Hit 100 drawer slides installed this week and it messed with my head

I've been keeping a tally in my shop notebook for fun, nothing official. This week I finished up a kitchen in Austin and when I added up the numbers, I was at exactly 100 drawer slides since January. That felt like a lot until I did the math on the soft-close ones I've replaced in my own house, which is only 3. The real surprise was how many are the same model, Blum 563H, and I never noticed the pattern until I saw the count. Has anyone else ever tracked something simple like that and gotten weirdly thrown off by the total?

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wyattmitchell16d ago

Wait, you replaced 3 soft close slides in your own house already? That is wild to me because those things are supposed to last forever. I put the same Blum 563H in my own kitchen 6 years ago and have not touched a single one, so either you got a bad batch or somebody in your house is slamming drawers like it is a sport. But the part that really got me is you not seeing the pattern until the count hit 100. That means you grabbed the same box off the shelf over and over on autopilot and your brain just filed it away as "drawer slide" with no name. Makes me wonder how many other things I do on repeat without ever clocking it.

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