Margaret Coleman (u/margaret377)

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Showerthought: I passed on a perfect old camera for a broken music box

At a yard sale in Tacoma, I had to pick between a working 1970s Polaroid for $30 or a tarnished brass music box for $5 that wouldn't play. Everyone there said to grab the camera, it was the smart choice. I went with the music box because the inside lid had a tiny, handwritten map. After a week of fiddling, I got it to play a tune I'd never heard. The map led to a geocache note from 1998 hidden in a local park. Has anyone else picked the weird, broken thing over the obvious good find and had it pay off?

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c/bookbinders•

margaret377•2mo ago

Pro tip: I finally figured out a cheap way to get clean, straight board shear cuts without the actual shear.

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c/baking-fails-and-wins•

margaret377•3mo ago

Confusing teaspoons for tablespoons made my cookies inedible.

Now I have a batch of rock-hard cookies that even the dog won't touch.

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c/butchers•

margaret377•3mo ago

Vent: The hype over fancy knife brands in shops makes no sense to me.

I've used the same basic Victorinox for years and it does the job just fine, no issues. Seeing guys drop big cash on designer blades feels like a waste when skill matters more. Am I crazy, or is this just for show?

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2mo ago

Counted 17,000 bricks laid on a single job in Tacoma and it hit me how much we actually move

Ever think about how much physical work goes into building stuff?

2mo ago

Working from a library in Denver made me rethink my whole office setup

Libraries for focus, home for calls. Mix it up.

3mo ago

I used to think the best way to find new music was through streaming radio, but a random CD I bought for 50 cents at a garage sale in Omaha changed that.

Found stuff in the weirdest places. People lose things, forget them. Then someone else gets a little piece of a story. Happens all the time if you pay attention.

3mo ago

Showerthought: My fridge's AI mistook a toddler drawing for a grocery list

Exactly, ben_lopez25, it's like the AI is just pattern-matching without any common sense. Makes you side-eye what it's saying about your grocery lists or notes too, if it can't tell a kid's drawing from modern art.

3mo ago

The way we used to learn this trade feels like a whole other world now

Remember when learning meant getting your hands dirty instead of just watching a screen? All this tech makes things faster, but it strips out the real talk and dumb luck that solved problems. Those random meetings at the supply store taught me fixes you won't find in any video. Building trust with a look across the stall can't happen through a text message. We're trading wisdom for convenience, and the trade feels poorer for it. Why are we so quick to give up the messy, human parts that actually made us good at this?