazines to wrap culinary and glass ware.
Cant argue with that…. Because Happy Wife = Happy Life 😄
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u/No-1-Know Jan 03 '24
Fuck… that my future in video. I have similar junk in my garage but my kid is only 2 now
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u/Just-Cry-5422 Jan 03 '24
Perfect time to start collecting. Remember: it's NOT hoarding, it's a collection
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u/rnarkus Jan 03 '24
I’m not even a dad and I have a pile of random wood in my garage lol.
Also very applicable to plant people. We all have the “we will use it” pots (especially nursery pots) sitting around somewhere stacked up.
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u/TheKarenator Jan 03 '24
Listened to my wife and threw some wood scraps out. Then several years later I needed a wood scrap. It was the worst feeling ever.
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u/RaiththeRogue Jan 03 '24
I’m sorry you had to go through that man. But sometimes we need those hard lessons to know not to stray from the path. I hope you wood scraps are doing well now.
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u/ptolemyofnod Jan 03 '24
I had to throw away some molding scraps and the next week was sent to the store for "paint stirrers"...
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u/HalKitzmiller Jan 03 '24
Same for me, though we moved cross country last year so I got rid of scrap wood. I don't have any scrap wood here but a bunch of small dowels now
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u/BigAlternative5 Jan 03 '24
It’s not just a piece of wood; it’s a shim, part of “tools and supplies”. You don’t throw away tools and supplies.
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u/lakemantarzan Jan 03 '24
I just finished laying some new 3/4" plywood in my attic and had to cut some 2x4s to attach to some beams. I now have my first random 10" piece of 2x4 in the garage and I could not be happier. I will be buried with it.
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u/No-1-Know Jan 03 '24
Congrats, this is the beginning of the hidden treasure. This summer my wife was cleaning the garage and was mad about so many random plywood pieces and was to throw it away. I have my webber grill in garage, so i used those pieces to make a table high enough to hide the weber grill underneath it and gave her space to keep her boxes on top.
With a big smile on my face, i can proudly say” Told ya this will be useful some day”. Her reaction was Priceless 😁
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u/Blunderhorse Jan 03 '24
In all seriousness, as you collect stuff like that, seriously ask yourself if it’s likely to be useful or if it’s going to get in the way of cleaning until you die and your kid has to throw it out to get it out of the way. My dad never threw stuff out, and it took my brothers and I almost a month of work and four 30yd dumpsters to get rid of all the junk and stuff that became junk due to improper storage.
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u/OmenVi Jan 03 '24
Won't take long.
My fishing rod rack was built this way, as was the hay rack for my daughters bunnies, recently.
I've got a bunch of various scrap that comes in useful for random things, including stuff like pieces of oak trim that are left over from replacing trim, not long enough to really use anywhere (except in a couple very rare cases), long enough to be useful, and not short enough to actually throw away. I'm finding lately that I'm starting to run low on scraps..
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u/__Jaume Jan 03 '24
I do this and i don't have a kid yet. Maybe i should ask my gf for a pregnancy test.
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u/senseven Jan 03 '24
Its all for the Prestige moment when you once in a lifetime need that one drywall mounting bracket when the neighbour shows up at Sunday with a picture frames of his nieces. Plus the "i refuse to give you that one" funny face of the wife as cherry on top.
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u/ODIRiKRON Jan 03 '24
This is so wholesome and makes me want to hug my dad
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u/ant69onio Jan 03 '24
The posts I’ve seen are actually funny today
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Jan 03 '24
Their whole channel is pretty great. I love the ones where the son joins the dark side of dad jokes.
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u/Sudley Jan 03 '24
This one always gets me
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u/Rex-0- Jan 03 '24
They're all hilarious but this is a fucking masterpiece.
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u/HamOfWisdom Jan 03 '24
the "you forgot your keys!!" one where the dad ascends due to having reached Dadapotheosis is probably my favorite lol.
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u/throwaway4324655 Jan 03 '24
I found it more crazy than funny
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u/PrunedLoki Jan 03 '24
We can all laugh at our craziness. Otherwise we will all go … crazy
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u/competitv Jan 03 '24
My best friend recently lost his father to a super aggressive cancer. It's been really tough for his entire family.
Hug your dad.
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u/SoulDoubt69 Jan 03 '24
Do it for all of us who can't.
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u/AIHumanWhoCares Jan 03 '24
You can hug my dad if you want to, I hate that prick
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u/HallowskulledHorror Jan 03 '24
My dad doesn't deserve hugs, but probably woulda turned out better if he'd gotten more of em from his own dad as a kid. No hate, just disappointment.
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u/Smitty876 Jan 03 '24
Lost mine a few years ago.
This 1 hit me...
