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In an attempt to beautify our home, I sought to hang an antique all-velvet patchwork quilt above the couch. My newlywed husband had an errand which would bring him close to a store which I was certain would have the requisite curtain rod and finials to match the quilt...so off he went. Upon his return, I was completely delighted to see that he'd chosen absolutely ideal finials. Not only were they the antique bronze finish which I had hoped for, they were reminiscent of the geometrical pattern in the quilt. Very cool. Overzealous as I was to hang the quilt, I set about measuring, drilling, leveling... and before too long (but not before introducing a couple of erroneous drill holes to our otherwise perfect wall), the deed was done, and I proceeded to clean up the packaging remnants of our new rod and finials. In the process, I vacillated about whether to keep a couple of nuts that had held the hardware within the packaging... "Yes", "No", "Yes", ok, finally I thought: "No, we don't need to add more junk to the junk drawer", and into the trash it went.
Fast forward a couple days, and my husband was on the porch playing with the wooden handle to one of our more diminutive grills which, alas, was missing a nut. "Hmmm..." said I. "There was an extra nut with the finials that I think will do the trick." "No" said he... "...it won't fit." "I think it might" said I. So off I went to "dumpster dive" in the kitchen, and surfaced a few minutes later, nut in hand. "Wow!" said he, "I can't believe that worked!" "It was nut'n!" thought I...