Today I... spent the better part of 10 hours, $150, and 4 trips to Lowes to
FINALLY fix my wax ring issue. Started as "I think I'll change the wax ring in my toilet today" because I could smell sewer coming out of the toilet.
That led to replacing everything from the drain in the floor to the iron pipe in the basement to the sewer drain under the frikkin concrete!!! AHRRRGGGHHHHH!!!! What a day!@#$%
Basically I had this:



Ripped it all out...

... oh and don't forget that the flange on the bottom pipe from the concrete snapped off flush with the floor. I had no choice but to dig.

But then I built this:



100% leak free and now it's up to code
Oh, but wait there's more!!
So, I got all that done, then put the toilet back together, turn the water on in the basement..... My basement had been 500% dry up to this point..... SPLOOSSHHH!!!! I forgot to glue
ONE lousy PVC pipe together and wouldn't you know I got it right in the face!!! OOHHHHH I was mad! Not to mention wet.
Heheh well I glued that one single fitting back together, turned the water on, cleaned up and took a nice HOT shower!