Ignore them until my wife screams at me really loudly - then I’ll read them or peek at them outside her view on the sly - then when it all comes together I’ll end up telling her that I figured it out all by myself with my superior intuition and spatial / mechanical / technical skills.
Until she reads this answer, of course. Then I’m fucked.
@Pavlov OMG, I’ve always known you’ll eventually look at the fucking manual - I just scream at you to get the ball rolling. I don’t give two shakes of my ass in tight jeans that you think you can do it all yourself! I just want it done and done right the first time! Dummy.
Put them aside, then figure out how to work the thing without them. Then next time I have to take a shit, I read them cover-to-cover to make sure I am familiar with all the details. My bathroom is a place of learning.
It depends. Some products, I’ll thoroughly read. Some go straight into the recycle bin. Some get filled away “just in case I need it later”. Some, I’ll just go “WHAT THE FUCK?!”
Go fish the instructions out of the trash after I figure out I need the damn things anyway.
Nothing is ever as simple as it seems (or as simple as it ought to be.)
I just finished restoring this Garrett/RCA calculator/clock from the early 70s… the instructions were pretty much all printed on the bottom of the thing itself! No throwing that away… different time…
The real question is what do you do with the warranty card. I still find ones for shit I bought years ago when digging through the various stacks of papers scattered about which I’m too lazy to properly sort.
I’d say it depends. I like to know I have all the parts (if something’s complicated), and the page that has the list of them (with pictures) is the one I read. Then I carefully place everything that looks like it might be instructions in a file folder, properly labeled, and almost never go back to it.
The label is always the same, though. Random Manuals. I have five or six of those (most folders have several manuals in them).
Warranty cards and the like are good only as bookmarks. I admit I’ve read the manual for my garage door opener (more than once), because I can never remember how to change the combination.
Oh, wait. I’ve read the instructions for my Cisco router; sort of. Some things are just more entertaining than others. Yes, it’s the otherios.
Ignore them until my wife screams at me really loudly - then I’ll read them or peek at them outside her view on the sly - then when it all comes together I’ll end up telling her that I figured it out all by myself with my superior intuition and spatial / mechanical / technical skills.
Until she reads this answer, of course. Then I’m fucked.
@Pavlov Very clever, Mr. Bond.
@Pavlov OMG, I’ve always known you’ll eventually look at the fucking manual - I just scream at you to get the ball rolling. I don’t give two shakes of my ass in tight jeans that you think you can do it all yourself! I just want it done and done right the first time! Dummy.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@Pavlov @MrsPavlov You guys just made my day.
I’ll admit, I snorted a little.
@2many2no You get a chuckle; I get smacked in the arm . . .
@Pavlov
I think you are already fucked.
@Pavlov If Mama ain’t happy…
step 1. remove manual and other supplemental inserts
step 2. place in pile to be filed away in the manual file folders
step 3. look at the pile content that eventually they will be filed away, mehbe
@thismyusername Meh should sell one of those guillotine-style paper trimmers. Then you could scan the manuals.
@thismyusername
I follow your protocol right up to the “eventually”. There I would insert a “perhaps”.
@thismyusername That’s what I do with pretty much everything.
@Al_Coholic
I intend to ignore my
/giphy intentions
Put them aside, then figure out how to work the thing without them. Then next time I have to take a shit, I read them cover-to-cover to make sure I am familiar with all the details. My bathroom is a place of learning.
Never cared about instructions. Unless it’s something really specific, like replacing a monitor on a laptop. Or buying items at a grocery store.
It depends. Some products, I’ll thoroughly read. Some go straight into the recycle bin. Some get filled away “just in case I need it later”. Some, I’ll just go “WHAT THE FUCK?!”
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Go fish the instructions out of the trash after I figure out I need the damn things anyway.
Nothing is ever as simple as it seems (or as simple as it ought to be.)
I just finished restoring this Garrett/RCA calculator/clock from the early 70s… the instructions were pretty much all printed on the bottom of the thing itself! No throwing that away… different time…
The real question is what do you do with the warranty card. I still find ones for shit I bought years ago when digging through the various stacks of papers scattered about which I’m too lazy to properly sort.
Eat them.
Might save and read these.
@f00l ack, step 4 is cut off!!! What do i do if the red light over the door is illuminated?!?! Ack ack
All such instructions/manuals go in the same drawer in the kitchen. Have only had to check something in the drawer twice (in 11 years).
For assembly? Follow to the letter. After that? Throw it away. Throw it all away. All of it.
I bought a shredder and in an act of defiance shredded the manual first to make sure the shredder worked
/giphy shredding
I’d say it depends. I like to know I have all the parts (if something’s complicated), and the page that has the list of them (with pictures) is the one I read. Then I carefully place everything that looks like it might be instructions in a file folder, properly labeled, and almost never go back to it.
The label is always the same, though. Random Manuals. I have five or six of those (most folders have several manuals in them).
Warranty cards and the like are good only as bookmarks. I admit I’ve read the manual for my garage door opener (more than once), because I can never remember how to change the combination.
Oh, wait. I’ve read the instructions for my Cisco router; sort of. Some things are just more entertaining than others. Yes, it’s the other ios.
In the box with all the spare parts.
Break into a wild rage, destroy everything, order pizza, light the couch on fire, then file them away when the rage at being told what to do subsides.