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Originally Posted by freebeard
99% is the only underwater % listed.
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How many statistics do you remember from random articles that you read years ago?
The steel door had the best ROI. Everything was less than 99%.
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Hersbird, thanks for pointing out the labor factor. The first two times that one of my cars needed a new timing belt I paid $1,000 each, but I did it myself with the Accord, replaced the other belts, hoses, and everything else that people suggested, and paid something like $250 - $300.
"Yeah, but if you figure out all of the time that it took, if you just spent that same time working at McDonald's..."
At $10 an hour I would have needed to work 65 - 70 hours to pay a mechanic to do less work than I did. I am a terrible repairman, but it took me way less than that.
The other argument is that my time is worth more than $10 an hour. I earn far more than that, but have far fewer clients than I want. I do not have any idea why they have not found me clients even though I keep asking. We got a new occupational therapist up here a few months back and she still only has three clients. She probably wants ten or twenty.
I have plenty of time to work on things. Buying the necessary tools is almost cheaper than paying a professional.