Home Depot / Lowe’s employees
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Home Depot is the contractor choice today. But I too liked the old locals like Lumbermens.
And Ernst Malmo -
Stopped drinking?WestlinnDuck said:
Nice post. Honest and full of actual facts. I'm assuming you stopped drinking and using the meth. Keep up the good work. We are rooting for your continued sobriety.dflea said:My dads had an account at Lumbermen's back in the day. I would go down there, tell them what I wanted at the counter, they'd give me a slip of paper, and I'd pull through the warehouse and start loading up sacks of cement, lengths of galvanized pipe, rolls of pvc pipe, pieces of rebar - and they'd just get out of the way and check the slip on the way out. You could also buy a 1/4 pound, or a whole box of 16 penny vinyl coated nails, or drywall screws, or roofing nails - not some fucking little box that either has way more or way less than you need in there.
They didn't have 78 employees, but the half dozen they had on the floor all knew their asses from a hole in the ground. Henry Bacon also used to be a pretty good place to go. They had a store in Bellevue, and I'd see donkeys in BMWs pulling out of there with a sheet of plywood on the roof. Yeah dude - you'll make it home fine! lol
I like Ace, but it's a tough market to exist in right now. I hope they can hang in there with the big box stores. Lowe's and Home Depot are both way fucking behind what Lumbermen's and Henry Bacon were. Low prices, sure, but the inventory is largely garbage. If I brought shit like that home back in the day, my old man would have said "Fuck that shit - take it back and get a better one!" He's struggling with the way the world is today. Like Race is.
No dude, I just got started! 12:01 -
So the meth is the problem?dflea said:
Stopped drinking?WestlinnDuck said:
Nice post. Honest and full of actual facts. I'm assuming you stopped drinking and using the meth. Keep up the good work. We are rooting for your continued sobriety.dflea said:My dads had an account at Lumbermen's back in the day. I would go down there, tell them what I wanted at the counter, they'd give me a slip of paper, and I'd pull through the warehouse and start loading up sacks of cement, lengths of galvanized pipe, rolls of pvc pipe, pieces of rebar - and they'd just get out of the way and check the slip on the way out. You could also buy a 1/4 pound, or a whole box of 16 penny vinyl coated nails, or drywall screws, or roofing nails - not some fucking little box that either has way more or way less than you need in there.
They didn't have 78 employees, but the half dozen they had on the floor all knew their asses from a hole in the ground. Henry Bacon also used to be a pretty good place to go. They had a store in Bellevue, and I'd see donkeys in BMWs pulling out of there with a sheet of plywood on the roof. Yeah dude - you'll make it home fine! lol
I like Ace, but it's a tough market to exist in right now. I hope they can hang in there with the big box stores. Lowe's and Home Depot are both way fucking behind what Lumbermen's and Henry Bacon were. Low prices, sure, but the inventory is largely garbage. If I brought shit like that home back in the day, my old man would have said "Fuck that shit - take it back and get a better one!" He's struggling with the way the world is today. Like Race is.
No dude, I just got started! 12:01 -
No - you being a complete fucking faggot is the problem. Go fuck yourself.WestlinnDuck said:
So the meth is the problem?dflea said:
Stopped drinking?WestlinnDuck said:
Nice post. Honest and full of actual facts. I'm assuming you stopped drinking and using the meth. Keep up the good work. We are rooting for your continued sobriety.dflea said:My dads had an account at Lumbermen's back in the day. I would go down there, tell them what I wanted at the counter, they'd give me a slip of paper, and I'd pull through the warehouse and start loading up sacks of cement, lengths of galvanized pipe, rolls of pvc pipe, pieces of rebar - and they'd just get out of the way and check the slip on the way out. You could also buy a 1/4 pound, or a whole box of 16 penny vinyl coated nails, or drywall screws, or roofing nails - not some fucking little box that either has way more or way less than you need in there.
They didn't have 78 employees, but the half dozen they had on the floor all knew their asses from a hole in the ground. Henry Bacon also used to be a pretty good place to go. They had a store in Bellevue, and I'd see donkeys in BMWs pulling out of there with a sheet of plywood on the roof. Yeah dude - you'll make it home fine! lol
I like Ace, but it's a tough market to exist in right now. I hope they can hang in there with the big box stores. Lowe's and Home Depot are both way fucking behind what Lumbermen's and Henry Bacon were. Low prices, sure, but the inventory is largely garbage. If I brought shit like that home back in the day, my old man would have said "Fuck that shit - take it back and get a better one!" He's struggling with the way the world is today. Like Race is.
