Uncle’s car got stolen. He called the police, pointed at the other car in the yard and said, “that’s my parts car, it looks just like that but it has a 2x4 for a front bumper”. It was found the next day.
Every year b4 vacation my dad would take 3 of 5 vehicles he kept in the backyard and make one highway worthy vehicle. We made 22 hours round-trip every time np. I thought everyone did this til I was in my early 30's and my new husband rented a car😁
Southern toolbox: 1 flat-head, 1 phillips-head, 1 hammer, a roll of Duck tape, a can of WD40, and a hodge podge of nails and screws rolling around at the bottom, none of which are the same size.
Pretty close except for me change the 1 flat and 1 phillips to half a dozen flat and no phillips, that is until I run into that rare slotted screw and check the tool box to discover that all my flat head screw drivers have miraculously turned into phillips.
Well for me and my dad it’s hours upon hours in Lowe’s. The reason is that Home Depot is over an hour away. And no twelve trips neither. When you live in the country, AKA 30+ minutes from Lowe’s, you can’t keep making trips. You’d better get what ya need when ya go.
On an old TV show called The Adventures of Pete and Pete, a butchered wood project was once referred to as "Dutch Modern." It didn't save the project, but the attempt was admirable.
Well, my late step-grandfather was a carpenter. He didn't butcher the job, he butchered his fingers. Cut I think half of two fingers off before he decided to retire! 😂🤣
I'm an artistic genius. I can do literally every kind of arts and crafts, furniture refinishing, decorative painting. I taught myself upholstery and recovered a button tufted Victorian style living-room suite. But put a wood saw in my hands and I'm a danger to humanity.
@@samiam619 , we put them up on a 4x4 and we have a pic of one of them standing on the platform, at the top of the 4x4, eating birdseed between it’s feet. So, yes, they are all “low enough” for the bears to claim them. 😊
In Industrial Arts(NEVER call it shop class in front of Mr Earle)I was shop foreman which got me an A every semester & excused from doing a project, though I did build a jewelry box that was raffled off(I won it for Mom) Nowadays? There's a cabinet that I helped build for my volunteer fire department that the doors are not cut evenly since we didn't have a fence on the table saw & I tried to free hand the cut. "Well,Cap, the gap is for extra ventilation.Yeah, that's it." The cabinet is still in service 15 years later.
Good stuff! It comes in handy! But as usual it is the woman who makes it all work though. We men always say " why do it today when there is a ball game on somewhere" lol
Marry a southern DIY’er & it really helps when there is an electrician in the family lol 😂 In fact, I married into an entire family of Southern DIY’ers!!
I got a two year degree in welding and another one in metallurgy, then worked as a welder. I have multiple certifications and licenses. After years of working my way through school and degrees I became a welding and materials areospace engineer. I actually can weld two Coke cans together. Some of the scariest words I ever hear are "Oh, I know a bit of welding or brazing or soldering ..." and "Oh, I know how to weld! It's easy!", usually from somebody with an old Sears Mig welder. The guy with the little propane torch cracked me up.
I planted a bunch of bulbs this spring - even sprinkled the area with the recommended varmint repellent. A week later, those fuzzy little bastards had dug up every last one. I’m tempted to make one of those squirrel catapult traps you see here on TH-cam. That’s a DIY project I’d be motivated to build correctly.
My biggest advantage to any home improvement project is my dear wife, she doesn't know how to build things but can really instruct me on how to do the work.
Well, I've found out, I ain't buying cheap drill bits from HF ever again! Bought a bunch... used one 1 time, drilling through cheap plywood... And the bit was already wore out after just a few minutes! I'ma go to Lowe's, pay up a little more and get good bits from now on!
@@free22 Yeah, have to agree. Nearest town to me has a Harbor Freight, a Southern State, a Tractor Supply, a Lowes, and a couple of smaller lumber yards/tool stores, and Harbor Freight by far has the junkiest equipment.
Lol, I was waiting for the "It should only take about an hour!" that is the only time estimate ever given for any DIY project. To which, I might add, I automatically add 2 - 3 hours for a more realistic estimate. And depending on the project sometimes I might just throw in the whole day.
