Those "needs" will keep changing as the years roll on.
I just hope my wife doesn't sell things for what I "told her" I paid for them
There is nothing wrong with doing the math…in my case I get wrapped around the axles pretty easily…I usually make a DA when I get stuck, and to me where there is math available, that is sort of the easy part…that’s very quantifiable…putting a pricey on the incidentals and convenience and general use scenarios…well that is another thing as that usually comes with previous experience. Basically there is more than just the price of the implement or the rental fee…there is a total cost of ownership which includes storage and maintenance and then there is also likely use case scenarios and total time involved including transportation if aplicable. It’s not really as simple as the basic math. And we all have different situations. Good luck with your analysis.
Thank You for that. Hindsight is 20/20. I should have bought a Kubota back in 96, just bite the bullet and get one. The problem is money on hand and being "penny smart and pound foolish". The other part is getting old, I mean getting older. Keeping up with the Jones left me 30+ years ago....not saying I ever did, but the notion of "big.badder, faster" was never really a thing. I can't tell you my smile when picking up my 8200..... Kid in a candy store....
If the tally of funds spent for non-important, unused items make it easier to justify spending on implements how about discovering how much one spends on tobacco, alcohol, pizza or other items that destroy one's health? It's all just a game we fabricate to get us where we want to go with the least resistance.Another way to look at it…at least for me…if I go through the all the closets in the house and total up the price of just the shoes and boots that have not been worn in the past year, that’s more money right there than my tiller. Want to see the shoes / boots and raise me the sweaters…well then that covers a couple more attachments. Open the closets and do some cost justification there…I guarantee my occasional use implements make a lot more sense than some other stuff. To each there own really…sometimes priorities don’t allow everything at once or it simply doesn’t make sense. That’s ok too. Anytime I get wrapped around the axle about what a tool that know I am going to use will cost all I have to do is open the closet door, and that sort of nudges me to get what I have a plan to use more than once.is it an expensive hobby, yep. And I love every minute of it….i smile more on the tractor than I do at my desk at work.
When I had a 1500 sq/ft garden I did just that, borrowed a kubota and tiller first the go around then used my walk behind. I will be down to 200 sq/ft in the future.
So true!!!
Engineers I know are exact.....not prone to excitement. I understand marketing, or should I say "Little truth" in advertising, but I have not seen a website EVER put down a list that works.... then add the cost in and my problems (an I expect others) 101.
Nono…. I had some “friends” offer to knock me off so they could get my toys. My wife just looked at them, and said “why do you think I’d get rid of them?”
By this idea of tallying up cost on items not paid for (or at least retail price) I have a nice account because I have not paid for a hair cut since I was 20!!So true!!!
I make three Cortados every morning. If I were buying those drinks it would cost me around $12 a day or $4,380 per year (based on the cost at a coffee shop I frequent when I head East for work), and that doesn't include the cost of getting to/from the coffee shop. I invested a considerable amount of money in a coffee bean roaster, grinder and espresso machine over a year ago, but make a Cortado that I can't buy in terms of freshness and quality, and the cost is somewhere in the $0.65 per coffee range. The break even point was around the 15 month mark which was three months ago. In theory I'm saving at least $300 per month by not buying coffee at coffee shops.
I think it's a bit like reloading though. I don't work up handloads to save money. I do it to get the best out of the firearm and ammunition and probably shoot a lot more than I would if I were buying ammunition. Coffee is much the same. If I were buying coffee I probably wouldn't be having three every morning.
Me too. I spent $200 or so on a professional grade hair clipper about 20 years ago and I'm still using it. I cut my own hair every 2 weeks or so and the savings over the past 20 years has to be huge.
For a few years prior to buying a good clipper I used to buy the $25 variants at places like Walgreens, but they'd only last a year or less.
Couple months ago my wife said she didn’t know how she would keep everything up around the property if something happened to me. Told her to just find another guy, move him in, and have him do it. She said she was too old for that. Would require flirting, being nice, having patience; things she wasn’t really good with at this stage of life. I disagreed but left it at that.
And this is how I ended up with my tractor. Father in law had a bunch of clearing/scaping to do on the back of his property, but planned to do it at his own pace (he’s pushing 70) vs. working all day every day for a couple of weeks. For the time he had available to put in on doing that work between general house projects, and working part time after his second retirement rental costs for a small machine would’ve been about half the cost of a Bx. Once he finished with it I just took over the payments. Given the time frame this happened he probably could’ve made profit selling it because that was right around the time all of the supply chains were going crazy a year or so into the pandemic.
