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2026-05-24 - Home Depot Phase 1 Shopping Cart

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Home Depot Phase 1 Shopping Cart

Loaded HD orange flatbed cart at register with blue plastic boxes, breakers, GFCIs, and tools

Photo Details

  • Date: May 24, 2026
  • Time: 7:01 PM EDT
  • Phase: Phase 1 — 120V rough-in procurement
  • Location: Home Depot Mt Pleasant — checkout area, near self-checkout / customer service
  • Subject: Loaded orange flatbed cart at the end of the trip, immediately before the 7:09 PM register transaction

Description

End-of-trip “haul” photo showing the loaded Home Depot orange flatbed cart immediately before checkout (~7:09 PM register stamp per receipt). Captures the bulk of the Phase 1 small-parts buy: blue plastic new-work boxes (1-gang Cantex and 2-gang Carlon dominating the lower basket), metal octagons with brackets, the GFCI 4-packs (smaller white boxes near top), Klein hand tools (linesman pliers + Kurve stripper in their orange Klein packaging, upper left), the breaker carton, tape rolls, and the Empire torpedo levels.

Visible Elements

  • Lower basket — boxes: Heavy mix of blue 1-gang Cantex and 2-gang Carlon plastic new-work boxes (18 + 16 = 34 plastic boxes total per receipt), plus a few of the Southwire 4” octagon F-bracket boxes
  • Upper basket — devices & tools:
    • 4-pack 20A GFCI outlet cartons (2 × white boxes — total 8 GFCIs)
    • Klein hand-tool packaging (orange/black) for the 8” angled head linesman pliers and Klein-Kurve wire stripper
    • 3M Scotch Super 33+ electrical tape 3-pack
    • 3M Temflex electrical tape (3 single rolls)
    • Eaton BR 20A 1-pole breaker cartons (10 breakers — likely bundled near top of basket)
    • Empire 9” torpedo level (2)
    • Empire 7” aluminum rafter square
    • 12 white nylon TR duplex outlets
    • 1-gang switch wallplate 10-packs (3)
    • 6 toggle switches single-pole + 6 three-way (in shrink wrap)
    • Cable staples 175-pack (3/4” plastic)

Receipt Cross-Reference

Full itemized line-by-line breakdown is in the 2026-05-24 HD receipt — see HD Phase 1 Receipt PDF. Cart totals: 530.38 with tax on AMEX ending 3006.

Why This Photo

Visual reference for the scale of a single big-box electrical run. Useful when the future-reader (or a future Phase X shopping trip) wants to estimate roughly how much cart space the next bulk-parts run will need. Also serves as a quick “did everything actually make it home” check against the receipt — the photo and the PDF together establish what physically left the store.

Notes on What’s NOT in the Cart

Per the 120V Shopping List day-of plan, these items were intentionally deferred and are NOT visible in the cart:

  • Smurf tube (3/4” ENT conduit) + adapters + couplings + LV brackets — saved for Menards Mt Pleasant trip (cheaper there per BOM comparison: ~$37 saved on ENT coils)
  • Steel nail plates ×30 — deferred to Menards (1.23, ~$21 saved)
  • BR120GF 1-pole 20A GFCI breaker — still pending; HD Mt Pleasant did not have it on the shelf
  • 50’ 12/3 NM-B yellow — still pending; was OOS at HD per the BOM cart status
  • Klein D213-9NE 9” linesman, Klein 11055 basic stripper, Klein D2000-28 dikes, Klein NCVT-3P, Klein 32500, Estwing E16C — partial apprentice kit; got the angled-head pliers (8”) and Klein-Kurve stripper substitutes this trip, rest of the kit deferred
  • 20A WR outlets for lift bay (×2) — deferred (Menards better price)
  • 40 standard TR outlets — only 12 pulled this trip from in-store stock; remaining 28 to come from Menards back-order or HD delivery 3-packs

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