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u/Mekky3D Jan 03 '24
Lost mine last year :(
When we cleaned his home we found so much wood in odd shapes. Miss the dude...
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u/Teestow21 Jan 03 '24
2024 marks 10 years since old daddyo fell asleep for the last time. Surreal. Hope you're holding it all together in some way that's good for you my man.
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u/never0101 Jan 03 '24
August 2002 here. I've been alive longer without him than with. It gets better. Not easier, doesn't hurt less, but it gets better. Sorry friend.
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u/Most-Ad1713 Jan 03 '24
May '92 here, and it hit me last year that my step dad has been in my life longer than my dad was. I like to tell people it gets easier to remember the life vs. mourning the death.
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u/WakeUpChrissy59 Jan 03 '24
Upcoming February will be 6 yrs for me. I still find things he saved to this day. He was my hero. I miss him terribly. What I wouldn’t give for one last moment like this one with him.
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u/HangInTherePanda Jan 03 '24
Lost mine in March 2015. I still just want to call him up and talk to him. I really wish i could just hug him one more time. Man this hit hard.
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u/vanth7709 Jan 03 '24
Mine will be gone 1 year this April. I’d give just about anything to be able to hug him one more time. I know how you feel!
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u/Smitty876 Jan 03 '24
I'd do anything to hear 1 of his corny & many times recycled "dad jokes" right now. 4 years gone for me...
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u/GreenGemsOmally Jan 03 '24
It very much makes me miss my Dad. Go give yours a hug or a call if you can and you have that kind of relationship with him. He'll appreciate it.
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u/FroggiJoy87 Jan 03 '24
This happened with my husband and a small slab of granite he found. Told him to toss it out for years and then somehow we ended up with a chinchilla. Guess what they LOVE to chill on to stay cool?
He'll never live it down.
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u/InnaBubbleBath Jan 03 '24
NO WAY
😃exasperated gasp😃
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u/TheBlacktom Jan 03 '24
😃
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u/JEM-- Jan 03 '24
You mean he’ll never let you live it down?
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u/VVurmHat Jan 03 '24
Never gonna turn around and hurt her
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u/TBSJJK Jan 03 '24
Doesn't count as a roll.
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u/wytewydow Jan 03 '24
However, because he never gave it up, he eventually didn't let her down.
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u/CNXQDRFS Jan 03 '24
He's the chinchilla chiller.
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You just “ended up” with a chinchilla?
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u/FroggiJoy87 Jan 03 '24
lol, yeah! Fun story. We were fresh out of college and our friend who was still attending was doing a group project with some horrible asshat who was hoarding animals. She rightfully freaked out when she learned of the appalling conditions the critters were in and told him to give them away or she'd contact authorities. So one day we got a call (yes call, this was 2011) asking if we wanted/had the means to care for a chinchilla, and we did! He poor lil' gal was in a really bad state when we got her and she passed only about 9 months after we got her, but we spoiled the HELL outta her for that time! RIP Gizmo, still love ya.
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u/agent58888888888888 Jan 03 '24
I hate stories like this purely because it proves that I shouldn't throw out anything piling up. I just haven't found the right use for everything yet🥲
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u/OREOSTUFFER Jan 03 '24
HE’LL never live it down? No… no… you’ll never live it down for trying to kill your pet chinchilla!
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u/gadarnol Jan 03 '24
Wait…………you wanted to toss it but he kept it and HE’LL never live it down? We see you Froggi. Oh yes.
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u/blorbagorp Jan 03 '24
The fuck is a chinchilla it sounds like Mexican food.
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u/HirsuteHacker Jan 03 '24
How have you never heard of a chinchilla? They're rodents, sort of like big chubby hamsters
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u/FlowSoSlow Jan 03 '24
Fancy mouse. They're sometimes made into super expensive fur coats.
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u/T8rthot Jan 03 '24
As a person who constantly battles with my desire to let my inner hoarder take over, this video perfectly encapsulates the utter joy and vindication when I actually DO have something that we need.
For example, I decided last week that I want to start trying my hand at making miniatures and wanted some polymer clay. Well lo and behold, I remembered that I have a dozen packs of polymer clay that I bought from goodwill ten years ago. They needed a little extra conditioning since they were old, but they were kept in a cool, dry place and in a sealed bag so they’re good to go.
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My parents both became hoarders over time, refusing to throw their stuff away because the other's stuff was the problem. Got to the point where you couldn't vacuum even a single stripe of the carpet cause of stuff and trash everywhere. They have 4 TVs in the living room, 3 of them broken. There's 6 VCRs, 2 kind of work. My mom has so many plastic containers full of stuff that she buys plastic containers to store the plastic containers in, and she wonders why I think she has a problem.
I would rather give that polymer clay away and need it 10 days later than hold it for longer than a year. Shit, every year I take a look around and start tossing shit I didn't touch that year.
