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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Jeffrey_Friedl on 2026-02-07 10:06:28+00:00.
Just a minor fuckup, but I needed some shelf corner brackets for a project, and needed them to be magnetic. Got some thick stainless-steel brackets, and guess what, it seems that high-quality stainless steel is not magnetic.
Who would have known? (Answer: someone smarter than I was prior to today.)
Now I must head back to the store and actually test for magnetism before I buy.
Not incidentally, I also fucked up by having my fuckup be something I could tell concisely in less than 750 characters, so to compound my embarrassment I have to add this long-winded sentence so that my post meets the minimum-length requirements of this TIFU subreddit. Fuck, still need 31 characters.
TL;DR: bought steel brackets assuming they'd be magnetic, but they're not.