@ 3:23 The chainlink fence headboard would be dope for a room decked out in glow-in-the-dark graffiti on dark walls, black lights, skateboard decor, and a street art-themed room. Maybe add a few padlocks to the headboard.
no no lexi, the paint one is literally the only time where you can confidently say that you, as a blind person, can paint that wall better than whoever painted those walls
The barrel bassinet would be fine. Babies small enough for bassinets arent even able to sit up yet. It's a cute decorative piece too, if you have that style in other things. And a kitty cat would love it.
That "walking the plank" one reminds me of gathering a bunch of rocks where rocks can be gathered and painting them in phosphorescent neon colors. You could have a family of "glow in the dark" pet rocks.
Oh my goodness, you have awoken a memory from my childhood, in the 80s (in the UK). There was this trend for a while of tourist spots selling these ornaments where a bunch of small stones where glued on top of a slightly larger rock as if they were a group of people gathered for a group photo or something. The stones were often painted in bright colours with eyes (and very occasionally mouths but usually just the eyes) and there was often a little signpost made out of a lolly stick or a little label on the rock that said 'rock concert' on it, although some said something else, possibly the name of the tourist place you bought it, while others didn't say anything at all. I thought those things were so funny when I was a kid but I hadn't thought about them in at least a couple of decades 😂
@@gabeangel8104 They had those when I was little, when we toured the Western US. When we made it to Yellowstone National Park we went into the tourist shop to look around whilst my dad got 'comfortable' in the loo... so sorry, Yellowstone. Next to the cashier was a little stand with these rocks all stood up and glued onto either another longer flat rock, or a piece of redwood, or something like that. Some had googly eyes, & some had painted ones, and some had questionable looking mouths painted on them. Then they'd have a scene setup around them, with a little sign out of toothpicks or lolly sticks or whatever, reading "yellow- STONE" My dad appreciated that kind of humor. Unfortunately for him, he wasn't allowed in the gift shop due to "vandalizing the restrooms", lol! I told him not to eat that burrito!
@@tiggerdcat lol your poor dad 😂 It's always interesting to hear when things have caught on internationally like that. I wonder if any other countries had them and where they actually originated.
@@gabeangel8104 He's wrecked many a restroom, privy, loo, outhouse, bathroom, etc. If it had a toilet (or a hole in the ground) he ruined it for others! Every port, in just about every country. You know how some people like to say "I've dipped my toes in the waters of every European country"? My dad dipped his cheeks and the waters were rather contained. He was a foul man. He's probably down there in Hell ruining it for Satan! The devil and God are arguing about who should take him, meanwhile, in Purgatory... "Eeeew, who clogged this one, too?!" This is supposed to be Purgatory, not Hell!"
13:02 I think that red thermos looking thing is a portable speaker... That silver bag looks like a battery bank held together by duct tape and it should be CAREFULLY removed from the home and placed EQUALLY CAREFULLY inside a smelting furnace pot before it bursts into unquenchable flame... 😄😁😆😅😂🤣
14:39 I mean, I've done something in a similar vein. I'm diabetic, and for an art project I made a sculpture out of a bunch of my used diabetes supplies like syringes, test strip bottles, and infusion site cables. I did make sure to remove any hazards on them like the sharp pointy bits beforehand though
I was also thinking it would be a pretty cool way to reclaim the power with a medical condition. My partner has recently been diagnosed with diabetes and has said she wants to use the empty containers from her tests strips in her crafting and I would definitely consider using stuff from my medical conditions and also my testosterone shots to craft with. I've seen some people do this very effectively in the past, even in professional art galleries. It's a very typical 'artist does thing to make a statement and/or make a personal emotional journey' kind of thing to be honest and definitely has the potential to be very powerful when done well
When Lexi asked "Lexiwife, can I have my flamethrower back?" it would have been funny AF if we could hear her shout back "NO!" and Lexi would be like "aaw, please? Look at this!" and then her wife like "... Okay but just this one time!" 🤣
13:00 captions for screen reader: English (Monarchy 🇬🇧): "A HP laptop powered from offscreen is powering a ducttape powerbank (blimey), powering a bluetooth speaker, powering another powerbank (with less obvious hazards), powering a (potentially pre-android) LG phone with a home button and a mini pc or steam machine, something of the sort." English (🦅🇺🇸Capatalist🇺🇸🦅): "a clusterfuck."
