Oh man, this hits hard! A friend of mine found her mom's old recipe box after she passed and she was sobbing because there was this one card for "Sunday Meatloaf" with a handwritten note in the margins saying "John's favorite." She never made it, not once, because she thought it looked boring and she had all these fancy Pinterest recipes saved. She told me she felt like she let her mom down somehow, like she was saving it for some perfect Sunday that never came. She finally made it last month for her dad's birthday and said it was the most comforting thing she'd ever eaten, but also kind of sad because she'd wasted all those years... So I guess guilt comes with those forgotten recipe cards for sure.

Wait, you had cracks showing up in just two months with mesh tape on a ceiling job? That's wild, I've never seen that happen that fast before! I always figured mesh was the stronger stuff since it's literally got fiberglass in it, but now I'm rethinking my whole approach to taping.

Hold on, I gotta push back a bit here. I've been cranking washing machine bolts down with my impact driver on full power for over a decade and I've never snapped one or had a machine leak or wobble. If you're following the manufacturer's torque spec to the letter you might end up with a loose drum that walks itself apart after a few heavy loads (especially on those Samsung models). I think people get too scared of stripping things and end up under-tightening, which causes more problems down the line. Maybe your bolt was just cheap or had a defect, you know?

Old timers also crashed planes by ignoring torque specs so maybe follow the manual.

Three months of wasted spreads and stickers taught me the same lesson @wade780. I went all out with a traveler's notebook kit with all the inserts and color coded washi tape. It looked amazing on Instagram but I never wrote in it. The pressure to make it perfect killed everything. Now I just grab a cheap spiral notebook from the grocery store and scribble whatever comes to mind. Sometimes it's just a sentence about how I dropped my phone in a puddle. Other times I'll write two pages about a dream I had. The messier and less planned it is, the more I actually want to do it. And that's really what matters I guess.