I think there's an inverse relationship between the money you spend on coffee and your ability to do basic home repairs (or car maintenance, drive a stick-shift, handle firearms, take down trees, etc.).
LOL, agreed.
Good one! For what it's worth, we can build or fix anything. We have to. Plus we have enough spare parts to build a house or a tractor. We're hours from a hardware.
LOL!! I had starbucks once, never again, and I love Maxwell House. I have replaced my own roof, septic system and replaced the fuse box with a 200 amp panel, and had it all inspected, it meets code.
I like your coffee inverse relationship theory, and I am sure it works for hair-care products as well.
Perhaps in general, but there must be exceptions. For example, I gutted out the lower 4 feet of my sheetrock after Katrina (six inches of water will ruin your whole damned day, I assure you), hung new drywall, floated and textured it, installed new floors, and added a Leviton structured wiring system with Cat5e wiring and quad-shield coaxial cable while the walls were open. I also cut a non-structural wall down to counter height and did a few other long-postponed renovation projects.
Now that my home-repair tasks are caught up, I can finish installing that 5-speed manual transmission in my '65 Mustang, and maybe build another FN-FAL from a parts kit and bare receiver (though perhaps not; "timing" the barrel so that the front sight aligns at "12:00" on the receiver is one big pain in the arse).
Oops, nearly forgot... my faithful old McCulloch Pro-Mac 610 chainsaw was on the floor of the detached garage, which took more floodwater than the house. I flushed it out, got it started, and helped my cousin slice up the 18" diameter pine tree that was laying across his roof (the lucky S.O.B. - all the rainwater that went through his roof went right out through his bathtub drain!).
And yet, I occasionally enjoy a large cup of Starbucks mocha. < grin >
I learned how to do a ton of stuff by volunteering for Habitat for Humanity.
I was LOLing and then realized it was your post!
You hit that one on the head...
I dunno about that. Most mornings on my way to work, my Sig is mere inches away from my venti frappucino from Starbucks. So I wouldn't bet too heavily on that inverse ratio theory.