That plank thing is a 3 in one deal. First you say you’re walking the plank. They laugh because of the joke and whenever you don’t have an excuse you can say you’re going to walk the plank
@6:46; we witness the horrors left by a foam roller, and lack of using a tinted primer to assist with the drastic colour change. Pro Tips: Never use a foam roller, and white, and lighter colours hide all other colours best. Dark, bold or vibrant colours are translucent, requiring multiple coats to build up to chosen colour; starting with an appropriately tinted primer, one can significantly reduce the colour building coats. Using a nap roller would eliminate the coat "ghosting" seen in video.
The van with the ac coming out...in so cal some dude had set up his van with an electrical generator...he uses it for his tv, game console he has inside the van and an ac
the opel one its because either water is leaking in thru the window seal/glue or because the window itself is falling off, and it looks like europe where these opels arent thaaaaaaaaaaat worth fixing
I bought a pew from my church growing up, cos my dad would always say "pull up a pew" when people would come over. Unfortunately I couldn't bring it with me when I moved.
I live down in Tacoma and also don't see an issue with the van. There are people in Seattle paying 2600/mo rent that don't have AC and aren't allowed to use a window unit (portables only).
12:32 I remember my aunt and uncle having one of those lamps back in the early 2000's, of course theirs worked fine and wasn't wired to the wall like OPs scampa
19:11 What did that poor car do to deserve that?! I have seen halves of cars being used as trailers before, but no respect was shown here 😔 Then again that Volkswagen pickup did not look that bad...
all of the beeping starting at like 9:30 freaked my overly anxious dog out so much that she spent at least a good 5 minutes trying to get up into my lap on my spiny chair. she is a large golden retriever and could barely fit
the wheel covers are not that bad, the bad one is the person who thought of gluing crystals to the middle of the steering wheel, where the airbag comes out. I think it was so it could radiate positive energy while driving, what it will do is give you instant fragmental death upon collision.
6:37 we gave our's one when the porch fell beneath my dad's feet. We aren't going to have a porch till at least the end of April, meaning no access to the back yard, meaning all our plants are screwed
I gotta say, i kinda dig the PVC furniture. I'd furnish an entire room like that, especially if it's a workshop type of room and the furniture proves to be stable enough
I know a guy who now owns a VW conversion just like the here, hell it might be the same guy, since it's so close to where I am. Years ago it was at the MAACO the Hertz I worked at used. Dude was super chill. I keep running into him and every time the finish on that thing gets better and better. First it looked like the image, then it was well matched with paint, and fitment, and then the bed was finished and lined. Very cool.
Lexi calling herself undomesticated is hilarious to me because it sounds like she’s calling herself a wild animal that’s hiding in the woods or sea somewhere and doesn’t know about human kitchen storage
3:35 You can't get a Driver's License, but what about your Wife? And as far as I know, you don't need a License to be able to own a vehicle, just to drive it... 😄😁😆😅😂🤣
14:58 This is Legal(ish) if the creator is a Diabetic and those are the needles they used to inject Insulin... Personally, I think this is a great way to safely dispose of sharps waste... Encase all the biologically contaminated long sharp pointy bits in a big block of plastic... And yes, the leg is crooked... It REALLY should be fixed... Unless it was made crooked on purpose just to drive everyone with OCD absolutely Bonkers the moment they see it... I'm Cruel enough that I'd have made this like that... Just to confirm who is OCD and who isn't...I just watch to see who's head explodes when they see the table... 😄😁😆😅😂🤣
The "walking the plank" pic. I saw someone pulling a board behind them at a renfaire a few years back and was wondering about it. This makes sense now.
