Had a set of Blum soft-closes last over 12 years in our kitchen with zero issues until the dampers finally gave out. What brand were you looking at in that walnut set?

Read somewhere that a master barber in Japan uses a chopstick for sectioning... makes you think how much we overcomplicate things. Nathan_davis is right though, the beauty industry just wants your wallet.

Same experience here. I ran the numbers on a few different tree planting programs and the math just doesn't hold up. They claim a sapling will absorb X tons of CO2 over 40 years, but that assumes it survives that long and doesn't get logged or burned down. Solar panels are boring but the output is right there in the data. The whole point of offsets is to actually offset something, not feel good about a picture of a forest.