My dad has a coffee mug that says “Measure twice, cut once.” Sage advice, advice I wish I had listened to this weekend. I needed a shelving unit to go in my laundry room. I eyeballed the space and then went to the store and picked up a shelving unit that I figured would fit.

As I’m sure you’ve already guessed, no, it didn’t fit. I missed it by about 2 inches. Sigh. I could return the shelving unit, but I’m probably just going to turn it another direction that it will fit in. Which is why I didn’t bother to measure, since there are 2 directions I could have fit the unit in. Still, I wish it fit in the way I wanted it to.

Learn from my mistakes, Shakhammerers! Measure, measure, measure!