I can sort of relate to this, but its a very complex situation. I remember growing up in an opld house in need of repairs it was often decided ‘we would to the work ourselves’ rather than hire someone (ie save some money and that helped pay for my college education, some trips to the country, etc). But it would take us 3 days to fix something (eg electrical, plumbing, concrete, roofing) which an expert could do in 1⁄2 a day.
Also at times very small amounts of savings are a major difference. If you decide to spend more money on some electronic or musical device ( i’m somewhat into music so i often have to decide whether to try to fix what i have or buy something new) you then may not have busfare. So then since you have to walk you will get an ‘adventure’—might have to go through some bad weather or dangerous areas.
(I have noticed many good quality modern electrical appliances are both cheap on energy use, and sturdy; but sometimes if you save a little money and get a lower quality one , they break in a short period so you need a new one).
In my spare time for entertainment i try to come up with simple mathematical formalisms (‘fermi calculations’) to handle these cost/benefit calculations , but i rapidly realize to really handle them you need something like tensor analyses or modern variants (category theory) since you dealing with so many variables.
I can sort of relate to this, but its a very complex situation. I remember growing up in an opld house in need of repairs it was often decided ‘we would to the work ourselves’ rather than hire someone (ie save some money and that helped pay for my college education, some trips to the country, etc). But it would take us 3 days to fix something (eg electrical, plumbing, concrete, roofing) which an expert could do in 1⁄2 a day.
Also at times very small amounts of savings are a major difference. If you decide to spend more money on some electronic or musical device ( i’m somewhat into music so i often have to decide whether to try to fix what i have or buy something new) you then may not have busfare. So then since you have to walk you will get an ‘adventure’—might have to go through some bad weather or dangerous areas.
(I have noticed many good quality modern electrical appliances are both cheap on energy use, and sturdy; but sometimes if you save a little money and get a lower quality one , they break in a short period so you need a new one).
In my spare time for entertainment i try to come up with simple mathematical formalisms (‘fermi calculations’) to handle these cost/benefit calculations , but i rapidly realize to really handle them you need something like tensor analyses or modern variants (category theory) since you dealing with so many variables.