I love DIY projects. It's the perfect excuse to buy new power tools! I've never lived anywhere but California, but I think I might be Southern at heart. :)
0:12 This guy is my spirit animal. Everything he says is exactly what I do and how I describe things. I love and am learning to work on my car and my mom always tells me to go to the mechanic. I tell her how much money I am saving by doing it myself, but don't tell her how much I spent in tools haha
Greetings, I'm from Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada. I'd just like to say how much I've been enjoying your videos. Love the sense of humour. Everyone needs to have a good laugh, keeps the days brighter. Thank you for the laughter.
@@lorenstribling6096 least there's no sand flies by you, those are the worst and they're more useless than mosquitos and just fly into you or anything you're holding. Had them fly into my coffee before 🤮
I mean...I use a blowtorch to get rid of spider webs around the house. I've almost set the house on fire more times doing something legitimate than killing spiders!
I only get to play with the blow torch once a year when I go camping with my friends (because I’m not allowed to buy myself a blow torch). That’s always a fun weekend.
I ain't driving an hour and 20 minutes just to eat somewhere. I don't have time, and my SUV gets 20 mpg tops, so that's a no-go. Gotta be some other legit reason for me to go to Little Rock for me to stop by the Golden Corral.
In college, a couple of my friends were making a dog house, and their measurements were off because they assumed 2x4s were 2" by 4". I had to say, "Boys, let me teach you about the world of nominal sizing."
When we do a project at home we measure the difficulty by the number of trips to Lowes it takes to get it done. Running a water line connecting to an existing line would be a minimum of three trips. Trip one. Get the stuff you thought you needed Trip two. Get the stuff you broke while twisting the end of the existing water line Trip three. Get the other stuff you didn’t get because underestimated what you needed to begin with. Trip four. Get the stuff to expand the original project because saw the original project was so good that she wanted the water line run to another flower bed.
Oh, I’m a Midwest northern guy, I sent my wife to her mom’s for the weekend to renovate the bedroom. 8 months later it got done, so proud my wife found a handy contractor to finish it. I found a lot of errors, yeah I think they were his. My story and sticking to it....
Y’all, I’m old enough to remember when Lowe’s and Home Depot were real hardware stores instead of a decorative design store that happened to sell hardware products.
Thankfully, we still have a great, locally owned lumber yard and hardware store here. And they know *everything*. We love 'em, they even give you little bags of popcorn and will come look for you if you get lost.
The smell of sawdust and lumber, paint and varnish and the sounds of circular saws and hammering always reminds me of my dad. He was always building or working on something. Miss him terribly.
@@annap7678 I don't really know. My husband is not handy at all. She does like to do art with wood. She has some pieces she uses like canvas. But as an artist, she has " to be in the mood" 🤣. She's 12 now, no more tutu's but she still dabbles in wood.
Just don't try to burn the treated ones! I know from experience, you DON'T PUT NO KIND OF TREATED LUMBER IN A FIREPLACE OR WOOD STOVE! Did that 1 time when I was a boy, the fumes about ran all 5 of us out the house!
The fence thing to not see your neighbors yard is so true lol ours fell down last spring and while we have a lot of stuff that needs to get done that got a vip ticket for the top 😂
Dadgu.... Dadgum squirrels ! ? - oh it's on now yard boy.... we gonna heave anything and everything at 'cha, we gonna dip into those other feeders, we gonna breed like the second coming, all us sit and stare into yer windows. You messed with the wrong !! squirrel !
Cousin of a friend owned a small town antique store and lived upstairs. One Sunday afternoon he decided that he wanted a sky light. He was sure that he could put it in because he watched Bob Villa. He cut the whole and a sudden storm flooded the place. He ended up running up and down the stairs with buckets like Mickey Mouse in the Sorcerer's Apprentice. 😰
@@shadowdawg04 You mean in place of 2x4s in the walls? Do you know what those things cost - the big ones? There's a guy on TH-cam who tours us around the mobile homes he sells, and they cost as much as a house.
"Yes, I need 3 bird feeders. I need one for the hummingbirds..." One HAS to be for the squirrels. "...and one for those dang squirrels." lol. Or in my uncle's case, one for the bears. Feeding birds is a real hassle for him.