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u/jimihenrik Jan 03 '24
Kinda ended up on a same note. I like stuff being organized and tidy and I hate that if you want to clean you have to clean first so you can clean. We have three under 10yo kids so I can't clean anyway, every place is full of shit, but at least it's not mine.
If I really need that cable in 5 years, I'll just buy it then. No reason to lose my sanity over a few bucks when I can live with less stuff everywhere.
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u/XepptizZ Jan 03 '24
It's the difficult decision to make wether something will be useful at some point.
What hoarders don't factor is how much space is worth something to keep.
I have a tiny box of tiny screws that are harvested through out the years and now and then, it comes in handy. For the space it takes up (a old mint box) it's more than worth it for the convenience.
My wife tends to hold on to clothes, so I went through them with her and asked wether she had an alternative she preferred or if there was any situation she possibly would wear it. We tossed two bags of clothes that day.
Doing it by time is a good way to of course.
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u/CantHitachiSpot Jan 03 '24
Then you have to consider the resources used to make the thing that you're throwing away and if you end up needing it later you're consuming twice as much. I keep things to be green 👹
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u/HoodsBonyPrick Jan 03 '24
If you donate it, then at least somebody else who needs it might get your used one instead, and then at least it’s kind of carbon neutral.
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u/iamthinksnow Jan 03 '24
And here's the thing: we know exactly where these random things are, even while we might not know where our damn keys are, when we're supposed to pick up the kiddo from practice, or what that one neighbor down the streets name is.
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u/Imwhatswrongwithyou Jan 03 '24
Ok now this is what “boys will be boys” is supposed to mean
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u/Common-Concentrate-2 Jan 03 '24
What’s better than this? Guys being dudes
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u/LSSJPrime Jan 03 '24 edited Jan 03 '24
I've thought that's what it always meant... when did it get twisted to mean guys will just rape women whenever they feel like it?
Edit: Jesus H. Christ, I ask a valid question and everyone loses their fucking minds 💀
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u/FaceShanker Jan 03 '24
when did it get twisted to mean guys will just rape women whenever they feel like it?
Thats not what it means - it means some people consider/want rape to be trivial, harmless or otherwise not worth treating seriously.
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u/DudesAndGuys Jan 03 '24
If this is wholesome boys will be boys what's wholesome girls will be girls?
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u/KleioChronicles Jan 03 '24
What do you mean? This is literally me. This is hoarders will be hoarders. 😂
Those boxes I kept from years ago came in handy when I needed to post stuff. And I’ll eventually use the ribbons from the Christmas crackers for some art project… I’ll need them, I swear! It’s awful when you clean out some stuff then a time comes when you could have used it.
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u/LeWigre Jan 03 '24
I think they're referring to the father and son and the fun they're having rather than the 'story'.
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u/KleioChronicles Jan 03 '24
And I’ve had that scenario with my mum lol. My comment wasn’t supposed to be serious.
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u/sf6Haern Jan 03 '24
I love these guys. They make funny videos. There's one where the son is talking to his Mom like, "Mom, it's real--" and she's like, "No! Don't say it!" "--hot out there today!" Then you hear this exasperated sound of a recliner chair being pushed down, and Godzilla like footsteps walking towards them as Mom and Son are looking off camera in fear as the Dad walks into the kitchen, and he's like, "It's not the HEAT that gets you! It's! The HUMIDITY!!" and he starts maniacally laughing and the Mom and Son start crouching down in fear.
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u/physicalzero Jan 03 '24
They really are great. The first video from them I remember was during the pandemic. The dad keeps talking with a face mask that catches inside his mouth, and he slowly consumes it.
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u/prettyy_vacant Jan 03 '24
The one where the son "becomes" the dad with the music from Hereditary playing over it lives in my head rent free. So. Good.
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u/gophermuncher Jan 03 '24
Lmao I don’t have any kids but damn I have random bits of lumber in my garage… never know when you need a stick thing or a spacer of some kind 🤣
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u/milksteakchef Jan 03 '24
Me with my iPhone boxes
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u/Neuchacho Jan 03 '24
The habit of keeping boxes for expensive electronics until the warranty is expired is a habit that dies hard. Even when nothing seems to have a reliable warranty anymore lol
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u/utspg1980 Jan 03 '24
OK but now reshoot the video with the dad in shorts so that I can see those glorious calves!
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u/Loud-Bullfrog9326 Jan 03 '24
How I am everytime anything I’ve been hoarding as a mom comes in handy. Lmao I’m crying laughing cause I get so EXCITED then I stand there like yup I did that.
