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      16 hours ago

      Americans haven’t had garages for 30 years. They have on-site storage units. Some of which can fit a car.

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      17 hours ago

      They’ve got the showroom floor; it’s just for show.

      The tools always look completely unused, like the antique kitchen tools my mom hung on the wall for decoration.

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          12 hours ago

          Sweet, mine is proper. TIL my basement is also a proper garage.

          My grandpa was a high school shop teacher after serving in WWII, so I have an absolute gob of early power tools and, more importantly, a ton of manual tools. I love using the manual tools. They take for-fucking-ever, but they don’t intimidate me the way power tools do.

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              6 hours ago

              Did you come across a bunch of power tools where the cord screws in to the base, so it’s real easy to replace?

              Like the tools come full apart, that’s insane! They also probably had guides with them to fix them!

              Like I can probably still use those shock factories! I certainly do not -want- to use them, even though they almost certainly still work (other than maybe corrosion), but the documentation to repair them probably still exists and that’s amazing!!