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Gift Wrap Your Message

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HeatingHelp Administrator Posts: 715
edited November 27 in THE MAIN WALL
Gift Wrap Your Message

Before I retired from speaking in 2016, I spent decades giving talks about heating systems across the U.S., Canada, Europe and even in the Caribbean. Several times, I even did steam-heating seminars in Hawaii. Life’s funny that way.

Read the full story here

ratioMad Dog_2

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  • Larry Weingarten
    Larry Weingarten Member Posts: 3,989

    Dan, This is pure gold!! So many messages need to be gift wrapped. 🎁 Thanks!

    Yours, Larry

  • EdTheHeaterMan
    EdTheHeaterMan Member Posts: 11,491

    I must have gone to your seminars too late, or at the wrong season. This is the first time I heard this story. I am going to copy the link to one of my older posts so I can find it later. I love this!

    Edward Young Retired

    After you make that expensive repair and you still have the same problem, What will you check next?

  • Mad Dog_2
    Mad Dog_2 Member Posts: 8,369

    Always thinking outside the box...Mad Dog

    Consulting by Mad Dog & Matt Jr.
  • EdTheHeaterMan
    EdTheHeaterMan Member Posts: 11,491

    Another thought about gift wrapping that will keep the younger children in line:

    Gift wrap a bunch of empty boxes and place them under the Christmas tree.

    When a child becomes unruly this month, take an empty box and throw it in the fire place and let them watch it burn.

    Stay tuned for more tips on child rearing from edtheheaterman.

    Edward Young Retired

    After you make that expensive repair and you still have the same problem, What will you check next?

    ratioCLamb
  • DanHolohan
    DanHolohan Member, Moderator, Administrator Posts: 16,681

    Thanks, guys. So glad you enjoyed it.

    Retired and loving it.
  • retiredguy
    retiredguy Member Posts: 1,081

    @EdTheHeaterMan, I have to disagree with you about throwing the wrapped box into the fire place and have your unruly child watch it burn. When I was a child my parents would tell the kids that the unruly child would get a lump of coal from Santa Claus for Christmas. Well, one year, I got a lump of coal and only a lump of coal, nothing else, for Christmas. That "lump of coal" had a profound impact on my life and my association with my parents. They thought it was a learning lesson, I did not and still don't at 81 years old.

  • Intplm.
    Intplm. Member Posts: 2,798

    A great story. I also couldn't help but feel the relationship from one generation to the next. I'll explain.

    @Erin Holohan Haskell Opens the circulator as her, after Christmas, Christmas present. 30 years later, she purchases the business from her father@DanHolohan, continuing the "circulation." The entire story hits home in so many ways.

    Thank you for sharing / posting.

    Erin Holohan HaskellEdTheHeaterMan
  • DanHolohan
    DanHolohan Member, Moderator, Administrator Posts: 16,681

    That’s my favorite part. Thanks.

    Retired and loving it.
    Intplm.
  • Erin Holohan Haskell
    Erin Holohan Haskell Member, Moderator, Administrator Posts: 2,362
    https://forum.heatinghelp.com/discussion/comment/1874303#Comment_1874303

    I have fond memories of this. It was a B&G Series 100, as red as Santa's sleigh. 🎄

    President
    HeatingHelp.com

    rick in AlaskaIntplm.EdTheHeaterMan

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