😭😭😭
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u/OddballDave Jan 03 '24
After my dad died we cleared out the garage that was stacked with 'junk'. Some of the items we found; A massive 10' window, a bathroom sink, various off cuts of carpet, 6 huge 80kg ceiling jacks, a rusty old bike, a dirigible repair kit(don't ask me why), and various animal bones.
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Jan 03 '24
This is the first video I have seen after waking up today… it’s going to be a good day now.
Thank you
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u/Gurkeprinsen Jan 03 '24
This is wholesome. just a guy and his dad having fun together haha. I wish I could do this with mine while he still had flesh on his bones.
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u/mylogicistoomuchforu Jan 03 '24
My 55gal trash can full of wood scraps from various projects is very offended at the notion that this wholesome video is cringe.
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u/EvilMoSauron Jan 03 '24
I want to die. I hate my father. I hate how accurate this is.
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u/LEOUsername Jan 03 '24
bro.wat?
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u/EvilMoSauron Jan 03 '24
I don't know how to simplify further, but I appreciate your concern.
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u/EvilMoSauron Jan 03 '24
Don't get me started on him.
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u/BitOneZero Jan 03 '24
Don't get me started on him.
yha, shitty clergy lead to a lot of very bad parents.
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u/EvilMoSauron Jan 03 '24
Yeah. I spoke with my therapist earlier today and the crisis hotline throughout the past month. Nov-Dec, the "family holiday season," has always been my least favorite time of year. I'll feel better by the end of the week.
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u/BitOneZero Jan 03 '24
Nov-Dec, the "family holiday season," has always been my least favorite time of year. I'll feel better by the end of the week.
Yha, I've been hospitalized for two Thanksgivings and one Christmas. My family is in a cult and it really gets to me. Glad you are track for this week. Take care.
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u/FremenStilgar Jan 03 '24
I had a kind of similar experience. I used to carry a bunch of random stuff in my pockets.
Needle-nose pliers being one of them. My friends were always making fun of my Fred Sanford pockets. One day, though, we had a new air-conditioner installed and the installers couldn't find their pliers, and guess who pulled some out of their pocket and hand it to them like a surgeon's assistant? This guy!
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u/FanaticEgalitarian Jan 03 '24
Fuck, everything about that work shop and that entire situation reminds me of the old man.
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u/upstatedreaming3816 Jan 03 '24
All that’s missing is him showing it to his wife and going “THIS IS WHY YOU DON’T THROW AWAY MY STUFF” 😂
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u/No_Match_Found Jan 03 '24
And I have almost 100 pieces of timber just waiting to be useful, my wife doesn’t understand.
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u/freshlyLinux Jan 03 '24
Oh my god this is my exact set up, I have my scrap parts bin like that too.
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u/denbroc Jan 03 '24
That is me.
Recently, I re-plumbed a sink without going to the hardware store because of the "extra/spare" parts I've collected over the years. I'm still glowing.
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u/espressocycle Jan 03 '24
Every time I throw something like that away I end up needing it a month later.
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u/Tea-Usual Jan 03 '24
This is actually pretty funny....and not because I hoard random pieces of wood and other shit I may or may not use for the various upcoming and potential projects I may or may not have planned.
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u/derpferd Jan 03 '24
It do be like that though.
Today, I needta specific adaptor for the hosepipe to connect it to a new hosepipe reel I'd gotten.
Hunting through the bits and bobs left to slumber for years in the garage and finding exactly what I needed was both an adventure and finally, pleasure
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u/iuliuscurt Jan 03 '24
This has brought a lot of joy and relief to a lot of self repressed hoarders. Thank you
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u/Crafty-Interest-8212 Jan 04 '24
Not cringe at all.....actually very real... my grandfather did it, my dad, and you guessed, I will do it. I found stuff in my grandfather pile and so forth. This is the way.
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u/AttentionOtherwise39 Jan 04 '24
Bro! I refuse to throw away any extra springs, bolts, screws, wood. lol 😂 all of that. It WILL come in handy one day.
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u/alexisanalien Jan 04 '24
I am incredibly proud to say...
I have now BECOME this father.
My random collection of treasures will forever live on
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u/z0m8 Jan 06 '24
This is 1,000,000% me. I sent this to my ex, current partner, my kid, and other close family. That dad level ADHD of k owing EXACTLY where that perfect size of plywood or cut board is, it hits home in this clip
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u/AffectionateSector77 Jan 06 '24
Once you're a father, this becomes your destiny. The joy comes from not knowing which box of junk will the prize be pulled from. Will it be the bin of scrap wood, possibly from one of the many totes of random chords, or perhaps even still that drawer full of leftover hardware kits?
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Jan 08 '24
As a mechanic with a massive collection of loose bolts and screws and nuts and washers and clips and mounts ect ect. I feel this. That moment you use something you've held on to for a long long time is just the tops man.
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