Saw a diving engineer talk about this once - he said the last 10 feet of chain take like 75% of the wear because of constant salt water, sand, and current action. Makes sense when you think about it, that section never lifts clear of the seabed like the rest does. Heard it's why some big operators just flip their chains end for end every couple years to even out the damage.

My buddy had a whole wall of vintage board games displayed like a store. Perfect condition. Alphabetical order. Nobody touched them for two years. His girlfriend just started pulling boxes down and leaving them scattered on the coffee table. Now people actually want to play a round of Sorry or whatever they find buried in the pile. He said it felt weird at first seeing Monopoly on the floor but now the wall just looks lived in instead of sterile.

Hold on, those Christmas lights from 2003 probably still work if you just replace the fuse. I had a strand from 2004 that kept going out, and I finally figured out the little glass fuse in the plug was blown. But your moldy flower pot situation is NEXT LEVEL, man. That's a whole ecosystem you've got going in there. At least you're getting some free bird entertainment, I guess. Might want to check if that mold is the kind that glows in the dark though, could be a free light source.

@the_logan had me hunting blind for 20 minutes.

300 dollars for a basic tube of caulk and some spray foam? @oscar390 that's where I stopped reading. I mean come on, a roll of window seal tape is like 15 bucks at the hardware store. I've seen guys charge 500 bucks to "seal" a crawlspace with a couple cans of Great Stuff and it's still drafty. Not saying sealing never works, but there's a difference between a real fix and just slapping goop on everything.