This may be outing...but anyway.
So I called round to a friend/neighbour yesterday and upon arrival I was invited into the kitchen...you know, big, clean,new extension with great interior (just to set the scene!) and on the table she has a toolbox and plugs and fuses etc and the kettle. I said "ooh is your dh doing some work here" and she said..."no I am" the kettle wouldn't work and so she was changing the fuse but then decided while she was at it she would shorten the wire and re plug it! My mind was blown...I have no idea how to do those kinds of things!!I didn't even know you could 🙈🙈 I have thrown out so many kettles and other appliances because they had stopped working!!😬
THEN...we went out to the garden for a sit in the sun and dh was out there painting a gorgeous wooden kids playhouse! I said "oh wow, it's fab where did you buy it? Answer- " Dh Made it!! It's nearly finished now!" Again...I am flabbergasted (I mean it was GORGEOUS and really professional looking) On questioning him he said he obviously knows basics and has a lot of tools himself from diy and that he watched some YouTube videos and looked on Pinterest for ideas? 😮
I went home and said to dh that we are so stupid for not trying to do things ourselves and just last year the amount of money we wasted by buying or hiring people to do things is sickening! I totted it up and between painters, electricians, buying new appliances, BUYING the DC's playhouse and mud kitchen etc etc we have spent up to 3k! Why could we not at least try or learn to do those things!! AIBU to think we can do those things too!!
My friend is a nurse and her dh works in Insurance so they are not exactly builders or tradespeople! 😫 I just feel like I have wasted a lot of money that I could have saved and improved my skill set!! AIBU to think I can do it?? Is it hard??
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To think that I should try harder to save myself the money and improve my skill set??
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stopthelights1 · 31/05/2020 11:22
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