My mom's garage shelves from 1985 finally gave out last week

She had this old plywood setup my dad built way back when. We found a crack in the wood and all her Christmas bins came crashing down. She just smiled and said "it was a good 40 year run." Made me think about how we treat storage stuff like it's disposable now. I'm helping her build new ones this weekend but we're using metal brackets this time. Anyone else have old DIY storage that lasted way longer than it should have?

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hayden_martin295mo ago

My dad built a workbench in our garage back in '87 with nothing but 2x4s and some scrap particle board. That thing held up through three moves and countless projects until we finally took it apart last year to redo the whole garage. The wood was still solid but the screws were all rusted out, had to use a sawzall on some of them. We ended up remaking it with galvanized brackets and pressure treated lumber this time, should last even longer. Its kind of nice building something that feels like it will outlast you. What are you using for the shelves this time around?

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joseph_hunt5mo ago

@hayden_martin29 your dad knew what he was doing, particle board or not, that's still a good run.

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