I refuse to give any more of my money to doctors, dentists, auto mechanics, contractors, coffee shops, or restaurants. How do you get good at doing things yourself?
I'm tired of being ripped-off by people
I refuse to give any more of my money to doctors, dentists, auto mechanics, contractors, coffee shops, or restaurants. How do you get good at doing things yourself?
Just start now. Realize that sometimes you'll spend more on tools and mistakes than it would have cost to hire it out, but after a while you'll start saving money. You might want to prepare yourself for bad teeth in your old age, and maybe going blind from glaucoma, dying from treatable cancer, and other things like that.
>You might want to prepare yourself for bad teeth in your old age, and maybe going blind from glaucoma, dying from treatable cancer, and other things like that.
Based. Otherwise you live long enough to forget everyone and act like a moron all the time.
>Based. Otherwise you live long enough to forget everyone and act like a moron all the time.
I don't understand why everyone gets so hung up on living a long life when they don't even do anything worthwhile with their current life... Like yeah i just want to exist doing nothing particularly important or useful for 100 years!!!
Fricking idiots.
Wrong. You will spend far less on tools and mistakes than paying someone else.
>You might want to prepare yourself for bad teeth in your old age, and maybe going blind from glaucoma, dying from treatable cancer, and other things like that.
Read Ray Peat and realize that simply ignoring most of these things has a higher "cure" rate than the pills and radiation the doctors will give you.
1. Have problem
2. Google "How to fix problem"
3. Decide if the cost of tools/materials outweighs hiring someone else to do it
4. Buy supplies and follow tutorial
5. ???
6. PROFIT
This isn't 2008 homosexual, google just tries to sell you shit now.
>type "how to change tire?"
>first page is all content made in the last 2 months
>all sponsored
>>type "how to change tire?"
page is all content made in the last 2 months
>>all sponsored
I was going to post a pile of screen shots showing how wrong you are, but one will suffice. Nothing sponsored here, or anywhere below it. And for that matter, who the frick cares if someone pays to tell ME how to change a tire.
If you were whining about "best jack to change tire" and it was all sponsored you might have a point.
I bought a lens kit after seeing this vid
Can order my own glasses now which is pretty kino
I roast my own coffee with a popcorn popper, google it.
My whole family is in healthcare so I’m set, except dentistry, that shit sucks.
Cooking is easy if you find good recipes and follow the directions.
>I bought a lens kit after seeing this vid
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>Can order my own glasses now which is pretty kino
>I roast my own coffee with a popcorn popper, google it.
>My whole family is in healthcare so I’m set, except dentistry, that shit sucks.
>Cooking is easy if you find good recipes and follow the directions.
You can also just get an eye doctor to do an exam and then ask for the prescription before you leave. Do not buy the glasses there as they are astronomically overpriced. Then just get on Zenni.com and order up some glasses. As long as you don't notice your eyes changing that same prescription should be good for a long time.
I'm self employed and make sure I spend as much money as I can on tax deductible stuff... I end up "making" a small enough amount of money that I qualify for medicaid. Frick insurance companies. I still avoid the Dr. and dentist, like the plague. I do go to the eye Dr. once in awhile to get foreign materials dug out of my eye and I did just get an eye exam for the first time in like 6 years. My eye prescription barely changed at all and even the eye Dr. said I wouldn't even notice the change in prescription.
Cooking is definitely an easy way to save money. If choose your wife wisely you can find one that likes to garden and cook. I got myself a gem of a trad wife and she grows an amazing garden each year, takes care of the chickens, helps me with the cattle and farming, and home cooks basically every single meal we eat... We probably order food 1-2 times per month at the most... And still eat it at home because the restaurant atmosphere sucks...
>You can also just get an eye doctor to do an exam and then ask for the prescription before you leave
You will usually encounter a great deal of kvetching when you do this and will need to remind them that it's illegal for them not to.
>You will usually encounter a great deal of kvetching when you do this and will need to remind them that it's illegal for them not to.
