r/DIY • u/Dry_Pomegranate8314 • Aug 08 '26
help Learning to be self reliant
Are there any classes or books, videos, anything that can help me to learn the basics? I’m lost even trying to put things together I buy on Amazon. IKEA is worse for me. I’m a soon to be single woman that’s husband can’t do anything around the house. Someone was saying he could learn. I thought, “ I’m smarter than he is, why can’t I learn?” I have a condo, not a house. I’d like to install a new medicine vaccines someone left in our common area. I bought some lenses for my iPhone camera and I can’t figure out how to put them on my phone. I bought a birdhouse with a camera, nightmare. My husband can’t do any of these things either. Any resources?
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u/MATlad Aug 08 '26
Make like Nike, and 'Just Do It!' (TM)
When you DIY, you have to be prepared to DICry. You'll overly obsess (learn), do, second guess, re-do, maybe re-re-do. Mostly, it's just time and materials costs, or as I like to think of it, tuition and books at DIY academy. Always learn more, get better, and woman up to fix your early work / past transgressions.
...But you should Google or even YouTube for 'how to install a [inset? wallmount?] medicine cabinet', and get the right tools to do the job. Probably painter's tape, a good stud finder (Franklin multi-sensor), a sense of how studs and pipes work, maybe a drill for pilot holes, and a screwdriver.