I don't know this Southern stuff, but the Southern stuff my grandmother did DIY... How many hours it takes to dry the green beans on the sheet in the front yard. How to string the green beans doing it yourself. How many threads to string the strung dried green beans on the front wall outside the front of the house. How to save money on building a pool? Go swimming in a pond. Home Depot and Lowes sponsor Nascar. Ten penny nails. Who needs a flower bed when you need to grow maters. Tobacco gets hung up in the tobacco barn your great-great grandfather built. What kind of hammer? Clawhead, ballpeen? If you are Southern, you know hammers are not just hammers. Never make a sigogglin' wall. You only need one color paint ever. These people sound like Midwesterners. You built a pool? What do you need a pool for when you need to keep the chickens fed and make that chicken pen DIY. You never say the term DIY because it is default you are going to DIY.
All I do is look the project up in the woodworking magazine and if there's more than two hands in it, I call the handyman in before my husband even knows what I'm doing. Niceest yard in town,
Oh no! This whole video sounds like me 😆 I know it’s bad but I’m so optimistic that I can make or build anything if I just try.... a little bit. I’m in over my head majority of the time. Haha
Fifty years ago my Step-grandad built a 14 x 40 chicken house using nothing but tools he carried in a tool box with one hand. Now, it takes me a truckload of tools to change a light bulb. He was a True Son of the Old South.
As I read the comments just now, I realized the experience was incomplete ... something was missing. No, not a beer. No, not Jack Daniels. I got up and went straight to the coffee pot, removed the pod of “Community Coffee & Chicory” from this morning and replaced it with a pod of “Community Pecan Praline,” set it to brew, and soon I had the perfect comment-reading experience. I do LOVE the South, bless our hearts-in the good sense, of course! 👒🌺🐊
I wear my "fixin' to..." t-shirt everywhere! Y'all might wanna ( no not another shirt?) include some info slips or coupons to make it easier to refer customers. I get stopped alot while plant shopping!
“I just have to sand off all the old lacquer...shouldn’t take but a few minutes.” Oh, bless his innocent heart.
Oh now that’s a southern burn
Might be easier to just use that torch... burn it off.
@@derekfarley5899 It's called anTEEKing, Derek.
This is me on EVERY project!!! Even I’m sick of me....🙄🙄🙄
Just put it in the southern sun and then it will take a few minutes
Uncle’s car got stolen. He called the police, pointed at the other car in the yard and said, “that’s my parts car, it looks just like that but it has a 2x4 for a front bumper”. It was found the next day.
🤣😂🤣😂
My dad bought me a truck and then bought another truck for parts
@@B_Mbok I did that with a older motorcycle.
Every year b4 vacation my dad would take 3 of 5 vehicles he kept in the backyard and make one highway worthy vehicle. We made 22 hours round-trip every time np. I thought everyone did this til I was in my early 30's and my new husband rented a car😁
@@Braedenfish lol!
Southern toolbox: 1 flat-head, 1 phillips-head, 1 hammer, a roll of Duck tape, a can of WD40, and a hodge podge of nails and screws rolling around at the bottom, none of which are the same size.
You forgot the pry bar.
And one old tape measure that is so faded and covered in pencil marks that it’s barely readable but it’s used for everything still
@@brianmccarthy5557 he said 1 flat-head... no one in their right mind uses slotted heads for anything.
Pretty close except for me change the 1 flat and 1 phillips to half a dozen flat and no phillips, that is until I run into that rare slotted screw and check the tool box to discover that all my flat head screw drivers have miraculously turned into phillips.
Don't forget the 5 or 6 different size hose clamps.
It’s not 3 hours in Home Depot. It’s twelve 15 minute trips to Home Depot because you always have to go back for something
And finding a ride to the store when you can't use your car or don't have one
Well for me and my dad it’s hours upon hours in Lowe’s. The reason is that Home Depot is over an hour away. And no twelve trips neither. When you live in the country, AKA 30+ minutes from Lowe’s, you can’t keep making trips. You’d better get what ya need when ya go.
Better than O'Reilly or advance. You have to keep going back because they aren't organized and give you the wrong parts
Calling my dad to see how his project is going. "Weeelll I'm on my third trip to home depot today."
@@WillBlindYouWithLight I either bring in the actual part or I take a picture with my phone.... Saves a lot of time.
I worked as a carpenter's apprentice once and proved I was uniquely untalented at wood work. The boss referred to me as "The Wood Butcher."
