I was cleaning the garage yesterday and got the shop vac out to clean up piles of sawdust and bugs on the window sills. Well it wasn't doing a great job so I opened it up and the filter was plugged. So I grab the junk vacuum(Eureka cyclone canister) and proceed to clean that out with my air compressor, it was plugged with DE(dogs got fleas, that's a pitch thread). So I'm outside the garage making it look like I'm fogging the neighborhood for mosquitoes when my wife walks out and see's me in my gas mask(DE is some nasty shit on the lungs). She quirks an eyebrow and watches me clean the vacuum(she thought it was ruined). I put it back together then proceed to use the crevice tool on the previously dead vacuum to vacuum out the pleats in my shop vac filter. Her comment "That looks like a pain in the ass". It kind of is, but my grandfather was one of those men who fixed things and even saved slivers of soap to make a new bar. I'm not as extreme as he was but some of those things have kept with me. Cleaning a $15 shop vac filter is one of them. I can easily buy a new one, but it will take me just as long to drive to the depot as it will to clean the thing and get back to work. Plus it keeps a filter out of the landfill, I've been cleaning the same filter for 15 years and the vac runs just fine(Ridgid 4.5g).

So what kind of things do you do that others might consider a waste of time?

I am a cop

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Originally posted by SPG:
I am a cop

The vast majority of us here would definitely NOT consider that pursuit a waste of time, Sir! Thank you for protecting your community.

(I suspect you were only kidding anyway...)

226Reasons,

I can relate to your post. I’ll start to do one thing, then that makes me find something else that needs doing to accomplish the first thing, then THAT leads me to something else, and so on. I call it “chore dominoes”

OMG 226Reasons, I think I may have become your grandfather (and I won't be 60 til this upcoming January!!)!!
I've started to save slivers of soap to make a new smaller bar...

My wife seems to be more focused on the things I DON’T do.

Looks like your period and enter keys are not working.

Bob

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Originally posted by SigFan:
I’ll start to do one thing, then that makes me find something else that needs doing to accomplish the first thing, then THAT leads me to something else, and so on. I call it “chore dominoes”

We call it "but-firsting", and frequently it ends with no idea where you started.....

Changing the oil in my vehicles myself. My neighbors ask why I don’t pay to have it done and I tell them that the only way I know it will be done right is to do it myself. At least I know there will he high quality synthetic oil used, nothing will leak, the filter will not be overtightened and there will actually be oil in it. I know two people who got their cars back with no oil in them.

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Originally posted by Georgeair:

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Originally posted by SigFan:
I’ll start to do one thing, then that makes me find something else that needs doing to accomplish the first thing, then THAT leads me to something else, and so on. I call it “chore dominoes”

We call it "but-firsting", and frequently it ends with no idea where you started.....

Oh god....there's a name for it, it happens whenever I start cleaning the garage or spare rooms...or do yard work...or....

well some people think cleaning a 10/22 is a waste of time.

Like you (OP) though, I also clean out my shop vac's filter although, I use a wisk broom (keeps the DE dust down (we also use DE for the same reason(s))).

When changing the oil in the GTO, I always wipe down the skid plate (the side against the oil pan). Also, washing any of the vehicles, I will clean out the wheel wells (if I can get my hand in there) and; I clean out the underside of my lawn mower's deck.

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I am a cop

This is funny as hell! In the current times, cops don't get any respect!

Attempt to reason with my wife.

Men think in a linear manner and women’s, or at least my wife’s brain, works the same as a waste basket full of sticky notes. Reach in, stir it a couple of times, and then grab the next line/thought to be used in the conversation.

I can’t win....

I too clean the deck of my mower, I know it will extend the life of the deck.

When I changed to oil on my truck I wiped down the undercarriage where oil would drip....that way of a drop was on the floor, I knew it was a leak and not old...

I religiously washed the outside of my patrol car and sprayed the engine compartment and underneath. The garage guys actually thanked me and knew my car would be immaculate...this was a two way street..they never left greasy prints on the inside or outside.

I think I get all this from my military experience. And having been a scout. Attention to detail

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Originally posted by mas4363:
Attempt to reason with my wife.

Men think in a linear manner and women’s, or at least my wife’s brain, works the same as a waste basket full of sticky notes. Reach in, stir it a couple of times, and then grab the next line/thought to be used in the conversation.

I can’t win....

This may help.




Link to original video: https://youtu.be/hV2m9glXG68

I PT the spiders in my kitchen. 0430 hours every cot damn day. Ain't nobody get a free ride around here. Ain't none of this just layin' around in the web waitin' for breakfast shit goin' on here.

I admit playing Reveille at full volume is perhaps a bit much, but they got to know who's in charge.

Thank you....that made me laugh out loud

You in your boxers and a brown round

"ALRIGHT YOU SORRY EIGHT LEGGED SHIT....WAKE THE FUCK UP"

" AAAAND JUMPING JACKS...ONE...TWO...."

Attempt to reason with my mom. Worse than with my wife. Automatic losing foray. When will I ever learn? My siblings know better; they evidently got the lion's share of brains in my family.

I polish the windows,on our vehicles, inside and out!

Mower deck cleaning is not silly, it's good preventive maintenance. Few things more corrosive than decomposing grass.

The deck of my 25 year old riding mower is original and as solid as the day it came off the showroom floor. Every fall, it gets scraped, wire-brushed and hit with a coat of Rustoleum rusty metal primer before being stored. Along with a lube job and an oil and filter change.

My 5 foot finish mower that goes on the back of the Cabota gets the same treatment. When you've got that kind of okane tied up in something, it just makes sense.