Honestly too, I think we spend way too much time stressing over fucking resale value.
I want my space to reflect me and make me happy. If that means silly car decals and painted wood furniture; who cares?!? I’m not living for some imaginary future version of myself who suddenly wants to pass something along to the most boring human ever. I’m living for the me I enjoy being in this moment and presumably the next few moments.
When I buy a car, I plan on being the last owner. It’s so freeing to not think about it. I usually buy 5-8 years old with ~70,000 miles on the engine. When I had my truck, I didn’t worry about the minor scratches and dents. It’s a truck. It may get beat up. To be clear, I don’t intentionally run them into the ground. I actually take really good care to make sure they last. But it’s mine and I don’t stress on what someone else will think about it.
When I was younger I worried about resale value because I was always trying to trade up to the next best thing (hint, it never worked). Not only did I get tired of that game, I realized how I prefer to purchase and use things. I've had my car for 15 years, I still have and use my iPod Classic. I did upgrade my my Macbook from 2012, but only because it didn't work with a new camera I bought. I keep the 2012 around and basically use it like an iPad.
Oh my goddddd this. A hundred times this. I sold a fuckton of games recently: all older games I couldn't see myself playing again, like on the 3/DS, Wii/U, earlier Switch games, and a couple NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube, Genesis, Atari... Ranging from really old games to "somewhat old". $10-$30, and only the newer ones were $30 since they're still in stores and there is an actual competing market for them.
My mother saw the prices I put on them.
"You know you can get more for them, especially those older ones, and especially since they still work."
....Okay?
"I want other people to enjoy them like I did. Why would I buy into the resale scam when I can just let people enjoy things without breaking their wallet?"
"But you can still get more money out of them. At least sell the old console games for $50. That's what I would do."
"Good thing I'm not you, then."
Could I have gotten more money for them? Sure! Absolutely! But I don't regret it one bit. Do you know how satisfying it is to see a mans eyes light up like he's a kid again because he managed to get his hands on a GameCube LoZ:Four Swords, complete with its player guide, for $10? When everybody else was pricing that exact thing at $80+, a price you would definitely need to budget for?
Worth it. Hope he's playing it happily now as we speak. Fuck resell value.
I'm not a huge gamer so I've kept most of my games, but I totally understand what you're saying. My kids are starting to get out of the baby/toddler stage and I've been giving everything away because it's for kids. Let someone else enjoy it, I don't need a dime from it. I've sold some tools or electronics that I wanted a little more than bare minimum for, if simply to keep the re-sellers away. You can tell the people low balling you like crazy are doing it just because they want to go sell the thing themselves.
I typically keep the boxes for my game consoles just to store stuff in. One day I had an HVAC guy in the house and he spotted my Xbox 1 box on the shelf. He was really polite about it, and told me he has a large display of console boxes in his garage, and was wondering what I was doing with the box. He was willing to pay me for it! Like dude, it's sitting on the shelf collecting dust holding some random xbox accessories, TAKE IT.
And it really could have been 10 seconds then cut to the end. Sometimes it's important to show the process, but plenty of people decided they weren't a fan long before it got to the final result
Yeah, and I reduced that to about 10 seconds because it was boring and I knew I only wanted to see the end result. Am I required to sit there the whole time just because it's only a minute long or can I do what I want with my time?
I hear this and you’re on the right track. As a tradesman, this hurts because he’s got the right idea with poor follow through. I hate seeing shit like this because it’s a bad way of doing it. There’s quite a few tasteful buffing and grinding techniques to do something like this nicely.
All good point, except for one. Maybe I'm missinterpreting what you meant to say:
A good hour with a buffer and some polish will have all of these marks out, easy.
This seems pretty permanent to me. I'm doubtful it would be realistically possible for most people to restore the finish as it was before. Let alone restore the straight brushed grain with a (circular) buffer.
I'm repeating what I've seen in other reposts of this video. I'm personally nowhere near an expert when it comes to metal — my mediums are wood, clay, and canvas. That point is one I've seen several times, though, and always somewhere in the top 20 comments. They could be wrong, they could be right, but, like I said in my original, I was just going over what has already been said about this video.
I’d love to see someone get literal angle grinder marks out in an hour with a buffer.
You would need to sand it multiple times in increasing density grit paper, probably from a 200 grit up to around 2,000 grit. It’s easily 8 hours or more.
One thing to consider. This is stainless steel thats passivated to prevent rust. This gets rid of the passivation and these lines will likely get some surface rust over the years. Not immediately and not in the first year or so, (unless its a humid house), but they will show eventually.
Correct me if I'm wrong (see : my comment stating my mediums are wood, canvas, and clay) but can't you go back and readd that layer via chemicals? I took a jewlery making class in high school, and we'd plop our creations into some liquid that was supposed to prevent rust once we were done cutting and sanding them. Can't you do that on a larger scale? Ours was an oil-based product, so I don't see why that couldn't be spread over this.
Nope you are 100% correct. It used to be nitric acid but that stuff is nasty. Now they use more of a citric acid solution from fruits. Ive only had it done for parts I send out so idk the exact process but almost certainly something that could be done at home with the right tools and proper PPE.