On an old TV show called The Adventures of Pete and Pete, a butchered wood project was once referred to as "Dutch Modern." It didn't save the project, but the attempt was admirable.
Well, my late step-grandfather was a carpenter. He didn't butcher the job, he butchered his fingers. Cut I think half of two fingers off before he decided to retire! 😂🤣
I'm an artistic genius. I can do literally every kind of arts and crafts, furniture refinishing, decorative painting. I taught myself upholstery and recovered a button tufted Victorian style living-room suite. But put a wood saw in my hands and I'm a danger to humanity.
The bird feeder one is absolute truth, but in Alaska we need a fourth, for the bears.
Keep the bears in Alaska please. Thank you. 😁
@@johnw2026 There're bears all over everywhere that is somewhere between mostly rural and wild and also happens to be wooded
We've had bear sightings in backyards here in Missouri. Beautiful animals, but not to be mistaken for a cuddly teddy bear.😉
Bluejae, aren’t they ALL for the bears if they are low enough?
@@samiam619 , we put them up on a 4x4 and we have a pic of one of them standing on the platform, at the top of the 4x4, eating birdseed between it’s feet. So, yes, they are all “low enough” for the bears to claim them. 😊
In Industrial Arts(NEVER call it shop class in front of Mr Earle)I was shop foreman which got me an A every semester & excused from doing a project, though I did build a jewelry box that was raffled off(I won it for Mom)
Nowadays?
There's a cabinet that I helped build for my volunteer fire department that the doors are not cut evenly since we didn't have a fence on the table saw & I tried to free hand the cut.
"Well,Cap, the gap is for extra ventilation.Yeah, that's it."
The cabinet is still in service 15 years later.
Difference between a Southern DIY and a Southern gentleman? The gentlemen has all the usual professionals on speed-dial ... for when he messes up.
Or you marry a guy like me who can do all except electrical. It kinda stings when the power is still on.
New....luckily my husband can do sooo much including electrical/heating/air conditioning. If I need plumbing my brother in law 😁
Good stuff! It comes in handy! But as usual it is the woman who makes it all work though. We men always say " why do it today when there is a ball game on somewhere" lol
Marry a southern DIY’er & it really helps when there is an electrician in the family lol 😂 In fact, I married into an entire family of Southern DIY’ers!!
@@NewBluesBros I thank GOD every day my husband ain't into sports like that 😁
I got a two year degree in welding and another one in metallurgy, then worked as a welder. I have multiple certifications and licenses. After years of working my way through school and degrees I became a welding and materials areospace engineer. I actually can weld two Coke cans together. Some of the scariest words I ever hear are "Oh, I know a bit of welding or brazing or soldering ..." and "Oh, I know how to weld! It's easy!", usually from somebody with an old Sears Mig welder. The guy with the little propane torch cracked me up.
I'd love to see you weld a coke and a Pepsi can together. Post it to YT.
You know what just start a TH-cam channel solely for welding different things together I'm sure you'd get a ton of views
Subbed just in case you listen to the wise comments above mine lol
I’d watch that! Lol
What they said.
I grew up in a 100 year old fixer-upper in a DIY family. This video hurts in all the right places.
The squirrel feeder thing is so real!
I planted a bunch of bulbs this spring - even sprinkled the area with the recommended varmint repellent. A week later, those fuzzy little bastards had dug up every last one. I’m tempted to make one of those squirrel catapult traps you see here on TH-cam. That’s a DIY project I’d be motivated to build correctly.
Oh man ain't it the truth 😓. I put seeds in our feeder and them daggun over grown rats eat all the sunflower seeds 🧐
I've got 2 Dachshunds & their Chorkie apprentice.
Squirrels do not linger in my yard.
My mom bought a squirrel box and keeps it filled, they like it for the easy access and leave the bird feeders alone.
My dog just scares all the squirrels away. She used to, now they don't care.
Haha , we hired our oldest’s friends to move us for a case of beer and I grilled for them . Bam , southern .
My biggest advantage to any home improvement project is my dear wife, she doesn't know how to build things but can really instruct me on how to do the work.
If your really southern Harbor Freight with the 20% coupon is your first stop for tools and then HD or Lowes.
