I think that interestingly, once you can afford to have someone do something for you, it is often (even usually) cheaper to do it that way than to do it yoursel

I think that interestingly, once you can afford to have someone do something for you, it is often (even usually) cheaper to do it that way than to do it yourself. If it is something you don't know how to do, then you are paying for the education in some way, either in your own time to learn how to do it, or in the lower quality that usually comes out of future value somehow (either resale value or it-needs-to-be-done-again cost). If it's something you already know how to do, then you're paying yourself for your own time rather than someone else paying you for that time. Of course there are lots of trade offs and balances to strike, but as a rule the bigger the project is the less I think I can save money by doing it myself.