No matter how handy you might consider yourself to be, DIY home projects are always an exercise in creativity, humility, and, of course, patience. Even the simplest of tasks can end up veering into disaster zone territory if you don’t have the necessary tools, skills, and tenacity, which is why the home pros at Angi sought to discover the most stressful DIY tasks that end up driving Americans to tears.
Per the report, “The least stressful jobs tend to come with a visible result you can step back and admire, but the most stressful tasks above offer no ongoing satisfaction since they involve mundane home features that you only notice when they go wrong.”
For more info about their findings, check out the full report here. Researchers determined the data by extracting tweets with “DIY,” keeping only the top 100 most populous U.S. cities with at least 50 tweets. They then compiled a list of specific tasks and ranked them accordingly based on the number of corresponding tweets, calculating the percentage of posts about a project that left the DIY-er stressed.