Except HF doesn’t do the coupons anymore.
Well, I've found out, I ain't buying cheap drill bits from HF ever again! Bought a bunch... used one 1 time, drilling through cheap plywood... And the bit was already wore out after just a few minutes! I'ma go to Lowe's, pay up a little more and get good bits from now on!
@@johnw2026 Harbor Freight is a joke!
@@free22 Yeah, have to agree. Nearest town to me has a Harbor Freight, a Southern State, a Tractor Supply, a Lowes, and a couple of smaller lumber yards/tool stores, and Harbor Freight by far has the junkiest equipment.
@@johnw2026 Capitalism at work.
Lol, I was waiting for the "It should only take about an hour!" that is the only time estimate ever given for any DIY project.
To which, I might add, I automatically add 2 - 3 hours for a more realistic estimate. And depending on the project sometimes I might just throw in the whole day.
If it's a 1 hour project you need to be at the hardware store when they open at 7 am, so you can finish before they close at 8 pm.
My wife needs a shirt that says "Pinterest is my love language."
Haha! I saved money doing my own field fence and bought an expensive wire fencing stapler for the job. My wife held that over my head for awhile.
Buffet for the local critters😂😂😂
That’s why I don’t have a veggie garden.
Our squirrels are so lazy they pop the lid off the bird feeder and actually lie down inside it to eat.
Reminds me of overhearing my neighbor telling his girlfriend "Baby, duct tape doesn't fix everything." I wanted to interrupt and disagree.
If the Egyptians had had duct tape, the Sphinx would still have a nose
Duct tape and wd40, if it moves and it's not supposed to, duct tape, if it doesn't move and is supposed to, wd40.
@@davidbinau2029 And I've heard WD-40 also works on Arthur-itis and cures dogs of the mange.
@@deannculver7969 And remember, duct tape is the #1 cure for warts. I’m kinda hoping I never have to try it out.
Hehee, 😉 and you were just too polite (too Southern, maybe?) to demonstrate!
I love DIY projects. It's the perfect excuse to buy new power tools!
I've never lived anywhere but California, but I think I might be Southern at heart. :)
We’ll take ya! Please leave piranhas in CA though, if you don’t mind. 😉 They’ll scare the alligators.
I love southern squirrels. They're so small. It's adorable. I grew up in NY and our squirrels are the size of house cats.
Matt I put the screws in old coffee cans. But love your organization
0:12 This guy is my spirit animal. Everything he says is exactly what I do and how I describe things. I love and am learning to work on my car and my mom always tells me to go to the mechanic. I tell her how much money I am saving by doing it myself, but don't tell her how much I spent in tools haha
Greetings, I'm from Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada. I'd just like to say how much I've been enjoying your videos. Love the sense of humour. Everyone needs to have a good laugh, keeps the days brighter. Thank you for the laughter.
Little known fact: DIY was originally a police code... Dead In Yard. True story.
Judging from the parts list for that homemade table saw, it might wind up standing for both.
There were enough incidents of people dead in yards that they had to make a code for it?! ...😳
When I was in the Coast Guard I had a 1st class that used the term "DRT" Dead Right There.
@@OokamiKageGinGetsu or the one with a torch.
@Praesidium
BBK: Bucket been kicked
The music in Home Depot commercials *SLAPS*
Two hours to heat it up? In August? In the South? Bruh it would probably take 30 seconds
Every year, kids are burned by the first water from the hose... 2 hours? Nah... just connect all your hoses first before filling it up.
yes
@@derekfarley5899 it hurts so bad!!
And by day two it will be full of mosquitos, dead bugs and tadpoles.
@@lorenstribling6096 least there's no sand flies by you, those are the worst and they're more useless than mosquitos and just fly into you or anything you're holding. Had them fly into my coffee before 🤮
" A child could do this..."
Ok. Hand my 7 year old nephew that torch, and we'll see how long it takes for you to call the fire department! 🔥🚒
What are you running? 110, 220? Eh, 220, 221, whatever it takes.
Soooo right about the squirrels!! 😂😂 They are something else!!
That last one is why people end up on fire.
@Veronica - folks end up on ! fire ? (just foolin' with ya)
Lol
I mean...I use a blowtorch to get rid of spider webs around the house. I've almost set the house on fire more times doing something legitimate than killing spiders!
