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Unless the situation is pretty dire, we suspect most of you wouldn't go next door and ask a neighbor to stop mowing his lawn and take out your kid's appendix; ditto with writing you a new will. Doctors and lawyers go through extensive training for a reason – and, for that matter, so do professional plumbers and electricians. If and when we
do attempt home repairs, we certainly want advice and instructions from an experienced person (preferably professional) instead of someone who... well, someone who's obviously never done the job. You know, someone like
Sally Odum, who we caught pretending to know "
How to install a new thermostat" at the site called Catalogs.com (formerly WhoWhatWhenWhereWhyHowWhatever or something like that).
We get the definite impression Sally's never installed a new thermostat herself (at best, perhaps she was around while her "hubby"¹ installed one) based on some of her dumber misinformation. She begins by informing her readers that,