January 2021 – Durfee Newsletter

Posted on January 3, 2021 by webmaster

We are probably like the rest of you to be happy to say goodbye to 2020.

Well, we had our first big snow but it won’t be the last. Don’t forget to visit to get all of your winter provisions.

People seem to like a little story

I had a customer tell me recently “I’m not handy”. That certainly got me to thinking. I’m sure that there are people that don’t have the eye hand coordination to do small project but I can’t imagine that applies to too many people. It seems to me it is more because people are unfamiliar with tools and with how to repair things.

It reminded me of a friend of mine that got divorced a while ago. She realized that it would save her a lot of money if she did the repairs on her house herself. I admired her persistence. What was great was that she always asked for advice but wanted to learn for herself so she would be capable of doing more. I recall her doing house painting, landscaping, plumbing, and furniture repair.

I guess I thought of my friend when the customer said “I’m not handy”. I think that just about everybody can be handy with a little help. Certainly, if you come into Durfee’s we’d be happy to help you out. It’s likely that we have done the job you want to do on our own homes with the products that we sell so we can give you some good advice.

Stuff we did this month

My niece bought a house recently. Paul’s a great dad and, of course, is helping fix the place up. The house had a couple of pretty large vent holes in it where there used to be some heating equipment that is no longer necessary. That meant that Paul had to cut some plywood and shingles to size so that you wouldn’t even notice there was a hole there. Then he needed to match the paint.

A combination of a table saw, a hand saw, and some paint supplies from Durfee’s solved the problem.

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