Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head

I also started buying firewood last year. You know, to burn in those decorative cutouts they have inside houses with ducting to the roof that people tend to hide with televisions and junk. That saves about $400 / month in gas & electric during the colder part of the year. This season I'm buying whole trees (cut & dried) and splitting the wood myself. Because I feel like it.

Is that also a waste of time?

I also fix things around the house myself, and buy the parts & supplies I need from a hardware store. You know, those big buildings where the illegal aliens hang out. Should I just be hiring contractors every time I need to fix some plumbing or the fence? I used to have maids clean every inch of my house on a regular basis, had handymen fixing all forms of random things around the house all the time, pool-boy, landscaper, tree-trimmers.... and hired neighbor kids to walk my dogs... because I used to think like that. Money can literally buy you anything you want. You'll never have to lift a fucking finger. I had all that.

Now I clean the house myself and walk my own dogs. Because throwing money at every single facet of life, is not living. And pissing your money down the drain on a piece of techno junk you don't need because you think it makes you a "pimp" or a "baller" in anyone's eyes is the epitome of idiocy.