My wife recently passed away. I used my time off to build her a giant bookshelf
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Re: My wife recently passed away. I used my time off to build her a giant bookshelf
#2What a story...
Re: My wife recently passed away. I used my time off to build her a giant bookshelf
#3Nice to see Reddit as a good place. For all the darkness, online, there can also be light.
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#4> at the ripe old age of 30
Fuck me...
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#5It seems so fulfilling, being able to make such beautiful things. But also a bit expensive eh... to get the woodworking skills (presumably by taking classes at a technical college?), the equipment, and the time involved.
If any folks here are capable of doing this stuff, would you please share details of your journey, I feel inspired to learn some of this myself. Did you feel it was all worth it, what would you do differently if starting over again?
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#6Nice to see Reddit as a good place. For all the darkness, online, there can also be light.
As I say with all these massive social networks: they have tons of users, and there is all kinds of people in the world, so it's bound to be a lot of interesting and useful and inspiring and enlightening content in them. That still doesn't say much about the social network itself.
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#7> at the ripe old age of 30 Fuck me...
This is a reminder for what we should all keep in mind... Things happen. Work for tomorrow but remember today. And record your journey.
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#8Memento mori.
Do the things you really want to, need to or should do. One day, it's going to be too late.
Re: My wife recently passed away. I used my time off to build her a giant bookshelf
#9It seems so fulfilling, being able to make such beautiful things. But also a bit expensive eh... to get the woodworking skills (presumably by taking classes at a technical college?), the equipment, and the time involved. If any folks here are capable of doing this stuff, would you please share details of your journey, I feel inspired to learn some of this myself. Did you feel it was all worth it, what would you do di…
I always feel very humbled when I read stories about things that makers make.
As someone with absolutely no skills in woodworking, metalworking, or anything of the sort, it is completely awesome (in the traditional sense of the word) and seemingly so far out of my potential.
Re: My wife recently passed away. I used my time off to build her a giant bookshelf
#10It seems so fulfilling, being able to make such beautiful things. But also a bit expensive eh... to get the woodworking skills (presumably by taking classes at a technical college?), the equipment, and the time involved. If any folks here are capable of doing this stuff, would you please share details of your journey, I feel inspired to learn some of this myself. Did you feel it was all worth it, what would you do di…
I wouldn't say I'm good at woodworking, but just like with programming you can go read about it or watch youtube tutorials.
I've built a few simple things with a $20 power drill and a cheap hand saw.