I only get to play with the blow torch once a year when I go camping with my friends (because I’m not allowed to buy myself a blow torch). That’s always a fun weekend.
The first person to post on the Southern Thing videos gets a free trip to Golden Corral. You need to pay for the food, but you can go there for free.
Well that's neat anyway because the closest one is 2 hours away so that's a lot of gas money
@@sarabeth641 Assuming you can find some gas.
@@brianmccarthy5557 I haven't had any trouble with that. I'm sorry for those who have though
I ain't driving an hour and 20 minutes just to eat somewhere. I don't have time, and my SUV gets 20 mpg tops, so that's a no-go. Gotta be some other legit reason for me to go to Little Rock for me to stop by the Golden Corral.
Golden Corral for me is over an hour away 😂
I'm a retired contractor now working at Home Depot. Y'all are my favorite customers 😄
In college, a couple of my friends were making a dog house, and their measurements were off because they assumed 2x4s were 2" by 4". I had to say, "Boys, let me teach you about the world of nominal sizing."
My father made a doghouse in his basement shop, naive of the bsmt door width.
[edit] or lack thereof.
My dad did that with a Martin bird house. Triple decker with 9 bird holes on each side made out of 1/2 inch plywood. Thing weighed a ton.
Then why are they called 2x4?
@@Annbakermodel help. I need to know too
@@samuelhowie4543 That sounds more like a Martin hotel. Or resort.
I actually didn’t know a 2x4 isn’t actually 2 by 4.
For those wondering, the internet tells me they are 1.5 x 3.5
That is correct.
A 2x6 is actually 1.5 x 5.5
To my why of thinking, it’s false advertising to call it a 2x4!
I mean if Subway gets sued for their foot long sandwiches not being 12 inches...
I had no idea either! Thanks for doing that research for us! 😂
As someone who diy-ed a pool shed, I felt the straight nail bit and the 2x4 bit in my soul. 🤣😫
I'd scoop leaves out of that pool every day with a smile!😁
My son moved to Chattanooga. His wife is from there. All of this is so humorous but can see how much is true. Love your channel.
Actual Southerners are Great at Construction and would be shamed if they couldn't hit a Nail .
Nail guns are better.
You can hang way off a ladder and still nail stuff one handed.
@@blatherskite9601 i agree .
The younger generation not so much 🤷🏾😄
@@kamjason9300 You're so right Kam, it's very sad too that they haven't any interest in learning physical skills.
The one about sanding the dining room chairs in only a few minutes... I bust out laughing for over a minute!!
"Pinterest is my love language". That spoke to my soul ♥️
I could just hire my cousin, who I pay in Jack Daniels..😂😂
Woo! Clicked so fast...almost spilled my sweet tea.
Bless your heart ❤️
That would be a high crime
That would be bad.
@@josephpettit8572 at least enough to say a prayer of repentance over...
Yep
When we do a project at home we measure the difficulty by the number of trips to Lowes it takes to get it done.
Running a water line connecting to an existing line would be a minimum of three trips.
Trip one. Get the stuff you thought you needed
Trip two. Get the stuff you broke while twisting the end of the existing water line
Trip three. Get the other stuff you didn’t get because underestimated what you needed to begin with.
Trip four. Get the stuff to expand the original project because saw the original project was so good that she wanted the water line run to another flower bed.
So True1
Oh, I’m a Midwest northern guy, I sent my wife to her mom’s for the weekend to renovate the bedroom. 8 months later it got done, so proud my wife found a handy contractor to finish it. I found a lot of errors, yeah I think they were his. My story and sticking to it....
Y'all kno.. there's a MUCH BETTER
home improvement store..
It's called LOWE'S!! 💓💓💓
Wait until Menards works its way down there. All things DIY plus frozen pizza. And Krud Kutter.
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Ummm...not anymore! Quality no more. Go HD!
It's all about that ceiling fan motor. And then follow it up with some fudge.
Y’all, I’m old enough to remember when Lowe’s and Home Depot were real hardware stores instead of a decorative design store that happened to sell hardware products.
I remember when all we had was a local lumber yard
When I was a kid, we had one hardware store in town; Howard's Hardware. Guy behind the counter was Howard, literal store owner.
