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TikToker Finds Love After Buying a Man at Home Depot
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TikToker Finds Love After Buying a Man at Home Depot

This is one way to find a stud.

A TikTok creator went shopping for a man at her local Home Depot – finding the perfect solution to her messy love life in the hardware aisle.

Katelyn Ansari, in a now viral videoapproached a man – who she described as cute and handsome – shopping at a home improvement store and asked his advice on how to hang a large picture frame that didn’t actually exist.

The TikToker posted a video of herself approaching a man in the hardware aisle at Home Depot. tiktok/@katelynnansari

“Can you help me find the things I need,” she asked the stranger, who then led her down an aisle and handed her a hook and thread.

The video, titled “I Left Dating Apps to Find Myself a Blue-Collar Worker at Home Depot,” has since generated nearly 6 million views on TikTok.

The flirty ploy ended with them exchanging numbers, texting and their first date, according to follow-up videos she posted on her platform.

“It seemed like a modern-day fairy tale,” Ansari told people.

“He made me start believing in love and romance again.”

Ansari gave up dating apps after several bad experiences and turned to her local hardware store in Texas to find an eligible single the old-fashioned way – in person – crediting the “Home Depot Encounters” Trend for giving him the idea, People reported.

Over the past year, single women turned to the social platform to brag about their success in the screwdriver and appliance aisles and film themselves “looking confused” as they hope to find a potential soul mate.

“I really didn’t think it would work,” she said.

The video, titled “I Left Dating Apps to Find Myself a Blue-Collar Worker at Home Depot,” has since generated nearly 6 million views on TikTok. tiktok/@katelynnansari
The flirty ploy ended with them exchanging numbers, texting and their first date, according to follow-up videos she posted on her platform. tiktok/@katelynnansari

“I’ve been single for about two years and was dating casually here and there, but legitimately every guy I met on Bumble or Hinge was a no-go.”

Ansari confirmed that the pair had since become a couple, People reported, adding that she kept his courtship private until she knew “he was the man he claimed to be.”

She launched their online relationship hard last month.