Ouch... What have we made here???
In the next decade or so, as the value of money keeps dropping, and the price of goods goes up, how can hedge against inflation? Working on developing your DIY skills, will help tremendously! We kind of live in a throw it out culture where the things in our home that are cheap, both in quality and in price, have become dispensable, and we can simply buy new instead of fixing it.
Things weren't always like that when I was a child I remember very well that my grandfather was always tinkering, and repairing things around the house. he had his own little laboratory in the attic. For me it was a wonderland of toys that were forbidden to touch by small humans. there were glass jars full of nuts and bolts, tiny electronic components, wires of all sorts, and nicely arranged tools to do everything with. The smell that always brings my back to this attic, is that of a hot glue gun working. I love that smell! I loved ,my grandfather a lot!
My little brother is coming to live with us for a couple of months so that he can save some money, so he came to paint the room he is going to stay in. The outlet covers are from the 70's and they have kind of turned that yellow that old plastic tends to turn to with age. Sure those things are still pretty cheap, and there were only four, but we didn't want to leave the house to go to the store, so we found another way to freshen them up.
I had some white spray paint in the garage which gave them a fresh new look. The funny thing is what happened to the piece of styrofoam my brother used to spray paint onto. Did you see that? It melted everything around the outlet covers!!! It's pretty cool, though it shows how horrible the stuff must be... I'm glad we didn't make plastic explosives!!!! Next time I'll make sure he uses one of the many available pieces of scrap wood we have laying around.
So get out there, fine tune your DIY skills because you never know when you'll need them!
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