What kind of projects can you do around your house?

One thing I've learned from our upcoming move: people will buy or take any of your old junk. 

Put random s#!t on the corner: gone in 15 minutes. 

Put random s#!t on Facebook marketplace: people will travel from all over for your garbage

 
GSG said:
One thing I've learned from our upcoming move: people will buy or take any of your old junk. 

Put random s#!t on the corner: gone in 15 minutes. 

Put random s#!t on Facebook marketplace: people will travel from all over for your garbage
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This is sooooo true!

 
Madcows said:
Can't say this enough, I know we will be moving in the next 5-10 years to downsize and I'm already dreading it.
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Two words, garage sale. Two days of hell=people paying you to take your stuff. Sell everything, buy new and let the store bring your stuff. 
 

but junk in a random boxes with $10 in it. They will go first.  What you don’t sell have habitat fir humanity pick it up. 

 
Drained swimming pool.  It's peanut shape, 50 feet long, with a jacuzzi, a slide and diving board.  Deep end is 9 feet deep.  So yeah, it's a bit longer than normal pools and a foot deeper than normal pools.

The base white paint in the pool has been chipping over time and looked gray in areas. 

After draining the water, I power washed it with a pressure washer.  Then put painters tape over the tiles (the outline at top of pool) and painted the pool blue.

Was a great job, and fun task / hobby.  I loved it.  Because I took my time with it early in the morning and before it got scorching hot.  Pressure wash was 2 days because I liked doing it and own one.  Painting took 2 days but could have been a one day thing.  Started at deep end.  Got sweaty and hot by 11am so I resumed the next day.  One coat.  Waited a few hot days to dry.  Then refilled pool.  

It looks waayy more beautiful.

Oh I also painted the slide dark red and repainted the diving board white.  It's so cool

PS.  To refill it with water is going to kill me with next month's water/utility bill.  I'm guessing 500-1000... I don't know.  But it's a lot of gallons of water and took over 24 hours to fill it up.  

 
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admo said:
Drained swimming pool.  It's peanut shape, 50 feet long, with a jacuzzi, a slide and diving board.  Deep end is 9 feet deep.  So yeah, it's a bit longer than normal pools and a foot deeper than normal pools.

The base white paint in the pool has been chipping over time and looked gray in areas. 

After draining the water, I power washed it with a pressure washer.  Then put painters tape over the tiles (the outline at top of pool) and painted the pool blue.

Was a great job, and fun task / hobby.  I loved it.  Because I took my time with it early in the morning and before it got scorching hot.  Pressure wash was 2 days because I liked doing it and own one.  Painting took 2 days but could have been a one day thing.  Started at deep end.  Got sweaty and hot by 11am so I resumed the next day.  One coat.  Waited a few hot days to dry.  Then refilled pool.  

It looks waayy more beautiful.

Oh I also painted the slide dark red and repainted the diving board white.  It's so cool

PS.  To refill it with water is going to kill me with next month's water/utility bill.  I'm guessing 500-1000... I don't know.  But it's a lot of gallons of water and took over 24 hours to fill it up.  
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I want a in ground pool so bad!!!

Yours sounds awesome.  

 
About to do the backsplash in the kitchen. Shouldn't be too difficult except for the one outlet I can't just put a box extender on to get the right depth.

 
Nebfanatic said:
About to do the backsplash in the kitchen. Shouldn't be too difficult except for the one outlet I can't just put a box extender on to get the right depth.
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If you can replace the outlet box with a depth-adjustable one, I strongly recommend it. Then you can set the exact depth after the finish work is complete.

 
desertshox said:
They make box extensions for it. Just a plastic piece that slips into the cutout. Just need longer 6/32 screws.

Oh, and make sure your wires are long enough.
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I find the extensions are rarely the right depth and extremely frustrating. But they definitely can work.

 
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