Cook In The Bag Packet Mixes, What's Special?

[SNACR]

I've just had to take my strimmer in to be fixed by the professionals. I'm ashamed. OK, I'm not really that hot on engines but having had a scoot around YouTube etc, I reckon I could have fixed it if I'd taken time and applied thought. I'm determined that I'll have the skills next time.

Why?

Plenty of places that repair stuff will send certain items away to be repaired by specialists, like rebuilding certain gearboxes or getting a hose guy in to make new hydraulic hoses or air lines on site. I doubt they're ashamed about it

It's all about a judgement call on whether it's a sensible and productive use of your time or if it isn't, from an economic perspective, would you enjoy it from a hobby perspective, if no to both then get someone else to do it. Also is something that's having a higher frequency failure rate worth persevering with or should it be replaced.

I come across so many businesses where they think they're doing it right by adopting the sort of penny-pinching mentality, that's pervasive on here. They'll spend a morning ringing round office suppliers getting the lowest price for a box of office printer paper that will last them six months and it's a total waste of time. It's all about balance and a judgement call. The time would be much better spent on trying to generate new business.

I've recently made the wrong one, myself, with an oil burning pressure washer. I've dismantled it twice now and I'm pretty sure it's still not right. I never used it myself, from new, so it's hard to benchmark what can actually be considered the correct working condition and it seems very hard to track down any parts online should they be required. In conclusion I should have taken it to a pressure washer repair place from the outset. That doesn't mean I think I couldn't repair pressure washers, or have failed at it, I'm sure I could competently repair pressure washers with enough research, access to parts and experience it's just not worth the time investment.

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[happy_renting]

I am so brilliant and expert at everything that my time and skills are so valuable, it is cheaper for me to get someone else to do everything rather than waste my valuable time doing it.

Edit: Except doing my own spell-checking.

[Si1]

F#ck me.

[justthisbloke]

Why?

Plenty of places that repair stuff will send certain items away to be repaired by specialists, like rebuilding certain gearboxes or getting a hose guy in to make new hydraulic hoses or air lines on site. I doubt they're ashamed about it

It's all about a judgement call on whether it's a sensible and productive use of your time or if it isn't, from an economic perspective, would you enjoy it from a hobby perspective, if no to both then get someone else to do it. Also is something that's having a higher frequency failure rate worth persevering with or should it be replaced.

I come across so many businesses where they think they're doing it right by adopting the sort of penny-pinching mentality, that's pervasive on here. They'll spend a morning ringing round office suppliers getting the lowest price for a box of office printer paper that will last them six months and it's a total waste of time. It's all about balance and a judgement call. The time would be much better spent on trying to generate new business.

I've recently made the wrong one, myself, with an oil burning pressure washer. I've dismantled it twice now and I'm pretty sure it's still not right. I never used it myself, from new, so it's hard to benchmark what can actually be considered the correct working condition and it seems very hard to track down any parts online should they be required. In conclusion I should have taken it to a pressure washer repair place from the outset. That doesn't mean I think I couldn't repair pressure washers, or have failed at it, I'm sure I could competently repair pressure washers with enough research, access to parts and experience it's just not worth the time investment.

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When I was working and well paid to spend my time sitting in a comfy leather office chair, the economic efficiency of division of labour dictated that I, too often, fell into the habit of just getting a professional to fix garden machinery. But now I don't have the income but do have the time, I find that many of my skills have atrophied - and certainly not been developed - over the years.

The strimmer example makes me feel bad. But I'm glad we're not in as bad a position as some people. At least we can cook our own food.

Being able to cook, grow vegetables, or fix a lawn mower are skills that make me feel independent. Conversely, the skills I aced at after (half) a corporate career (strategic analysis and growth through acquisition mainly) just made me feel like a high value serf.

[winkie]

I make all my own clothes and furniture.

[Sledgehead]

There's also a wider issue here about physical activity.

Convenience food has to be that - convenient - or it fails to have a purpose. It's there to allow you to spend more time at your desk, on twitter, on WOW, watching people eating convenience food on Gogglebox.

But cook from scratch, or better still, grow and cook from scratch and your activity levels spiral.

And yes, you are getting your independence back. The same can be said for repairs.

[Sledgehead]

I make all my own clothes and furniture.

Not nearly hadcore enough. Wooden barbeques. That's bang on trend.

[Sledgehead]

I am so brilliant and expert at everything that my time and skills are so valuable, it is cheaper for me to get someone else to do everything rather than waste my valuable time doing it.

It also saves you the anxiety of realising the difference between theory and practice.