13:18 so, I seem to have fallen down a youtube rabbit hole recently of watching video of people making their own home made wheelchairs or doing DIY projects to turn manual wheelchairs into electric ones, with various levels of success and various levels of of how good or tacky the finished item looks. The algorithm keeps feeding me more and more of these videos and, honestly, it's fascinating. This might be labeled just as a 'chair' in the advert but I've seen pretty much the same thing, just with a little more padding, being called a wheelchair. Shopping carts are renowned for not being easy to push so I'm not convinced it's the best candidate for turning into a wheelchair, but if it's all someone has to work with, that's pretty nicely exicuted to be honest. I've seen a lot worse. My partner and I both have disabilities. I am lucky enough to have a very helpful doctor and the kind of condition that the health service will accept the need for medical equipment for (although I have the experience of living the first 30 years of my life without that support before my genetic condition was diagnosed). We have been struggling for many years to get my partner the support she needs and have been left a lot more unsupported, partly because she doesn't have diagnosis they are as willing to take seriously. We've struggled on the very limited finances of 2 people too disabled to work, to find a way to get a wheelchair that suits her needs on our very limited budget, and the rest of the things she needs, and all the additional things that I need (because only a fairly standard electric wheelchair and adjustable bed and a few household adaptions are provided, the rest is still my problem to sort out), and I have a lot of experience of finding solutions to not being able to do things from all the years when I didn't have support. It's very much given me an attitude that bodging and/or crafting home made solutions for things can often be just as effective (if not more so sometimes) as a bought product. Heck, when you get support from an occupational therapist (someone who helps an either temporary or permanently disabled person to learn ways to do tasks and adaptations to use so they can be as independent as possible and do as many of the things that are important to them as possible) half of the adaptions they do will be a bodge rather than a ready made product, or even if they use a product they will still often bodge it a bit to suit the individual client! Disability equipment is hella expensive, and it's often hard or impossible to find something that exactly solves your exact need as every disability is slightly different anyway. I bodge a lot of things and if I had the skills (and the physical ability) to do so, I'd probably be tempted to try my hand at making a wheelchair if it ment my partner could get around better than what she has at the moment allows her to do!
Hearing Lexi refer to her wife as "Lexi's wife" has such chaotic energy for some reason
Honestly I give credit to the people who make these interesting objects. They may be death traps but at least it's creative.
They put the Fun in Funeral
Creative ways to die that is....
Yup even the microwave on the wall? WATER ON THE HILL!
(I’m jk)
Haha
@ 3:23 The chainlink fence headboard would be dope for a room decked out in glow-in-the-dark graffiti on dark walls, black lights, skateboard decor, and a street art-themed room. Maybe add a few padlocks to the headboard.
And a pair of handcuffs locked to the headboard... no? I heard it's quite fashionable.
@@tiggerdcat Yeah, all I could think was that it was missing handcuffs and/or rope.
no no lexi, the paint one is literally the only time where you can confidently say that you, as a blind person, can paint that wall better than whoever painted those walls
The barrel bassinet would be fine. Babies small enough for bassinets arent even able to sit up yet. It's a cute decorative piece too, if you have that style in other things. And a kitty cat would love it.
Honestly, if I could find a big enough barrel, I’d scale up and make that my actual bed, get some pirate vibes in my room.
That "walking the plank" one reminds me of gathering a bunch of rocks where rocks can be gathered and painting them in phosphorescent neon colors. You could have a family of "glow in the dark" pet rocks.
Oh my goodness, you have awoken a memory from my childhood, in the 80s (in the UK). There was this trend for a while of tourist spots selling these ornaments where a bunch of small stones where glued on top of a slightly larger rock as if they were a group of people gathered for a group photo or something.
