OH MAN, ok but I gotta push back a little. You say you grabbed stuff cheap at church sales last month, but were those actually VINTAGE Pyrex or just newer stuff that looks old? Because I feel like the "deals" people brag about now are either scratched up pieces from the 90s or they just got lucky at one random sale. How many times have you actually found a full set of something pre-70s for under twenty bucks in the last year?

Swapped to a military surplus wool blanket and never looked back.

My dad used a mix of wood glue and sawdust to fix a broken table leg back in 2005, and that thing is still holding stronger than the original three legs combined. It's rough looking but I swear it outlasted the actual furniture glue he finally bought. Sometimes the janky fixes end up being the most permanent ones.

The Terraforming Mars rulebook is like 40 pages but somehow they hid the most important thing in a footnote-sized sentence on page 7. I had a friend quit the game entirely because he thought it was broken after missing that production phase order. It's almost like they want you to fail the first few times so you feel like you earned it when you finally get it right. But really it's just bad layout design and nobody wants to admit it.

Was the crimper from that Amazon brand that looks like Klein but isn't?