I like the back of Lowes. The part with all the wood planks.
Thankfully, we still have a great, locally owned lumber yard and hardware store here. And they know *everything*. We love 'em, they even give you little bags of popcorn and will come look for you if you get lost.
That's because of all of the daughters of the Karens with their live laugh Love theme.
I have a fever...and the only prescription is... MORE PEGBOARD!
Is it just me that loves the smell of Home Depot? That woody smell from the lumber in the back? The paint? Mmmmm
Something about that always makes me yawn
The smell of sawdust and lumber, paint and varnish and the sounds of circular saws and hammering always reminds me of my dad. He was always building or working on something. Miss him terribly.
My daughter, since she was 5 asked for special trips to Home Depot. "Wood, I love wood" all while wearing her tutu
@@4knewt505 GOSH, that’s cute! I wonder why she was so drawn to the wood and the scent of the wood....
@@annap7678 I don't really know. My husband is not handy at all. She does like to do art with wood. She has some pieces she uses like canvas. But as an artist, she has " to be in the mood" 🤣. She's 12 now, no more tutu's but she still dabbles in wood.
Gloss bath and kitchens. Matte for all other walls. Sander for that lacquer.
I know two things about DIY:
"Where's the Gorilla tape?!!"
"Where's the WD40?!!" (For everything duct tape doesnt work for.)
There’s gorilla glue never heard of gorilla tape
Thank you ..Love that tape.
“The first 10 seconds of them” is the truest thing I’ve heard today.
What am am waiting for? Peach Cobbler! That's what I am waiting for! Promise me there will be peach cobbler at the Potluck and I am there!
ALL you need to ask is, "Hey, y'all got any duck tape?"
I do all my own work. It beats paying a nincompoop, but it's probably two or three times the cost of a competent professional.
And now you know why home insurance costs so much. It is the liability of the DIY projects.
Yeah, I'll haul those pallets home. I've seen all kinds of things you can make out of them. Fall comes, they become firewood.
With the price of lumber these days, it's a cheap way to build a fence.
Just don't try to burn the treated ones! I know from experience, you DON'T PUT NO KIND OF TREATED LUMBER IN A FIREPLACE OR WOOD STOVE! Did that 1 time when I was a boy, the fumes about ran all 5 of us out the house!
@@johnw2026 just have an outdoor firepit. Thanks.
The fence thing to not see your neighbors yard is so true lol ours fell down last spring and while we have a lot of stuff that needs to get done that got a vip ticket for the top 😂
My tools are organized the same way! 🤣 Mason jar and everything
Dadgu.... Dadgum squirrels ! ? - oh it's on now yard boy.... we gonna heave anything and everything at 'cha, we gonna dip into those other feeders, we gonna breed like the second coming, all us sit and stare into yer windows. You messed with the wrong !! squirrel !
Me: spends 3 days replacing flooring in a 12X16 room
Also me: I feel attacked here.
That is why I will never install a backyard pool, too much work to manage.
Just finished putting one in. Or at last I think I finished. **crying** It never ends!
Matt is such a gem......we must come from the same lineage 😂😂😂
How about "I already cut it twice and its still too short"
Measure once and cut twice
Heard it many times.
Just cut everything around it to make those pieces smaller to match.
I'll measure three times, mark it, measure it again, cut it, and still magically get it wrong.
@@TheOReport1994 it's those yellawood beavers messing with u
Cousin of a friend owned a small town antique store and lived upstairs. One Sunday afternoon he decided that he wanted a sky light. He was sure that he could put it in because he watched Bob Villa. He cut the whole and a sudden storm flooded the place.
He ended up running up and down the stairs with buckets like Mickey Mouse in the Sorcerer's Apprentice. 😰
Eventually a 2x4 is going to be 1x2.
They already are in mobile homes.
@@shadowdawg04 You mean in place of 2x4s in the walls? Do you know what those things cost - the big ones? There's a guy on TH-cam who tours us around the mobile homes he sells, and they cost as much as a house.
"Yes, I need 3 bird feeders. I need one for the hummingbirds..." One HAS to be for the squirrels. "...and one for those dang squirrels." lol. Or in my uncle's case, one for the bears. Feeding birds is a real hassle for him.
I love walking around Home Depot. So much to see.
