Making the wrong decisions sucks more.
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00:00Have you ever had to make a difficult decision and you get so overwhelmed that you do absolutely nothing?
00:03I have!
00:04But then I have to remember that I'm an adult, and I adulted.
00:06And this is how panic decisions are made.
00:08Welcome to this tragic episode of I Made the Wrong Panic Decision.
00:11Here's the thing, I bought this dresser as part of a set to flip,
00:13and last week I flipped the matching lowboy.
00:15Now I have to decide what to do with this one.
00:16Morally, my heart is telling me to keep them together.
00:18Financially, my wallet is telling me to do what will make me the most money.
00:20And creatively, my brain wants me to get a little crazy with it.
00:22So what do I do?
00:24Break some stuff!
00:25That usually gives me clarity.
00:26And after hitting some things with a hammer, I've made my decision.
00:31We're going to match it!
00:35I said we, because I'm assigning you 50% of the blame for not successfully stopping me from doing this.
00:39But it's happening, so let's get rid of anything that might hurt us.
00:42Including things that hurt my eyes.
00:43Can someone please tell me why the 1900s were plagued with this handle?
00:46Could we not have thought of anything else?
00:48I mean, really, it took 2,000 years to think of any other handle shape?
00:51That's crazy.
00:51But at least we finally progressed.
00:53And now these handles will be moving on to my secret stash of handles that I'll probably never use.
00:57Logically, I know I'll never use them.
00:58But I did inherit a little bit of hoarding, so...
01:01Wow, look at that blank slate!
01:02I know it's chaos, but everybody needs a little chaos.
01:04You know, just a little bump to remind you that the flame's still burning in there.
01:07And unfortunately, as an adult, we also have to deal with our manic decisions.
01:10Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
01:15And clean up our message.
01:16Honestly, I don't prefer flipping taller dressers.
01:18First, because they don't sell as well as low dressers.
01:20But also, I'm not tall enough.
01:21I'm at the age, realistically, where everything I do is a potential liability.
01:24You learn that when you start paying for your own health insurance.
01:26Turns out, paying giant companies a bunch of money to stay alive is kind of a bummer.
01:30But you gotta do what you gotta do sometimes, so I'm risking it for the biscuit.
01:33Which I just feel like summarizes what it feels like to work for yourself.
01:35It is hard making decisions all by yourself.
01:37Especially when they involve money.
01:38And especially when you make wrong ones.
01:40And it feels like the world's gonna end and you're a dumb, stupid idiot.
01:42But that's business, baby.
01:44It's all a game.
01:45You just gotta keep playing.
01:46Unfortunately, sometimes the game plays you.
01:48And no matter what decision you make, you still look like a fool.
01:50It's honestly hard to know how to make decisions.
01:52Sometimes you just have to wait for the sign.
01:54Like for example, my sign this time was buying too much half dowel trim for my last flip.
01:57So I could avoid making two trips to the store.
01:59But it was way too much and now I'm too anxious to return it.
02:01So I obviously took that as the stars wanted me to match the set.
02:04And I'm not gonna disobey the stars.
02:05That's crazy.
02:06Now before anyone tells me it's not hard to return things, just go do it.
02:09That logic does not work on me.
02:10I already tried that.
02:10Any better ideas?
02:11So until I get over my fear of returning things, the dowels will be doweling.
02:14But before I get a little crazy with the glue, I need to drill new holes for hardware.
02:17Which will be done with professionalism and precision.
02:19Dad, if you're watching this, feel free to tell me how precise and professional I am.
02:22And you're the proud father of the greatest child ever.
02:25And if you're not my dad, then I need you to just sit there
02:27and watch me drill the cleanest hole you've ever seen.
02:29Is it a lot of setup for a litty bitty hole?
02:31Absolutely.
02:32But it'll give you clean holes every time.
02:33So on the details, people.
02:35If we're not doing the most, then what are we doing?
02:37We're putting all the dowels on.
02:38Which honestly kind of lost its fun after the first tour.
02:41But the show must go on.
02:42And now for my second act, I'll make this filler disappear.
02:47As well as his skirt.
02:49That's it.
02:50Show's over.
02:50Clap now.
02:51I can't hear you.
02:52Are you clapping?
02:53Oh my god, are we still flipping this thing?
02:55That's exactly how I felt by the time I got to priming.
02:58At this point, I was kind of over.
03:00Since I already did this design on the matching low board,
03:01I already knew how much work it was going to be.
03:03But then it started to really feel like work.
03:05You know, kind of boring.
03:06Monotonous.
03:07A lot of repeated steps over and over again.
03:09Usually that doesn't bother me as much.
03:11I am a recovering lazy person.
03:13Because I'm always excited to see my final design.
03:15Pause for the toxic chemicals.
03:16But since I already knew what my design was going to look like,
03:19I just wanted the chaos to end.
03:20And I'm sure you do too.
03:21So here are the final results.
03:23Wow.
03:24Looks pretty good as a set, doesn't it?
03:26And that's how I listed them on Facebook Marketplace too.
03:28And for the price of $1,150, they could have stayed together.
03:31But here's the problem.
03:32I played myself.
03:32Because I do always offer the option to sell them separately.
03:35But joke's on me.
03:35Because that's exactly what happened with this set.
03:37The low boy dresser sold by itself.
03:39So instead of $1,150, I only made $675.
03:42And now I have this tall boy all by itself.
03:44That I didn't even want to make look like this in the first place.
03:46Even though it does look really good.
03:47But like I said, it's harder to sell tall boys by themselves.
03:50So if anyone wants this thing, let me know.
03:51It's $575.
03:52But if that's out of budget for you, I'll do $574.
03:54Take it or leave it.