Right out of the gate, let’s throw down the disclaimer: my husband is a prince. A man whose only childhood pets—Easter chicks—showed up on the dinner table a few months later, he now kindly puts up with a houseful of ill-behaved critters. He also grants me lots of slack for my less-than-stellar housekeeping skills. Not to mention that he will eat—without complaint—any meal placed in front of him.
Okay, so on to the trait that drives me nuts: he’s an inveterate wannabe Rube Goldberg, There are several goofy
half-repaired fixtures around the house, which, if you click here, you can see one in its splendid jury-rigged glory. When our puppy broke the bottom pane in the storm door, hubby used some leftover cedar shakes from the house to patch the empty spot.
What fun to stumble across Cheezeburger Network’s There, I Fixed It (No, You Didn’t). More accurately, it stumbled across me, as it jumped from the shelf and landed—ouch!—on my foot one day last week.
Included are all sorts of ingenious and goofball fix-its. One that puts me in mind of a Neco fixit is a coffeemaker that fixit Alex explains, “My coffee pot fell off the table and shattered. Ten dollars for a replacement? I looked around for what I needed. An old teapot and a fork”. The sunbeam coffeemaker has a teapot with a fork wedged in to disengage the antidrip feature.
Home-done car repair is another favorite (don’t even get me started there!) Lots of duct-taped bumpers, a Honda steering wheel (unsuccessfully) stapled together, My very favorite: a child’s plastic bear with a circular mirror on its belly repurposed to function as a driver’s side mirror.
Just in case you happen to get the munchies for more not-quite-successful fixits, there’s also a fun website, entitled (duh) www.thereifixedit.com