Photography And Half-Thoughts By Mitchell Hegman

...because some of it is pretty and some of it is not.

Friday, January 10, 2025

Extra Screws

In the last few weeks, I have assembled three towel racks and installed three new lights in our bathroom. Interestingly, the towel racks and lights all included extra screws in their hardware packets.

I’m going to push ahead and call that a pretty good idea. After all, it’s pretty much universally better to have more screws than not enough. But it got me wondering: are the manufacturers protecting themselves from mistakes on their end during packing, or do they assume Joe Purchaser (me, in this case) might misplace a screw?

—Mitchell Hegman

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