20 GENIUS Tricks Hardware Stores Used to Teach Every Customer for Free

Subscribe to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/@TheLostHandyman?sub_confirmation=1 👉 Start Saving Money By Fixing Everything Yourself Ebook: https://forgottenhandymansecrets.netlify.app/ In 1954, a boy walked into a hardware store on Walnut Street in Muncie, Indiana, holding the two halves of his mother's kitchen scissors. The old man behind the counter slid his coins back, reset the pivot, peened the rivet flat, put an edge on the blades — four minutes, no charge — and did the same for thirty years. There was a store like his in every town, and the men behind those counters weren't only selling nails. They were teaching. Here are twenty tricks the hardware stores gave away, back when teaching you was the whole point. Sources: https://www.familyhandyman.com/project/fix-sagging-or-sticking-doors/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_glue https://www.epa.gov/watersense/fix-leak-week