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I thank my dad every day that he taught me some basic diy skills. The amount of money I see people throwing at cars, repairs, land scaping, etc, is obscene. I mean, I guess if you're sitting on 8 figs then go wild and buy what you want, but even the high income wages in my town are you to their eye balls in debt because they bought a $80k truck that is no different than my $20k truck except there was driven new off the lot. And then they'll throw it away in 5 years when the brakes need to be done because "there's something wrong with it".
Or they throw $50k at a random contractor for a job that didn't even need to be done, or didn't vet it correctly, and then piss and moan how the contractor left town and they're stuck with another $20k bill because he didn't do the job right
I seriously implore any and all young anons reading this to work construction for a year or two. At the very least, you'll gain the confidence and knowledge to not be swindled by sales people and contractors.
And go buy a shit box civic and spend a repair upgrading and replacing everything.