A quick success story

Earlier this year I put up some plastic door stoppers around the house. We purchased them probably 2 years ago, but it was one of those things that I never got around to because I would rather watch tv than stick little plastic discs against the wall. Who wouldn't? It took literally ten minutes to hang all of them, and today I was rewarded for my meager effort.

The door leading from our garage to our laundry room has big hinges that make the door automatically swing shut behind you as you walk in. But lately I could tell that the hinges weren't feeling as springy as usual, and then today they failed altogether. So when Chez went to push open the door while holding Eliza in her arms, she shoved the door hard, expecting to meet some resistance from the formerly stingy door hinges. Instead the door swung freely and WHAM! It hit the wall great force. But instead of driving a doorknob-sized hole into the drywall, she just put a small dent in the plastic door stopper, which performed admirably in the face of such a tremendous impact.

So giving up tv just saved me from the time and expense of having to patch a hole in our drywall. This has been well worth it already!