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Watering Hole
A couple observations taken from this site and another.
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<blockquote data-quote="bobberboy" data-source="post: 171662" data-attributes="member: 1417"><p>...or "look what I <em>made</em>". That's the category I fall into. Use your head instead of your pocket book. I grew up kinda poor and learned how to make do and how to figure things out. In some ways it's easy to go out and buy stuff, and harder to figure out how to do it with what you got. I get a lot of satisfaction out of figuring stuff out and making it myself. Am I cheap? Probably, but why spend the dough if you can do things yourself. Some can say they work hard for their income and just want to spend their time and $ having fun. I guess I respect that but it's not my way. I don't need big and flashy when simple will do. I should say though that once I was on my way home from fishing with my 1236 in tow. Stopped at a light I turned to see a gigantic sparkling blue boat (with gigantic sparkling blue trailer to match of course) pull up next to me. It never occurred to me to wish I had a boat like that. What did occur to me was that I'd like to do an olive drab sparkle paint job with sparkles as big as dimes. In fact by the time I got home I'd figured out how to do it. Anyway, each to his own I suppose. It just makes me feel good to do things myself. Sometimes it's a curse but most often a blessing...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bobberboy, post: 171662, member: 1417"] ...or "look what I [i]made[/i]". That's the category I fall into. Use your head instead of your pocket book. I grew up kinda poor and learned how to make do and how to figure things out. In some ways it's easy to go out and buy stuff, and harder to figure out how to do it with what you got. I get a lot of satisfaction out of figuring stuff out and making it myself. Am I cheap? Probably, but why spend the dough if you can do things yourself. Some can say they work hard for their income and just want to spend their time and $ having fun. I guess I respect that but it's not my way. I don't need big and flashy when simple will do. I should say though that once I was on my way home from fishing with my 1236 in tow. Stopped at a light I turned to see a gigantic sparkling blue boat (with gigantic sparkling blue trailer to match of course) pull up next to me. It never occurred to me to wish I had a boat like that. What did occur to me was that I'd like to do an olive drab sparkle paint job with sparkles as big as dimes. In fact by the time I got home I'd figured out how to do it. Anyway, each to his own I suppose. It just makes me feel good to do things myself. Sometimes it's a curse but most often a blessing... [/QUOTE]
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