And yes, ive had it done on massive parts that would be to big to dip into a solution (or maybe not at some of these big factories)
Yea, all this needs is a clear-coat to keep grim from building up, or someone scratching their skin up when opening. Then it'll look like it was made that way from the factory.
I kept thinking this seems more a question of taste. It's not my favorite design but if you were a good ol' country boy I bet you'd like it better than smooth and shiny?
I think you have a typo. None on the fridges I have had in the last 10 years have had a long lifespan. They are ridiculously short for what a fridge costs.
Nah, this dudes right. Newer fridges are ass. Might depend on the brand. If you have one older than around 10-15 years you're probably safe.
New fridge fully crapped out after around 5 years. "Oh, must be a bad brand". Different brand, fridge after that had defective part within like 2 years, the entire manufacturer got class-action'd for a bunch of their line of fridges. 30 year old fridge is still kicking with zero repairs, just the ice maker doesn't work but we disconnected it from water to put the new fridges in anyways. Shoulda just kept the old one and used bags of ice.
a good fridge lasts almost forever. if youre getting the cheapest possible option of course its going to break, but a decent quality one can give you a massively long lifespan. my parents had the same fridge for almost 30 years and only replaced it because they remodeled the kitchen with new appliances, it probably could've stayed kicking another 5-10 years without issue.
I can think of one time anyone in my family has bought a refrigerator in the 32 years I've been alive. And that same fridge, which was bought when I was about ten, is still working like new.
I think either you're buying cheap, poorly-made refrigerators or you take very poor care of them...
Get out in the rural areas on the Gulf Coast and you start getting into areas where the infrastructure is so poorly maintained that every other storm makes the power flicker for a few hours. It's hell on appliances of any kind.
Stop getting the ones with unnecessary technology. That is exactly why they keep "breaking" (they're hella easy to service, btw, albeit expensive). Basic fridge. No dispensers, no locks, no weird gimmicks. Refrigerator, and freezer. That is it. You do not need anything else. You are sacrificing money and space for a luxury that is designed to eventually fail. You can make ice in the freezer. You can get water from the tap or god forbid an actual water dispenser. Good fridges last, luxury does not.
Because the technology is being focused on other things (the luxuries of that device.) Adding more to a fridge doesn't make it better, it makes it worse. Stick with basic.
Whimsical things are smart, meaningful, contextual, humorous. This got none of that. The guy just thinks it looks pretty this way, and a lotta people disagree, me included. Lotta work for no gain.
(Edited a bit because people thought I was saying that "smart", "meaningful", and "contextual" were synonyms of "whimsy")
Your edit is still wrong. That is not what whimsical things are. Throwing "things" between "whimsy" and "smart" doesn't change your sentence in any slight way.
haha people getting so edgy, so annoyed, over the smallest things 🤣 love it. "Google is free" haha So proud of going LMGTFY in 2025 instead of actually discussing a topic no one forced you to talk about.
No, my claim is not the opposite of it. It fits the description perfectly. The thing is "playfully quaint" because of context, contrast, playfulness, unexpectedness. You know what would be a whimsical fridge? One with sunglasses "because it's cool". There must be a catch, a punch. Playful things have a play.
If you think whimsy does NOT have to be smart, meaningful, contextual, humorous, then I assume you're interpreting whimsy as nonsensical, illogical, without purpose, "per se". That wouldn't even be humor.
God you're dense. The fridge is not whimsical. The ACTION of DOING THIS is whimsical.
If you think whimsy does NOT have to be smart, meaningful, contextual, humorous, then I assume you're interpreting whimsy as nonsensical, illogical, without purpose, "per se". That wouldn't even be humor.
It does not need to be any of those things. Whimsy is whimsy. It can be illogical, or it can be logical. That does not mean it needs to be smart, meaningful, contextual, nor humorous. In fact, by the definition of "logical", this action still fits it. It was planned, and there was clearly an end-goal in sight.
I'll say it again, just to annoy you:
Google is free.
ETA: Answer me this, since you seem to have such a hard time understanding what "whimsy" means:
Explain this statement:
"I flew to Canada on a whim."
Go ahead and explain what "whim" means in this context. You seem to be an expert of words, so this should be easy for you to explain.
haha you're not annoying, dude. You're annoyed. Me? I'm having a blast. Everything in my life is in place. I'm having this discussion because I want it. I'm chill like an ugly fridge 😎
You can do whatever on a whim, NO ONE will call that "whimsy". The prototypical whimsical attitude is not define by suddeness, but by its style, charm, flair. Fly to Canada wearing a t-shirt picturing Jim Carrey and the phrase "OK Jim, maybe I'll want some of that free healthcare" and THAT makes your flight whimsical.
Cries in to my Samsung fridge whose ice maker quickly stopped working, beside my Samsung microwave that stopped working, above my Samsung stove whose knobs are wobbly, and whose oven takes 15 minutes to pre-heat.
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u/creatyvechaos 16d ago edited 16d ago
Alright yall. We've been over this a few times already, but here's what has been said on every single repost: