I guess when I think of DIY, I think of things like reupholstering furniture, or redesigning a room. For me though, I’m more of a DIY repair person.
Living on a teacher’s salary doesn’t give you a lot of disposable income. Generally speaking, when you take your car to a shop, the cost of labor is generally three times the cost of the parts themselves. So the repair jobs that I think I can take myself, I do.
The biggest auto repair job I’ve probably ever done was replacing brakes on my car. I’ve also swapped out batteries, changed my oil, rotated tires, replaced an alternator. I’ve done some repair work in my home as well: fixing my dryer, fixing my dishwasher, fixing my toilet, replacing a garbage disposal. I’ve done a little bit of stuff with plumbing, but electrical is really my kryptonite.
I guess none of this is really really big stuff. In fact, a lot of it, you can probably find instructions for on YouTube. That’s the thing that gets me. When he was younger, my old man didn’t have the money to pay for repairs, so he learned to do stuff himself. Only he did it without the Internet. Back in his day, the old man would have to take stuff apart, very carefully, and remember how to put it back together. Replacing broken parts was a little bit of a crapshoot as well.
God bless the internet.
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