The stones were often painted in bright colours with eyes (and very occasionally mouths but usually just the eyes) and there was often a little signpost made out of a lolly stick or a little label on the rock that said 'rock concert' on it, although some said something else, possibly the name of the tourist place you bought it, while others didn't say anything at all.
I thought those things were so funny when I was a kid but I hadn't thought about them in at least a couple of decades 😂
that also did get marie curie into a lead coffin though so, user beware.
@@gabeangel8104
They had those when I was little, when we toured the Western US. When we made it to Yellowstone National Park we went into the tourist shop to look around whilst my dad got 'comfortable' in the loo... so sorry, Yellowstone. Next to the cashier was a little stand with these rocks all stood up and glued onto either another longer flat rock, or a piece of redwood, or something like that. Some had googly eyes, & some had painted ones, and some had questionable looking mouths painted on them. Then they'd have a scene setup around them, with a little sign out of toothpicks or lolly sticks or whatever, reading "yellow- STONE" My dad appreciated that kind of humor. Unfortunately for him, he wasn't allowed in the gift shop due to "vandalizing the restrooms", lol! I told him not to eat that burrito!
@@tiggerdcat lol your poor dad 😂
It's always interesting to hear when things have caught on internationally like that. I wonder if any other countries had them and where they actually originated.
@@gabeangel8104
He's wrecked many a restroom, privy, loo, outhouse, bathroom, etc. If it had a toilet (or a hole in the ground) he ruined it for others! Every port, in just about every country. You know how some people like to say "I've dipped my toes in the waters of every European country"? My dad dipped his cheeks and the waters were rather contained. He was a foul man. He's probably down there in Hell ruining it for Satan! The devil and God are arguing about who should take him, meanwhile, in Purgatory...
"Eeeew, who clogged this one, too?!" This is supposed to be Purgatory, not Hell!"
Microwave in the wall?
FIRE IN THE HOLE
Geometry dash reference
this ant geometry dash
@@lelandbacon9573ant plays geometry dash at 3am, GONE WRONG!?!!!!!!😱😱😱
When the Pop isn't so Secret
IS THAT A MOTHERFUCKING GEOMETRY DASH REFERENCE?
13:02 I think that red thermos looking thing is a portable speaker...
That silver bag looks like a battery bank held together by duct tape and it should be CAREFULLY removed from the home and placed EQUALLY CAREFULLY inside a smelting furnace pot before it bursts into unquenchable flame...
😄😁😆😅😂🤣
14:39 I mean, I've done something in a similar vein. I'm diabetic, and for an art project I made a sculpture out of a bunch of my used diabetes supplies like syringes, test strip bottles, and infusion site cables. I did make sure to remove any hazards on them like the sharp pointy bits beforehand though
I was also thinking it would be a pretty cool way to reclaim the power with a medical condition. My partner has recently been diagnosed with diabetes and has said she wants to use the empty containers from her tests strips in her crafting and I would definitely consider using stuff from my medical conditions and also my testosterone shots to craft with.
I've seen some people do this very effectively in the past, even in professional art galleries. It's a very typical 'artist does thing to make a statement and/or make a personal emotional journey' kind of thing to be honest and definitely has the potential to be very powerful when done well
I KNEW THIS ONE WOULD BE LEXI!!!
Being judged by the appreciator of DIY stuff is ironic
5:58 In an attempt to raise their home, they razed their home.
Damn near to the ground!
"It's like Sir Topham Hat was trans" is a sentence I never expected to hear in my lifetime
Who is sir topham hat?
The Fat Controller from Thomas the Tank Engine
@@quarkmolotov1049 google Thomas the Tank Engine
Just because it works, doesn't mean we should use it.
If it works ! don't fix it
your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should.
Truth
3:46 "i would buy that"
3:56 "now it's not funny anymore"
That Volkswagen pickup is a kit car! I think it's made by a company called Smythe. It's called the Beetle Ute.
