Let's make a "learn from each other " post on what NOT to do ~ !!!

I bet our vast mistakes could fill a book !
I'll keep mine short till I think of more...

** I bought clear plastic, diamond shaped drops to jazz up a totem. I mistakenly put some irridized ones in with the clear - the irrid. ones turned YELLOW ! ugh ...........

** I used clear liquid nails to glue glass globs to a bowling ball . Don't use it ! Those globs popped off like popcorn . The little neighbor kids saw all these pretty little glass things laying in my grass & thought my yard had "treasures" buried in it !

** I made a totem - I used a ceramic bowl for the base . It looked awesome , but it must have had a little chip in it . It sucked up moisture and it crumbled. gggrrrr...

~*~*~ Next ~*~*~

be careful where you place any glass ornaments.

hugs Carmen

forget to click the handle on the silicone caulk gun and had half of wasted...in one sitting...didn't know any better :D

broke a few clay pots trying to make the drain hole bigger :D so they'd slide over re-bar for tipsy pots!

you know there's plenty more!!!
kudzu

I let my husband plant one of those shade garden deals from a catalog and didn't watch where he planted anything. He buried hens and chicks, thinking they were like bulbs.... he put 4' tall globe thistle in the front of the bed, etc.

I've had neighborhood kids roll my gazing balls down the block shedding blue shards everywhere.

I've learned that someone in my neighborhood reaaally likes red--- they steal everything I put out that's red.

I rushed making a gazing ball, and didn't let the gems fully set up before moving and had sticky silicone covered marbles allllll over my car.

I bought hanging planters from Big Lots to put on lamp bases... only I didn't check to see if the bottoms were sturdy enough. Once I bolted them down and filled them with dirt, the entire thing bent and spilled the soil everywhere.

I planted an invasive rose that can't be killed and it has managed to tunnel under a sidewalk and sprout on the other side.
I swear it will ask for blood one of these years.

I'm sure there are a thousand more little mistakes, but I tend to block them out of my memory.

...and NO, it didn't even make my car smell nice!

Most recent: When cutting small diameter pieces of wood with a sawsall that is on the ground, don't let go of that last little piece. It will pop up and hit you in the face.

Don't spray paint near dh's new car on a windy day. (Unless you've just discovered why your vision-see below - never materialized.)

Don't let dh plant the shrubs without double checking or the boring but nice native witch hazel could end up in center stage and the japanese dogwood in the hedgerow where it doesn't get enough sun to bloom. You may not discover the mistake until they are well established.

Don't use Mac glue, which is AWESOME inside, on totems.

Don't saw a large horizontal branch off the apple tree with a chainsaw while standing on a step ladder. I just happened to glance out the kitchen window as the falling branch swept the ladder and dh down. Fortunately no harm done! (But he was much younger then.)

If you live in a house with a gently slanted roof that is accessible from the upstairs porch, don't let the cats out on there. They will run up the roof to the top and scream their heads off alarming the neighbors for fun, even tho they are perfectly capeble of running back down to the porch, as they will do when they get bored.

Sorry, I strayed from junk related.

There's a lot more as well as several of the ones other people mentioned. I just try not to remember usually.

Kathy

So .. always check which way your bulbs are pointed.