The Secret of Home Maintenance

Why is it that when some people fix something it falls apart within a week? You might be married to this person and know exactly who I’m talking about.
There are other masters of the tool chest, however, who are able to make minor adjustments that last forever in their homes.
The secret of these home improvement giants is called the temporary repair.
When they put something up, they don’t intend for it to last.
But nothing lasts like a temporary repair. Hang a door with nails on one hinge --- just so it’ll hang there good enough until you can find some screws to do the job right, and it will be swinging contentedly there the day you die. If you’d put screws in the hinges, you know, done the job right, the door wouldn’t have fit, and the screws would have worked themselves out and you would have lived with a door that stuck for years until it fell off and dropped on the dog.
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