Lexi,I love you all the more for knowing his name is Sir Topham Hat, but your joke is actually spot on!
When Lexi asked "Lexiwife, can I have my flamethrower back?" it would have been funny AF if we could hear her shout back "NO!" and Lexi would be like "aaw, please? Look at this!" and then her wife like "... Okay but just this one time!" 🤣
No. Should have just stopped at no. Just no.
"Hyello comrade, your banana book safe.."
We make our Larp swords out of PVC pipe and ducttape, it's a rather grand material.
Don't diss the plank walker. People probably thought buying a pet rock was stupid too, yet that made so much money.
It was a celica, and the trunk is actually surprisingly roomy (it's a hatchback). Still weird AF.
10:01 This genuinely looks like a taxidermy Jar Jar Binks
13:00 captions for screen reader:
English (Monarchy 🇬🇧): "A HP laptop powered from offscreen is powering a ducttape powerbank (blimey), powering a bluetooth speaker, powering another powerbank (with less obvious hazards), powering a (potentially pre-android) LG phone with a home button and a mini pc or steam machine, something of the sort."
English (🦅🇺🇸Capatalist🇺🇸🦅): "a clusterfuck."
@TheLexiKitty, nice to see you still doing EmKay videos, I miss your unique brand of loveable humor
USB SBAGEDDDI!!
That pumpkin had minecraft flower energy
The worst steering wheel decoration I've seen is the one where a lady just glued a bunch of rocks to it
That plank thing is a 3 in one deal. First you say you’re walking the plank. They laugh because of the joke and whenever you don’t have an excuse you can say you’re going to walk the plank
@6:46; we witness the horrors left by a foam roller, and lack of using a tinted primer to assist with the drastic colour change.
Pro Tips: Never use a foam roller, and white, and lighter colours hide all other colours best. Dark, bold or vibrant colours are translucent, requiring multiple coats to build up to chosen colour; starting with an appropriately tinted primer, one can significantly reduce the colour building coats. Using a nap roller would eliminate the coat "ghosting" seen in video.
The van with the ac coming out...in so cal some dude had set up his van with an electrical generator...he uses it for his tv, game console he has inside the van and an ac
the opel one its because either water is leaking in thru the window seal/glue or because the window itself is falling off, and it looks like europe where these opels arent thaaaaaaaaaaat worth fixing
11:15 But is the door made out of chairs? These are the questions that need answers! O-O
1:23
Yes, thats a selling feature;
Built-in fuse. 😁
The VW beetle is a kit by Smyth. They make them for several cars.
1:23 maybe that's the point. The key ring acts as a fuse
13:05 Don't have enough wall plugs, do this.
My house burned down...
12:29 octopussy
is this really a plush bunny inside of the barrel cradle? i would have mistaken it for a sleeping lamb.
2:23 i think that is the Corbett cardinals.
Don't be hasty, I could still use your Burger King money.
I bought a pew from my church growing up, cos my dad would always say "pull up a pew" when people would come over.
Unfortunately I couldn't bring it with me when I moved.
I love Lexi so much!! She just makes my whole day
WHY DOES THE FIRE ALARM BEEPING SOUND LIKE IT’S COMING FROM THE OPPOSITE CORNER OF MY ROOM FROM THE TV?? 😭
I live down in Tacoma and also don't see an issue with the van. There are people in Seattle paying 2600/mo rent that don't have AC and aren't allowed to use a window unit (portables only).
12:32 I remember my aunt and uncle having one of those lamps back in the early 2000's, of course theirs worked fine and wasn't wired to the wall like OPs scampa
17:40 I laughed at Lexi’s comment. It’s so accurate.
Yeah, she INSTANTLY had the perfect description and I'm deeply impressed...
That microwave is.... its something
MICROWAVE
19:11 What did that poor car do to deserve that?!
