I'm curious what type of "fun" y'all like to have on your projects.

My top three favorite games to play when I'm working on a project are:

• Go buy another tool because I need it *right now* and I can't find the one I already own
• Trying to find the thing I just set down two minutes ago
• Where is the blood coming from?

My wife's favorite game is 'Let's go tell Ben that something isn't working at the worst possible time.' She's undefeated. Most of those games go to extra innings.

My favorite game is to see just how many pencils and tape measures I can throw at a project.

My favorite is going to Lowes, getting absolutely everything I need, paying, exiting the store, leaving the parking lot, and realizing right as I get on the highway I forgot the most important thing I went there for. Every. Time.

Rule Number 32 said:

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My favorite is going to Lowes, getting absolutely everything I need, paying, exiting the store, leaving the parking lot, and realizing right as I get on the highway I forgot the most important thing I went there for. Every. Time.

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Use a Notes app on your phone to make a shopping list. I do that because I've done the same thing a time or ten. I have (undiagnosed and unmedicated) ADD, combined with advancing age so I need all the help I can get. The trick is remembering to make a shopping list to follow.

WHERE THE %$#^ IS THE 18MM WRENCH THAT WAS JUST ON THIS BENCH RIGHT HERE YESTERDAY!!!! %$#^!@!!

But, yes, i do the new tool game, too.

I do all of my own work so when I need a $500 tool to save me 150/hr on labor, I just go buy what I need.

Col. Steve Austin said:

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Rule Number 32 said:

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My favorite is going to Lowes, getting absolutely everything I need, paying, exiting the store, leaving the parking lot, and realizing right as I get on the highway I forgot the most important thing I went there for. Every. Time.

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Use a Notes app on your phone to make a shopping list. I do that because I've done the same thing a time or ten. I have (undiagnosed and unmedicated) ADD, combined with advancing age so I need all the help I can get. The trick is remembering to make a shopping list to follow.

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You also have to remember to look at the list once you get to the store. I'm guilty of missing that step often.

My game…knowing I should take notes or pictures while disassembling something I'm trying to fix to make re-assembly easier but always talk myself into skipping as I'm sure "I'll remember " what goes where

Despite the fact I'm the kind of guy that would forget my head if it wasn't attached

Col. Steve Austin said:

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Rule Number 32 said:

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My favorite is going to Lowes, getting absolutely everything I need, paying, exiting the store, leaving the parking lot, and realizing right as I get on the highway I forgot the most important thing I went there for. Every. Time.

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Use a Notes app on your phone to make a shopping list. I do that because I've done the same thing a time or ten. I have (undiagnosed and unmedicated) ADD, combined with advancing age so I need all the help I can get. The trick is remembering to make a shopping list to follow.

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Or write everything down in a notebook to make sure you don't forget the info, then leave said notebook at the store.

O\U on how many trips I'll make to the store for that one project.

Are you even trying if you do it in less than three?

My grandfather used to blame my grandmother for moving his things such that he couldn't find them. After she passed, he still misplaced things but could no longer blame her.

Col. Steve Austin said:

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Rule Number 32 said:

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My favorite is going to Lowes, getting absolutely everything I need, paying, exiting the store, leaving the parking lot, and realizing right as I get on the highway I forgot the most important thing I went there for. Every. Time.

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Use a Notes app on your phone to make a shopping list. I do that because I've done the same thing a time or ten. I have (undiagnosed and unmedicated) ADD, combined with advancing age so I need all the help I can get. The trick is remembering to make a shopping list to follow.

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I use the back of a junk mail envelope to make an incomplete list necessitating multiple trips as my father did, and his father before him.

The pencil game, i.e. where the hell is it? I would measure inside mark the piece I was cutting or write down the measurement and go outside to the saw to mark and cut but the pencil is inside. Go inside get pencil go back outside to cut set pencil down, go back inside and install that piece and measure the next one but now the pencil is outside.

I started trying to avoid this by leaving one inside and one outside but inevitably both would end up either inside or outside.

Ryan the Temp said:

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Tree Hugger said:

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The pencil game, i.e. where the hell is it? I would measure inside mark the piece I was cutting or write down the measurement and go outside to the saw to mark and cut but the pencil is inside. Go inside get pencil go back outside to cut set pencil down, go back inside and install that piece and measure the next one but now the pencil is outside.

I started trying to avoid this by leaving one inside and one outside but inevitably both would end up either inside or outside.

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I do this with tape measures. Suddenly I have 2 or 3 tape measures next to the saw.

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It's why I own six box cutters.

Claude! said:

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Col. Steve Austin said:

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Rule Number 32 said:

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My favorite is going to Lowes, getting absolutely everything I need, paying, exiting the store, leaving the parking lot, and realizing right as I get on the highway I forgot the most important thing I went there for. Every. Time.

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Use a Notes app on your phone to make a shopping list. I do that because I've done the same thing a time or ten. I have (undiagnosed and unmedicated) ADD, combined with advancing age so I need all the help I can get. The trick is remembering to make a shopping list to follow.

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I use the back of a junk mail envelope to make an incomplete list necessitating multiple trips as my father did, and his father before him.

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This whole thread is hilarious but this is spot on

I like to climb 8 foot ladders and drop 1/2" or 1" 10-32 screws to see how far they will bounce. We also like to play hide and seek together.

How long can I hold my breath while sweeping up dust while a dust mask is 5' away.

How about the game of "find the missing socket"? Never fails after everything has been cleaned up and put away there's still that ONE socket that is missing!

My (least) favorite:

"Yay! I have all day Saturday to work on XYZ. I'll get so much done!"
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4pm Saturday: Not a thing done because of other people, interruptions, etc.

javajaws said:

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How about the game of "find the missing socket"? Never fails after everything has been cleaned up and put away there's still that ONE socket that is missing!

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And it's always 10mm.

Not knowing which size part I will need but I end up in the store/online shopping anyway, so I end up buying multiple sizes to avoid the dreaded "return trip", only to accumulate bags of stuff I don't end up needing because I procrastinate doing the return counter trip until the return deadline has passed.

Member that kids game Chutes and Ladders? Saturday I played 5hits and Ladders. I've got a partially torn rotator cuff so overhead work has to be done with 1.5 arms, or you go one step higher on the ladder and fold yourself in half to lower the reach.

Climb the ladder to remove old fan. LADDER!
Canopy snaps to lock on, no screws. And it's stuck. 5HIT!
Go get hammer and flathead to tap loose. LADDER!
In the two years he lived in this room, Stepkid never once cleaned the fan. First bonk liberated the canopy and 2 years of schmutz. 5HIT!
Start undoing fan and the cordless screwdriver said patooey and spit the bit and extension into the trash bag. LADDER!! And 5HIT!!!
By the time the new light was up it was 26-14 5hits over Ladders.

Played Hide and Seek again too. Two extension handles, four roller handles, rollers for days, mixer attachment, drill, bucket of paint, and 26 pan liners. Where the F did the roller pan go? One HD trip later I seriously considered chaining the MF to the handrail on the stairs.