Comments on: the beer can time capsule https://www.thehandmadehome.net/the-beer-can-time-capsule/ The Handmade Home is a full service rehab, construction and design firm with an exclusive product line, at The Handmade Home Studio. Fri, 19 Apr 2019 15:56:01 +0000 hourly 1 By: k https://www.thehandmadehome.net/the-beer-can-time-capsule/#comment-739927 http://www.thehandmadehome.net?p=24079#comment-739927 so where was the leak coming from?

]]> By: Deborah Daneliz Rivera https://www.thehandmadehome.net/the-beer-can-time-capsule/#comment-735494 http://www.thehandmadehome.net?p=24079#comment-735494 Omg I know home repairs are stressful, but your post is so funny! I love your letter in the wall.

]]> By: Erin @ whalingcitycottage https://www.thehandmadehome.net/the-beer-can-time-capsule/#comment-526175 http://www.thehandmadehome.net?p=24079#comment-526175 Hilarious post! This made my day. The laughing, not your bathroom trauma. 🙂 To throw another log on your heeby-jeeby fire….I was bit on the face by a house centipede this past winter. While sleeping. In our bed. Yeah, thanks 124-year old house.

]]> By: Christina https://www.thehandmadehome.net/the-beer-can-time-capsule/#comment-450287 http://www.thehandmadehome.net?p=24079#comment-450287 Oddly enough when my parents were doing renovations on their house, the house I grew up in, an older home 1940s-ish build they found a beer can as well, or maybe it was a bottle. They also found a random soda bottle (a discontinued brand) and a shoe to one of my dolls. In the wall. Which can only mean one thing. Something large enough to carry said shoe, carried it into the wall from the room where my tiny childhood body slept. Creepy. I feel you on the hibbies.

]]> By: Shar https://www.thehandmadehome.net/the-beer-can-time-capsule/#comment-233251 http://www.thehandmadehome.net?p=24079#comment-233251 Oh my! You have to laugh or you’ll cry! We’ve all been there in some way, shape or form. At our last house (an older home), we came home from vacation to find a dead mouse floating in our upstairs toilet bowl. A friend of mine with a new home, decided to replace her first floor carpeting 7 years in, because the furniture all rocked around as the floors didn’t seem level. When they took the builder-grade carpet up, they found drink cups, straws & fast food bags everywhere (minus the food, thankfully!). Someone had flattened everything down to the “just lumpy” stage. Of course the builder was long gone by then….

]]> By: Mark https://www.thehandmadehome.net/the-beer-can-time-capsule/#comment-231197 http://www.thehandmadehome.net?p=24079#comment-231197 Ugh on the mold!

But the worst (so far) discovery from the pits of this old house was discovering that a past owner had clearly had a drinking problem! A sea of empty liquor bottles were secreted in our crawl space. LOL

Couldn’t have been much of a secret when we mentioned it to an elderly neighbor, she knew exactly who had put them there, too. Ha! 😉

]]> By: Jeanne https://www.thehandmadehome.net/the-beer-can-time-capsule/#comment-229756 http://www.thehandmadehome.net?p=24079#comment-229756 Good grief, “When You Give a Mouse a Cookie” reference is spot-on! Living in a cottage built in the late 1890s, I can sympathize. We are anxiously awaiting the arrival of a new shower-stall and so I fear that we may encounter some of what you did when we begin the demo/re-install process. We have an old metal stall now that is rusted out in all 4 corners and there is NO doubt mold spores are growing behind it. I KNOW there are all sorts of creepy/crawly things on the walls behind and I can’t wait to break out the dusters and Kilz before we erect the new shower kit. And since nothing, I mean nothing, is easy in our house, we could be in for a comical DIY project (and when I say nothing is easy, I mean even what you would think would be simple like putting in a wrapping paper storage system from elfa, which basically requires no tools becomes a project!) My husband had to take the track to work to cut it down to fit our non-standard size closet door, no two doors in our house are the same size! Argh. Can’t wait to see how the new bathroom turns out, best of luck Ashley and Jamin (and be glad it’s not the only bathroom in your house, as ours is, with me, my husband and our 3 girls!)

]]> By: Sharon P https://www.thehandmadehome.net/the-beer-can-time-capsule/#comment-229584 http://www.thehandmadehome.net?p=24079#comment-229584 I’m sitting at my desk laughing out loud! No, really, belly-laughing out loud! Thanks for sharing your overactive imagination and humor! I hope don’t have to tear out anymore walls or floors. No, wait! That’s not entirely true because I’d want to see what
else you would find that would set off your anxiety-ridden OCD that would make us laugh. Seriously, I look forward to your posts. Thanks for keeping it real.

]]> By: Kitty https://www.thehandmadehome.net/the-beer-can-time-capsule/#comment-229540 http://www.thehandmadehome.net?p=24079#comment-229540 Oh my gosh. I totally feel for you. I too am a total germ-o-freak. Once upon a time when we lived in a tiny old house in New Jersey (story for another day) there was a plumbing “problem”. I had raw sewage come up through my kitchen drain. Aacckkk!! Apparently, the original clay pipes had tree roots growing through them, AAANNNDD back in the day they didn’t install back flow prevention valves. That was over 15 years ago and I still get the heebie jeebies just thinking about it. To say that I got hysterical would be an understatement. I must have gone through 5 gallons of bleach!
I’m sure your stress-o-meter is pegged to the max. I’ll be thinking about you!!! Hopefully your trauma drama will be over soon. 🙂

]]> By: Jackie Lee https://www.thehandmadehome.net/the-beer-can-time-capsule/#comment-229404 http://www.thehandmadehome.net?p=24079#comment-229404 Best read EVER!!!! I ended up with tears rolling down my cheeks! The image of bats attacking while you ran away only to trip down the stairs with a toothbrush stuck sideways in your mouth and Legos embedded in your feet sprang into my mind and I was done! My imagination when coupled with your dilemma just went wild, my apologies!
Bravo and good luck!

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