When we bought a fixer-upper, we knew it would require work, and so it was kind of funny when one day in the fall, the closet collapsed and all my clothes fell down. I packed up everything that I wasn’t actively wearing. Just for a few weeks, you know, until we put up new shelves. But see, the closet looked like a wreck after the shelf was pulled out of the wall, so I took down all the weird bits of shelf, spackled over the holes and repainted the closet. It was boring and stupid.
Then I measured the closet and worked out what size closet bar would fit in a weird trapezoidal closet. I thought my husband would be able to do it, I kind of thought this was a gender-linked ability. When every other guy I know was taught how to use studfinders (step one, point it at yourself and say “got one!” step two, laugh hysterically, step three, hang up shelves), my husband must have cut class that day. So we tried to hire someone and there was another delay and another delay and this whole thing is getting too stupid and boring.
On the subject of boring and stupid, the windows are scheduled for repair too, but for additional boring reasons, that’s delayed too! So if I don’t want to freeze like a Dickensian orphan this winter, I needed to do something about the icy cold drafts. So we bought some kind of plastic that you stick over the windows to seal them. You stick it on and then tape it and then seal it with heat from a hairdryer.
So, ok, I do OWN a hairdryer, but remember how everything that’s non-essential is in an unlabeled, temporary box since I don’t have a closet now? And I CAN blow dry my hair, but I also can sleep 20 more minutes, so right into the unlabeled nonessential boxes it went. In my defense, when I shoved it in a box somewhere, I didn’t know that one could fix windows with a hairdryer.
Anyway, this is all so boring and stupid, but I sealed up the windows really well. It’s perfectly sealed, no leaks or drafts at all. I did a second layer, too, just to be absolutely sure, and I’m so proud of myself.
I enjoyed being warm for a good 48 hours before our dishwasher started smoking, with a terrible smell of burned plastic, and all my windows are perfectly sealed shut.
