Insert You’re goddamned right meme
As I’ve gotten older and wiser I’m starting to make calls instead of trips to Lowe’s or reading up on how to DIY. Hell, I’ve rebuilt my AC systems on my older cars. Compressor went out on my Mustang a couple weeks ago. I paid the dealership to fix it. Yea, it sucked knowing I could have done it. But I would have hurt for two weeks after crawling under the car and swapping it out. $1800
Just paid the Honda dealership $600 to change the plugs, $300 for new brake fluid and $300 trans fluid in my wife’s Pilot while they were doing the timing belt. I’ve done all of this in the past.
I would have spent two days doing this shit, have to build a cradle type under hood creeper to access the plugs and again, hurt for a week or two after to recover.
Paid a guy last year to build new steps on the front of the house. He did it in two days. Would have taken me two weeks at the pace I work at.
Don’t get me wrong, I’ll still do minor stuff like oil changes or smaller projects around the home. Pressure washed the dock last week. Yep, just over a week to recover.
You know what makes it easier to spend the money?
Watching my wife earn it and the shove $100 bills into a slot machine like it’s Monopoly money. I’ve decided if she can drop $10k on a cruise to wherever or a $1000 weekend at a casino, I don’t need to be killing myself anymore.