My buddy Mike bought one of those kits for his Cummins, had the thrust bearing fail at 60 mph on the interstate. Cost him triple that just to fix the damage.

That notebook in the glovebox trick worked for me too.

Three dollars saved on adhesive and now you've got a cracked monitor and a hole in your drywall, thats about how most of my cheap shortcuts end up. It's funny how we'll spend hours finding a coupon but then skip spending five bucks on the thing that actually holds our stuff up.

Concrete can actually sweat moisture that traps against brick over time, @karen_shah56.

That reminds me of a job where I spent three hours chasing a squeak that turned out to be a loose nail in the subfloor that I'd missed because it was under a baseboard heater. I pulled up four rows of laminate before I found it and felt like an idiot. Now I always double check every single fastener near the walls before anything goes down.