No dude, I just got started! 12:01 -
Ah, a relapse. Too bad. A mind is a terrible thing to waste and other vague regretful sayings. Apparently, old thoughts about hardware stores focuses the mind - and then poof.dflea said:
No - you being a complete fucking faggot is the problem. Go fuck yourself.WestlinnDuck said:
So the meth is the problem?dflea said:
Stopped drinking?WestlinnDuck said:
Nice post. Honest and full of actual facts. I'm assuming you stopped drinking and using the meth. Keep up the good work. We are rooting for your continued sobriety.dflea said:My dads had an account at Lumbermen's back in the day. I would go down there, tell them what I wanted at the counter, they'd give me a slip of paper, and I'd pull through the warehouse and start loading up sacks of cement, lengths of galvanized pipe, rolls of pvc pipe, pieces of rebar - and they'd just get out of the way and check the slip on the way out. You could also buy a 1/4 pound, or a whole box of 16 penny vinyl coated nails, or drywall screws, or roofing nails - not some fucking little box that either has way more or way less than you need in there.
They didn't have 78 employees, but the half dozen they had on the floor all knew their asses from a hole in the ground. Henry Bacon also used to be a pretty good place to go. They had a store in Bellevue, and I'd see donkeys in BMWs pulling out of there with a sheet of plywood on the roof. Yeah dude - you'll make it home fine! lol
I like Ace, but it's a tough market to exist in right now. I hope they can hang in there with the big box stores. Lowe's and Home Depot are both way fucking behind what Lumbermen's and Henry Bacon were. Low prices, sure, but the inventory is largely garbage. If I brought shit like that home back in the day, my old man would have said "Fuck that shit - take it back and get a better one!" He's struggling with the way the world is today. Like Race is.
No dude, I just got started! 12:01 -
True story. My financial advisor sold me on Home Depot 12 years ago. I mentioned I always went to Lowe’s and he told me HD makes their money from the contractors, not from pinheads like me. It’s been one of my top performers with an annualized return of 26.48%.Swaye said:Lowe's is where dudes who don't actually know how to use the tools they are buying go. Home Depot is for legit trades dudes. True Value and Ace are for OGs. Fight me.
Oh, and I started shopping at HD. -
Yeah Lowe's, regrettably, basically decided to go the "suburban housewife and husband who still can't hang a ceiling fan" route many years ago. I will admit there have been a couple of Kobalt tools that came out that I had to go to Lowe's for, and no shit the Home and Garden at Lowe's beats HD, at least here, but generally yeah it's a bunch of donkey's who couldn't poor piss out of a boot with the directions on the heel. Ace and Tractor Supply are great because the people who work there actually know a plumbers wrench from their ass, but they just don't have a ton of stuff. I miss having 84 Lumber close. They closed the only one in 3 counties. Only 20% of dudes still have any skills and 50% of the remaining are fags who love looking at paint colors with their taskmaster wife at the Lowe's Design Center (spending a day there is one step removed from being a performer in a Pride Parade). So, it's tough sledding for the places like Lumbermans, and Valley Electric, and Tractor Supply, and good old 84.USMChawk said:
True story. My financial advisor sold me on Home Depot 12 years ago. I mentioned I always went to Lowe’s and he told me HD makes their money from the contractors, not from pinheads like me. It’s been one of my top performers with an annualized return of 26.48%.Swaye said:Lowe's is where dudes who don't actually know how to use the tools they are buying go. Home Depot is for legit trades dudes. True Value and Ace are for OGs. Fight me.
Oh, and I started shopping at HD.