I have seen halves of cars being used as trailers before, but no respect was shown here 😔
Then again that Volkswagen pickup did not look that bad...
11:03 seen this in Pennsylvania. Both on a van and sticking out the side of a clapped out late 80’s/early 90’s Buick. No generator though.
There’s a guy in my walls so I installed microwave into my wall to annoy him with the noise
Those birds are the Cardinals, a sports team from New Jersey.
all of the beeping starting at like 9:30 freaked my overly anxious dog out so much that she spent at least a good 5 minutes trying to get up into my lap on my spiny chair. she is a large golden retriever and could barely fit
19:10 A Celica died for this...
The most hated Celica, yet still.
The microwave in the wall is to stop Gordon Ramsey, throwing it out the window.
Ture
Chef mike will be rememberd
16:31 I'd wire in red LED's behind the eye holes and walk around at night on Halloween...
😄😁😆😅😂🤣
the fact that he called a speaker a thermos made me laugh so hard
5:54 I dunno all I hear is explosive diarrhea
We all must strive to achieve the level of brilliance as Scampa
As the scampa's octopus lamp OP, I disagree, lmfaooo.
16:54 OMG, my parent's had a seashell mirror in their apartment from when I was born, they took the mirror and it broke a few years later
10:00 that camera case looks like it was made by Ed Gein...
r/DiWHY is just chaos.
the wheel covers are not that bad, the bad one is the person who thought of gluing crystals to the middle of the steering wheel, where the airbag comes out. I think it was so it could radiate positive energy while driving, what it will do is give you instant fragmental death upon collision.
Yay Lexi! We don't get enough Lexi
And that's how your house loses value
I see you every video I look forward to seeing your fed back every time now 😀
@@Rose_Valleys Then hey again. y'know, at first it was weird having people say "I see you everywhere" or stuff like that, now it just natural.
HELLO BRYCE
YOOOO
@@alice_weirddom hey Alice
6:37 we gave our's one when the porch fell beneath my dad's feet. We aren't going to have a porch till at least the end of April, meaning no access to the back yard, meaning all our plants are screwed
I gotta say, i kinda dig the PVC furniture. I'd furnish an entire room like that, especially if it's a workshop type of room and the furniture proves to be stable enough
I know a guy who now owns a VW conversion just like the here, hell it might be the same guy, since it's so close to where I am. Years ago it was at the MAACO the Hertz I worked at used. Dude was super chill. I keep running into him and every time the finish on that thing gets better and better. First it looked like the image, then it was well matched with paint, and fitment, and then the bed was finished and lined. Very cool.
"It's like if Sir Toppam Hat was trans" is the sentence of all time (and also /r/BrandNewSentence material)
Giving lexi an aneurysm is my favorite form of emkay content.
9:56 I’m glad I have hard wired smoke detectors and alarms
Awesome vid thx! ❤ Also will we get funny reaction shots from beatyful Lexi too? Love ya 😊
15:48 I think you said “switch bot” and the editor thought you said “switch box.”
Microwave on the wall
WATER ON THE HILL!
Steering wheel covers are also really nice because they make it not cold. My mom has Raynaud's so her hands get really cold.
12:50 I'm fairly sure that gray thing is a bunch of recharchable D batteries, wired into a batter pack, and wrapped in duct tape... 😱
the typewriter with teeth is for chewing out books
I need Lex today.
12:28 I choked on my own spit at this
fire in the hole, water on the hill, rock on the ground, microwave in the wall.
day ??? of asking the lexi wife to return lexi’s diy flamethrower so they can be properly prepared for the inevitable zombie outbreak
3:33 thats actually a kit you can buy for a early 00s beetle
1:40 that made me want to vomit.
