I don’t know if it was as much as what was spent on the tools, but you can’t put a price on happiness!) <<<<
I once had a sister in law who was jealous of my brothers tools and his working in his garage, LOL, just as his father did.
She ragged on him and anyone that would listen about it and I finally told her, “If you want him to stay out of the bar, let him play in the garage.”
She didn’t, and then she was upset over the bar and upset when the divorce came. But still bitching about the tools all the way to the lawyer..........
Sounds like if it wasn’t the tools, she would’ve found something else to rag him about.
My mother used to tell me that at least I knew where he was all the time! That put it in perspective. (Except for the times we’d have family night - rent a movie, have pizza - and he’d get up in the middle of the movie, go to the garage, and never come back! We were watching a movie once and our son, who was little then, left for a short while during it. The dad in the movie had died or left or something - and when our son came back and didn’t see the dad around, he asked if the dad in the movie went to the garage. I thought hubby would change his ways a little after that. But, no such luck!)