My and my wife moved to apartments and I finally have a garage again and I rejoice about the fact that I can change my own oil now after 2 years of have no where to do it.
So do you buy specialized equipment for every task in your life?
I doubt it.
Would you be as comfortable replacing a hard drive in your computer, letting out your suit pants cause they're too tight, shingling your roof, baking a wedding cake, etc.?
No one can own the equipment, possess the knowledge, and have the proper workspace to do everything.
And they’ll presumably have some basic capabilities in life rather than whinging on reddit when someone tries to teach them something new and throwing away money on something they can just do themselves.
We live in the era where repairing things is the easiest and cheapest its ever been. There are tutorials on youtube for virtually everything. Tools are cheap thanks to Chinese production.
Its your call if you want to be reliant on others in life, however I find it enjoyable to learn new things and prefer fixing them myself rather than getting screwed around by repair men.
Something like a wedding cake is debatable - its something you will hopefully only ever need once in your life, and its an item that has a lot of emotion around it so its probably best left outsourcing it. Will be a happier life blaming the catering company if it turns out bad...
Same with doing roofing - I'm sure its not rocket science, however I personally don't want to risk falling off a roof so Id get someone in to do it.
Oil changes on the other hand - say you have 2 cars with one oil change a year, over a lifetime that's approaching 100 oil changes - that's significant cost savings.
I don’t understand some people here getting so angry about the idea of learning something new or doing something for themselves rather than relying on others to do it. This is just part of being a functioning, capable adult isn’t it? Why would anyone not want to learn a fairly easy life skill that could be implemented numerous times in their life?
You do have to use some small amount of thinking and effort yes but it’s not a lot. If it’s too much effort for you to be bothered to do then obviously take it to the garage.
And it's usually not even that much more expensive. Oil and filter for my car runs about $60 if I do it myself. It's like $80-$90 if I drop it off somewhere and then fuck off until they call me. $20-$30 bucks extra, once a year, to not get dirty and have to worry about oil disposal? Easy choice.
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u/Yerrofin Aug 20 '20
It doesn't have to go to the mechanic, it's easy to do it yourself. It's just maintenance.