I breezed into the kitchen and made a passing comment to Vicki about the electric mixer that was sitting on our kitchen bench.
It’s one of those tiny NutriBullet beasts that spins like 1000 ninjas in a hurricane.
And makes the “perfect” smoothie… so they say.
She mentioned that one of the kids was having a hard time using it and perhaps it wasn’t working properly.
You could almost see the valves glow and the gears whirr into action in our resident Mr Fixit’s head.
And, before there were any eye rolls to be had…
…the lounge was strewn with all manner of parts…
The “delightful” smells of electrical contact cleaner wafted into every nook and cranny.
And the melodic cursings of a frustrated dude who just couldn’t get a grip to unwind the “stupid thing”… echoed down the hall.
So…
I got it to bits. Cleaned it. Tested everything… Seemed OK.
Then managed to get it back together enough to power it up.
Aaand…
Nothing.
…
Just then I noticed something a little odd about the container that fitted into the device.
One, two… ahhh!
We’re missing the third plastic tab from the side.
These are the same plastic tabs — tiny wee things — that are used to push down the microswitches and safely turn on the motor.
So, you know what this meant?
Yep…
It was in fact working the entire time! 😭
All I had to do was rotate the container 120 degrees so that the two switches were pushed to “on”.
Then… off it went!
It was a super-simple fix to a practically non-existent problem…
…that had become a vastly overcomplicated exercise in frustration.
ALL because I first looked for a complex solution when it was something SO simple all along.
…
And our freelancing business lesson for today… Keep it simple stupid!
Or you may unexpectedly end up having to buy a replacement kitchen appliance.
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