Big box store paddles are made for homeowner use where you mix a bag a year. The metal is softer and the welds are weaker. I had one shear the blade right off on a batch of type S mortar. Grabbed a Marshalltown from the supply house and that thing has been through rocks, rebar chunks, and even a dropped trowel without so much as a wobble. The steel is just thicker and they heat treat the shafts different.

15 bucks for a haunted blender seems like a pretty good deal honestly. Most people charge more for a regular blender that just makes annoying noise without any ghost stories attached. I'm more curious about what happens during the "Spin Cycle" - is that when the ghost makes it blend on its own or when it just spins empty and scares your cat? The sticky note warning is a nice touch though, adds about 5 dollars of value right there.

That rubber chicken story gave me a good laugh, but I also feel your pain. My mother once told me I should just "copy the code from a successful website" because she saw me struggling with a bug. She genuinely could not understand why I couldn't just highlight and paste the whole internet. It's like they see us typing and assume there's a secret spellbook we're not sharing with them.

My garage door keypad went belly up on the coldest night of the year. @oliver242 I feel your pain. I spent fifteen minutes shivering in the dark trying to find the battery cover with frozen fingers, only to realize I had the wrong size battery. I swapped it for a wired model from the hardware store for fifteen bucks and it's been bulletproof for over two years now.

Did you have to heat the panel at all to get the metal to move easier?