I used to love going with my Dad to 84 as a kid early on a Saturday morning and buying piles of building materials in bulk for whatever project he was going to kill me with the rest of the weekend. It was always a surprise as to what we would be doing, so I could determine how fucked I was based on what we were buying - same system @dflea describes above just carry around a slip with your order for pick up at loading later. If we stopped at the PVC or galvanized rack I knew I would be digging. If we stopped at the bricks or rocks I knew I was doing a combo of hauling and digging. If we stopped at the shingles, I knew I was totally fucked. -
Pretty sure that 84 Lumber sponsored John Daley back in the day
They had a PGA tour stop too -
lmaoSwaye said:
Yeah Lowe's, regrettably, basically decided to go the "suburban housewife and husband who still can't hang a ceiling fan" route many years ago. I will admit there have been a couple of Kobalt tools that came out that I had to go to Lowe's for, and no shit the Home and Garden at Lowe's beats HD, at least here, but generally yeah it's a bunch of donkey's who couldn't poor piss out of a boot with the directions on the heel. Ace and Tractor Supply are great because the people who work there actually know a plumbers wrench from their ass, but they just don't have a ton of stuff. I miss having 84 Lumber close. They closed the only one in 3 counties. Only 20% of dudes still have any skills and 50% of the remaining are fags who love looking at paint colors with their taskmaster wife at the Lowe's Design Center (spending a day there is one step removed from being a performer in a Pride Parade). So, it's tough sledding for the places like Lumbermans, and Valley Electric, and Tractor Supply, and good old 84.USMChawk said:
True story. My financial advisor sold me on Home Depot 12 years ago. I mentioned I always went to Lowe’s and he told me HD makes their money from the contractors, not from pinheads like me. It’s been one of my top performers with an annualized return of 26.48%.Swaye said:Lowe's is where dudes who don't actually know how to use the tools they are buying go. Home Depot is for legit trades dudes. True Value and Ace are for OGs. Fight me.
Oh, and I started shopping at HD.
I used to love going with my Dad to 84 as a kid early on a Saturday morning and buying piles of building materials in bulk for whatever project he was going to kill me with the rest of the weekend. It was always a surprise as to what we would be doing, so I could determine how fucked I was based on what we were buying - same system @dflea describes above just carry around a slip with your order for pick up at loading later. If we stopped at the PVC or galvanized rack I knew I would be digging. If we stopped at the bricks or rocks I knew I was doing a combo of hauling and digging. If we stopped at the shingles, I knew I was totally fucked.
Fucking fiberglass insulation for me. Because guess who the asshole in the attic was going to be? -
I was like fuck, will we ever run out of outbuildings he wants to reroof?dflea said:
lmaoSwaye said:
Yeah Lowe's, regrettably, basically decided to go the "suburban housewife and husband who still can't hang a ceiling fan" route many years ago. I will admit there have been a couple of Kobalt tools that came out that I had to go to Lowe's for, and no shit the Home and Garden at Lowe's beats HD, at least here, but generally yeah it's a bunch of donkey's who couldn't poor piss out of a boot with the directions on the heel. Ace and Tractor Supply are great because the people who work there actually know a plumbers wrench from their ass, but they just don't have a ton of stuff. I miss having 84 Lumber close. They closed the only one in 3 counties. Only 20% of dudes still have any skills and 50% of the remaining are fags who love looking at paint colors with their taskmaster wife at the Lowe's Design Center (spending a day there is one step removed from being a performer in a Pride Parade). So, it's tough sledding for the places like Lumbermans, and Valley Electric, and Tractor Supply, and good old 84.USMChawk said:
True story. My financial advisor sold me on Home Depot 12 years ago. I mentioned I always went to Lowe’s and he told me HD makes their money from the contractors, not from pinheads like me. It’s been one of my top performers with an annualized return of 26.48%.Swaye said:Lowe's is where dudes who don't actually know how to use the tools they are buying go. Home Depot is for legit trades dudes. True Value and Ace are for OGs. Fight me.
Oh, and I started shopping at HD.
I used to love going with my Dad to 84 as a kid early on a Saturday morning and buying piles of building materials in bulk for whatever project he was going to kill me with the rest of the weekend. It was always a surprise as to what we would be doing, so I could determine how fucked I was based on what we were buying - same system @dflea describes above just carry around a slip with your order for pick up at loading later. If we stopped at the PVC or galvanized rack I knew I would be digging. If we stopped at the bricks or rocks I knew I was doing a combo of hauling and digging. If we stopped at the shingles, I knew I was totally fucked.
Fucking fiberglass insulation for me. Because guess who the asshole in the attic was going to be?
"Hey son, haul that huge fucking roll of tar paper up here on that rickety ass ladder from 1952!"
Outer voice: Sure Dad!
Inner voice: It's a good day to die.
