Interesting about the interior doors not being standard sizes — our home was built ~1950 and I’d like to replace the doors eventually, but now you’ve got me wondering whether the openings are compatible as-is.

I tried mailing checks to the credit union. They “disappeared” for three weeks! On the day that I had started to call the several companies that had written checks to ask them to stop payment, the CU magically found two of them; next day the third surfaced. One of them was from AdSense, which has no customer service that I’ve been able to find and no way to ask for a stop payment. You have to tell them the check was lost in the mail, which is was not, and then they will send a new check, but it’ll be two months before you see it. I had endorsed it and sent it to the CU; obviously, if it cleared after AdSense had sent a new check (which, as it develops, it certainly would have!), Google would have concluded that I was trying to scam them and canceled my AdSense account.

And in the too little, too late department – my dad always told us to never hang stuff on interior doors, as the hingest aren’t built to withstand the added weight. That includes all those nifty over-the-door hangars, sorters, towel racks, etc.

We have a houseful of interior & exterior doors that are not standard sizes, so I feel your pain on that issue.

From reading your posts over the last few months, may I suggest putting up a notice at the college that you need help with minor repairs around the house? Fixing a minor leaky faucet, checking a balky closet door, etc., shouldn’t be $$$$ issues, & I’ll bet there are students who’d like to pick up a few bucks. You might even be able to find a dog trainer that way.