"Child could do this!" [lighting up a propane torch] "Bless his heart!" LOL!
squirrels? dont get me started on them dang gum tree rats !!
Gaffe: Pool guy has *wrong* yard art. Southern? No way. He's going to hell.🤣 (You must do a yard art bit.)
I watch this and realize that I am the way I am because I’m Southern! 😊
I'm definitely guilty buying $800 worth of tools for ONE job!!!
Spent over $40 once on tools just to remove a nut on an alternator that was tightened too tight.
I empathize with the "I just want paint", freaking tried to find white paint a few years back...who knew that was such a complicated color. /smh
I don't know this Southern stuff, but the Southern stuff my grandmother did DIY...
How many hours it takes to dry the green beans on the sheet in the front yard.
How to string the green beans doing it yourself.
How many threads to string the strung dried green beans on the front wall outside the front of the house.
How to save money on building a pool? Go swimming in a pond.
Home Depot and Lowes sponsor Nascar.
Ten penny nails.
Who needs a flower bed when you need to grow maters.
Tobacco gets hung up in the tobacco barn your great-great grandfather built.
What kind of hammer? Clawhead, ballpeen? If you are Southern, you know hammers are not just hammers.
Never make a sigogglin' wall.
You only need one color paint ever.
These people sound like Midwesterners. You built a pool? What do you need a pool for when you need to keep the chickens fed and make that chicken pen DIY.
You never say the term DIY because it is default you are going to DIY.
You forgot to add "and then I finally listened to my wife "
Tools are an investment
2:28 I have never related to something so much in my life.
A guy: "I watched a lot of TH-cam videos... Well the first 10 seconds."
Any repairman: "I smell a lot of money coming my way soon"
All I do is look the project up in the woodworking magazine and if there's more than two hands in it, I call the handyman in before my husband even knows what I'm doing. Niceest yard in town,
LMBO! My annual battle with the squirrels had begun! My deck and veggies are their smorgasbord! 🙄
Oh no! This whole video sounds like me 😆 I know it’s bad but I’m so optimistic that I can make or build anything if I just try.... a little bit. I’m in over my head majority of the time. Haha
Matt's organization skills... I feel attacked.
This all sounds pretty much the way it is...especially the amount of “investment” you “need” to spend on tools every project 😁
I loved it when fixing the car myself to save $200 meant I got a cool new $50 tool! Score.
Yep, plants and Pinterest. A kindred spirit.
Matt: Those daggum squirrels
Me: Laughs in Mark Rober
2:50
and approximately how much time elapsed between that statement and your call to the fire department?
Fifty years ago my Step-grandad built a 14 x 40 chicken house using nothing but tools he carried in a tool box with one hand. Now, it takes me a truckload of tools to change a light bulb. He was a True Son of the Old South.
To drill a hole in a glass jar, you need a diamond bit. You're barking up the wrong tree.
I've heard my husband say most everything Matt and Luke said. 🤣
Dadgum squirrels, I hear you brother!
Not satisfied with just my veggie garden them varmints chewed up our Christmas lights. Cute but varmints.
As I read the comments just now, I realized the experience was incomplete ... something was missing. No, not a beer. No, not Jack Daniels. I got up and went straight to the coffee pot, removed the pod of “Community Coffee & Chicory” from this morning and replaced it with a pod of “Community Pecan Praline,” set it to brew, and soon I had the perfect comment-reading experience.
I do LOVE the South, bless our hearts-in the good sense, of course! 👒🌺🐊
I'm liking the Cafe Special right now. Community is awesome. 👍🏻
LOL! I got news for you. That ain't just Southerners. Allow me to introduce you to my husband.
Southerner's tool kit:
Duct tape
Chewing gum
Bailing wire
Beer
Omg i do all this stuff in upstate NY I didn't think it was also a southern thing to do too. 🤣
Laughing my butt off!!!! Love it!
I wear my "fixin' to..." t-shirt everywhere! Y'all might wanna ( no not another shirt?) include some info slips or coupons to make it easier to refer customers. I get stopped alot while plant shopping!
Most used tools in front by door, least used tools at the back, all screws in a jar labeled :screws". Funny
The dadgum squirrels... I feel y’all!
As an experienced engineer, this is giving me flashbacks of friends and family.