To ask for your ‘a stitch in time...’ stories?

[Totickleamockingbird]

Can I learn from your experiences of how you saved yourself from a hassle by taking a precaution in time or stopped something from getting worse?
I am sat here fuming, having spent about an hour on mending the sleeve of an expensive winter coat for DC. I could have spent about five minutes on it when I first noticed the broken thread but I kept putting it off.
So I thought I should ask for your experiences rather than learning things the hard way. The next winter coat I buy for any of the DCs is getting its sleeves and arm pits reinforced the day I buy it!

I do a lot of batch cooking on a Sunday's , when I first started doing it last year I always left all the washing up till I had finished and it would take me nearly as long to wash everything as it did to do the cooking .
So now I wash everything as soon as I am done with it , no putting it down for a minuet hour it gets washed right away.
I am not sure if it actually saves me time as it all still needs doing but it feels like it does so that'll do me

Ps no electric dish washer here .

Buttons. Whenever I get a new coat/jacket with buttons, I always take a minute to put a small coat of clear nail polish over the thread at the back of the button (as long as I can access it). That way, they always stay attached to the garment.

Jackdaw I like yours!

I used to sit smoking on a very wobbly bar stool in my garage (oh, the glamour). Spent half a year thinking "this stool is really wobbly now...I should probably do something, it feels like it's going to break".

It did break one day and I literally fell on my arse. It hurt. I have a new stool now.