16:30 a pair of pants made out of clancers from Mischief Makers
10:21 yeah nikon has money, since they make the machines to make microchips and flat panel displays
17:45 as a Thomas fan, it does indeed look like a trans sir Toppham hat who lost aot of weight
Lexi calling herself undomesticated is hilarious to me because it sounds like she’s calling herself a wild animal that’s hiding in the woods or sea somewhere and doesn’t know about human kitchen storage
3:35 You can't get a Driver's License, but what about your Wife?
And as far as I know, you don't need a License to be able to own a vehicle, just to drive it...
😄😁😆😅😂🤣
14:58 This is Legal(ish) if the creator is a Diabetic and those are the needles they used to inject Insulin...
Personally, I think this is a great way to safely dispose of sharps waste...
Encase all the biologically contaminated long sharp pointy bits in a big block of plastic...
And yes, the leg is crooked...
It REALLY should be fixed...
Unless it was made crooked on purpose just to drive everyone with OCD absolutely Bonkers the moment they see it...
I'm Cruel enough that I'd have made this like that...
Just to confirm who is OCD and who isn't...I just watch to see who's head explodes when they see the table...
😄😁😆😅😂🤣
🎶 dumb ways to die🎶
12:03 no freaking way that's one of my best friend's posts!
If lexi says she'll pay money for a typewriter that chews the paper, I say that I'll build a paper chewing typewriter if I get paid money
The "walking the plank" pic. I saw someone pulling a board behind them at a renfaire a few years back and was wondering about it. This makes sense now.
Breathes in chat
18:36 life size lego chairs lmao
That guy wood bark about selling a plank to walk.
Fun fact, that bed might have been replaced from a different car, but that is actually a factory option for the Volkswagen beetle
1:14 That's not a keyring, that's an improvised fuse!
13:18 so, I seem to have fallen down a youtube rabbit hole recently of watching video of people making their own home made wheelchairs or doing DIY projects to turn manual wheelchairs into electric ones, with various levels of success and various levels of of how good or tacky the finished item looks. The algorithm keeps feeding me more and more of these videos and, honestly, it's fascinating.
This might be labeled just as a 'chair' in the advert but I've seen pretty much the same thing, just with a little more padding, being called a wheelchair. Shopping carts are renowned for not being easy to push so I'm not convinced it's the best candidate for turning into a wheelchair, but if it's all someone has to work with, that's pretty nicely exicuted to be honest. I've seen a lot worse.
My partner and I both have disabilities. I am lucky enough to have a very helpful doctor and the kind of condition that the health service will accept the need for medical equipment for (although I have the experience of living the first 30 years of my life without that support before my genetic condition was diagnosed). We have been struggling for many years to get my partner the support she needs and have been left a lot more unsupported, partly because she doesn't have diagnosis they are as willing to take seriously.
We've struggled on the very limited finances of 2 people too disabled to work, to find a way to get a wheelchair that suits her needs on our very limited budget, and the rest of the things she needs, and all the additional things that I need (because only a fairly standard electric wheelchair and adjustable bed and a few household adaptions are provided, the rest is still my problem to sort out), and I have a lot of experience of finding solutions to not being able to do things from all the years when I didn't have support. It's very much given me an attitude that bodging and/or crafting home made solutions for things can often be just as effective (if not more so sometimes) as a bought product.
Heck, when you get support from an occupational therapist (someone who helps an either temporary or permanently disabled person to learn ways to do tasks and adaptations to use so they can be as independent as possible and do as many of the things that are important to them as possible) half of the adaptions they do will be a bodge rather than a ready made product, or even if they use a product they will still often bodge it a bit to suit the individual client!
Disability equipment is hella expensive, and it's often hard or impossible to find something that exactly solves your exact need as every disability is slightly different anyway. I bodge a lot of things and if I had the skills (and the physical ability) to do so, I'd probably be tempted to try my hand at making a wheelchair if it ment my partner could get around better than what she has at the moment allows her to do!
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emkay: Meekrowevé!
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One of my first babysitters has an in-wall microwave also, but I'm pretty sure it didn't jut through the wall like that