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I more than paid for all my tools over the years (or I would have starved long ago)
the sad thing is today I have more money in the tooling than the machinery
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easy enough to do
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(02-03-2017, 09:43 PM)MsNomer Wrote: How do you put a value on enjoyment, peace, pride, satisfaction, etc?
This is what I was going to say or along those lines.
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I think I've paid for my tools with projects around the house and things made for other people. Should mention that my wife bought many of my tools as birthday, Christmas, or anniversary presents. Of course that keeps my cost point down. Two other hobbies I used to break even were trapping and photography. They both turned over enough $$ to support the equipment needed plus a little. Now if I could just do that with the deer hunting. Cost of venison is probably something north of $500.00 a pound.
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I bought a rifle once and was going to pay for it with coyote hides! That didn't work out.
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(02-04-2017, 08:24 AM)TangoTwo Wrote: Now if I could just do that with the deer hunting. Cost of venison is probably something north of $500.00 a pound.
Ken
A hobby can't be pursued with at least one rationalization.... I fly to the Keys to go fishing offshore, between air, hotel, car rental and charter fees (not to mention the bar tabs), the 40 pounds of filet I'll bring back works out to perhaps $60 a pound, and my rationalization is that you can't get filets of those species in NJ!
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From the standpoint of hiring someone to build a project that I did myself, yes I've more than paid for them.....the only problem is that I probably would have never hired someone to do some of those things, would have done without ;-)
However there are a few: New windows for an 19th century well/tank house, used the old ones for patterns, and having priced custom made windows, they paid for many tools.
Baseboards, window/door trim, transoms, wainscoting and making hardwood floor replacement in our 19th century house, more than paid for my tools, both power and hand.
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(02-04-2017, 08:38 AM)larrymac Wrote: I bought a rifle once and was going to pay for it with coyote hides! That didn't work out.
That business plan works best for folks who are Insomniac's. If getting a good nights sleep is a must then yep, you would go hungry. Back around 2004 Ohio had a proposed $50/head bounty, but it never got traction, and fur buyers will give you a few bux for a trapped Yote, but a shot one, not so much, so there is always that income stream thing. But hey, it can be fun, and you are doing the world a service.
On Tools I'm falling in with Bob, and Mac. I've gotten into several, you need tools to play pursuits, and I've paid for the tools in all of them.
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(02-03-2017, 09:43 PM)MsNomer Wrote: How do you put a value on enjoyment, peace, pride, satisfaction, etc?
As homer said.... Search youtube for homer buys buys a gun. Extremely poinengt video.
I wouldn't have thought so myself but here we are.
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If the only thing I ever accomplished in my shop was my van conversion--which pretty much required every tool I have--I would consider the investment paid in full. That's not counting the ~1,500 hours of enjoyment while building it. It would have cost at least $30-40,000 for something less custom that would not come with the satisfaction:
"Where did you find cabinets that fit so well?" "In my shop."
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