Hold up, wait. You tried a coffee cup stamp for tracking? I didn't even know those existed. That is some next level dedication right there. I can just picture those sad smudges turning into a brown mess over a few days. Yeah no, I would have rage quit that system by day three and just used a pen on the wall. A highlighter is genius though, way more satisfying to swipe a big line across the page.

You mentioned the spine cracked after 3 months, which feels like a delayed failure rather than an initial one. Were you mixing the wheat paste yourself from flour and water, or did you use a premade powder? I'm wondering if the ratio of paste to water or adding too much methyl cellulose could have caused it to dry brittle over time.

Totally agree with you there. I tried working clay soil in my backyard one year and it was like wrestling with wet concrete every time I dug a hole. Ended up just doing a bunch of small raised beds instead and it saved me so much headache.

Is it just me or has everything gotten flimsier since 2020 though? Like I bought a new garden hose last year and the plastic connector cracked on the second use. My old one from 2015 is still fine. Same with my car's interior, the knobs and vents feel way cheaper than my 2019 model. I bet these companies switched to lighter materials to save on shipping costs or something, but the whole threading thing on your new reg would freak me out too. That's the last thing you want failing 60 feet down.

That night and day difference after a decade is wild. You ever run into a filter that was so stuck even the 3-jaw pliers wouldn't budge it, or was it just the strap wrench that was the real problem all along?