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Over the past few weeks I've put two new sockets in a bedroom which meant cutting them into the walls, lifting floorboards and drilling joists to run the cable. Then redecorated and hung a new door on the room.
Serviced my daughters car as she, like her mother, thinks all they need is petrol and even that annoys them both. 
...and just this morning stripped and patched Mrs Snaps headset cable as the dog managed to snap it and I couldn't stand watching her leaning into the laptop screen to have a business conference.

I've got no training to do this stuff other than picking it up over the years and just a take it apart to see how it works attitude.

It occurs to me though that people don't seem to do this stuff as much as they used to and just 'get a man in'

Am I right?


Snaps

They probably don't, but strictly speaking if you do any electrical work aren't you supposed to use a Part P certified electrician or at least get one to certify your work nowadays? (bloody EU eh?).

Back in my parents' day, more people were more thrifty, or had to be, so learned to do things.

I spend all week at work, I don't want to spend all weekend working , so I have to cough up for someone else to do it.

When I had my bathroom done a mate said I could do the tiling. So I had the choice to book a week off work, learn how to do tiling, do it badly, get moaned at in a fortnight when tiles fall off, or pay, admittedly , lots of money, to a skilled tradesman to gut, and redo the whole bathroom, in a week.

Money well spent I'd say.

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Another example is that a lot of things are more affordable these days, my mum offered to darn some socks for me the other day. when you can buy a pack of 5 pairs which last for ages in the supermarket, why bother?

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