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If you enjoy building things why not do it yourself while also saving money? My dad likes doing oil changes himself which I'd never do, but it doesn't occur to
by add-sub-mul-div 1y ago
If you enjoy building things why not do it yourself while also saving money?
My dad likes doing oil changes himself which I'd never do, but it doesn't occur to me to insult and question why a person has different values than I do.
- lazide 1y agoWell, or as many DIY’ers have figured out - ‘why would I buy that for $500 when I can spend $1500 and 3 weeks making it myself?’
- adocomplete 1y agoDepends on if you learn something while making yourself. The lesson itself could be worth 10x the monetary spend (in a positive and negative way).
- lazide 1y agoWell, and as I always told myself - it’s an investment in tools I’ll use again later, and eventually it’ll be cheaper to DIY myself. Which, at the point I was welding together solar panel mounts onto shipping containers was true. But maybe i could have asked myself ‘should I’ instead of ‘can I’ somewhere earlier in the process hah.