Rant: Took me 3 months to fix a toilet flapper that was 50 cents

My toilet kept running and I spent 12 weekends watching YouTube videos and replacing parts before I noticed the chain was 2 links too long. I must have bought 4 different flappers and a whole new fill valve for nothing. Has anyone else sunk way too much time into a simple home repair that just needed a pair of scissors?

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ivanlewis4mo ago

Man I feel this in my soul. Spent a whole weekend once trying to figure out why my dishwasher wasn't draining, replaced the pump and everything, just to find a plastic tab from a takeout lid stuck in the hose.

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juliagonzalez4mo ago

Oh goodness, that's frustrating. It's almost like appliances have a secret sense of humor about where they hide things.

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