The Never-Ending Stream of Home Repairs

The joys of homeownership: tens of thousands of dollars fixing stuff.

Matthew Maniaci
Thing a Day
Published in
3 min readMay 24, 2023

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A red brick wall.
Photo by Hayden Mills on Unsplash

When we bought our house many years ago now, there were some things that needed to be fixed in the intermediate future. Some tuckpointing would need to be done at some point, the HVAC was getting on in age, and a handful of other things were likely to go off in five to ten years.

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Matthew Maniaci
Thing a Day

I write about everything from my experience with mental illness to politics to philosophy. Much of my so-called "wisdom" is from Tumblr dot com. He/him/his.