Mazel tov, Sheryl!
I know the dread of getting rid of things that could easily hold other things.
My sister! I should be able to convince myself I don't need ALL the egg cartons though. I probably have 50. I probably need zero. The use for them in the back of my mind, btw, is for sprouting seeds. They are biodegradable, I can just plant the whole thing once the sprout is . . . sprouted!
I don't even mean to keep cardboard boxes I have just been slow to get them broken down and out to the recycling. For quite a while we weren't supposed to put them in the bin, they had to be flattened and cut down to particular dimensions and stacked into cubes and tied with string and left next to the bin to be picked up. That was all way too hard to keep up, but I also couldn't just throw away something that could be recycled. Now they can go in the bin, but I have a backlog that will take a while to all get shifted.
And people have broken down in tears over many, many windows. There are windows that aren't square. There windows with many bracket holes drilled over the years, none of which quite match with your brackets but keep your screws from getting a good grip.
I wouldn't recommend nails, though. They'll pull out eventually.
Thank you for all of that! I may try again.
I have been told that you can wedge epoxy putty into old screw holes and put the new screws right into that without even letting it dry. I haven't actually tried it yet, but I have the putty. The guy at the hardware store recommended coating the screws with WD-40 if you want to be able to get them out again later.
I don't have old screw holes, more's the pity. The previous brackets were on the inside part of the window that got removed. Which also means my old shades are too wide. I bought some new, but not all new. Wah.
Well, yay someone else taking care of it, of not today.
And I do feel I need to say - those little round tins that TJ's chocolate comes in? I'm pretty sure I really do need a zillion of those.
I am a horrible mother. I dared to meet Mac's flight with frozen yogurt. You know like the worst thing ever.
I have been told that you can wedge epoxy putty into old screw holes and put the new screws right into that without even letting it dry.
That would probably be better than the traditional method I use -- toothpicks and glue.
I've used a lot of toothpicks and glue! Works wonders for stripped holes. I've used both, but I always have toothpicks and wood glue handy.
Toothpicks was the first thing I was going to try but I was out of toothpicks.