Mine doesn't give a flying frick either way. Maybe he's based?
>. Maybe he's based?
I've been getting eye exams every few years for decades and they always just give it to me, but then I live in NC. That loser probably lives in New Jersey.
sounds like it's not israeli
When I was in the military, that's exactly what they would do. Doctor does eye exam, hands me a prescription, and then I'd go online and order glasses from one of those $30 websites.
My eye doctor was being pissy, so I just stopped going and ordered glasses online.
Some eye doctors are incredibly pissy when you dare not buy their overpriced glasses. One even played games to not give me my prescription. If I had known they must do so by law, I would have thrown a shit fit.
Another trick they do is hide the pupillary distance. They don't put it on the prescription because technically its not vision correction, its just a sizing thing that specifies how far apart the center of the lenses should be. Asswipes. Good thing is if you're an adult, pupilary distance shouldnt change so get the number once and you're good.
Zenni and similar online shops are a godsend for middle class people. No reason to spend $500 on glasses when you can get a decent pair for under $100. If you have a low power correction its even cheaper.
When looking at glasses, the biggest measurement for me is the frame width, usually given in mm. Most glasses are too big for my face and look ridiculous. 5mm width is a huge difference on how they look so find your frame width on a good fitting pair and filter by that.
>Another trick they do is hide the pupillary distance. They don't put it on the prescription because technically its not vision correction, its just a sizing thing that specifies how far apart the center of the lenses should be. Asswipes. Good thing is if you're an adult, pupilary distance shouldnt change so get the number once and you're good.
Yeah my prescription doesn't have that on it, but you can read up on how to do it yourself with a ruler with MM on it and a mirror. And then of course once you order one pair of glasses from Zenni they actually include a little ruler deal for you to measure your pupil distance.
I got mine with a shit ton of coatings for around $70, and was able to use HSA. It's usually the coatings that they try to findom you on. The frames can get moronicly pricy too, but the coatings are truly something. You can try the glasses on in the eyeglass place, look them up online in the eyeglass place's store, and just find the measurements there. Bring that info to the cheapo sites, get glasses, win.
Yeah I might get another pair from zenni soon. It was nice getting glasses in a store to see how it looks, but the cost is crazy. At least buying them online I can get a couple pairs and try out different styles, or when something happens to them it's NBD.
If your LLC you manage 'makes' all the money, then you make nothing and qualify for everything, even food stamps: which, can be used to buy seeds and starters.
Ownership is a legal concept that belongs with the dead. That's the purpose of a corporation - it's in the name. Hence if you 'own nothing' you will 'be happy' for all your needs will be provided to you.
People have abandoned faith as old fashioned, quaint and useless. Yet when your house is a 'place of worship', your property taxes go down, usually to nothing.
Dentistry is schools of dentistry, certain community operations. There's no reason to pay retail. That's for zogbot suckers, Public Fool System products.
I order silicon contact lenses from overseas, which requires no prescription, and I use a weaker prescription than 'advised'. Pinhole glasses from kazakhstan train the eyes to get better. Look for the aviator style on ebay.
>How to get audited, property seized, and other stupid health advice.
>sorry but uhhhh
>hahahahaha
>I just don't have details this is all my paperwork It all adds up on my end!
>lol
>sorry but enjoy the audit I am complying to the best of my ability!
> hurr durr
It's what orthoisraelites and churches do every day. But the slavemasters welcome slaves too; it's a free choice system.
> ask for the prescription before you leave
That’s what I usually do, but they didn’t let me this past time because it was too far out of date. So instead of paying the cost of the eye exam, I decided to just buy the lens kit instead. Eventually I’ll have insurance again lol
If you do this make sure you get the 'inter-ocular distance', or the distance between the center of each eye. This is often omitted on prescriptions and you need it to order specs.
You can also have someone measure it manually, just make sure they read the numbers while standing directly in front of each eye when reading the ruler/tape so you don't get a distorted figure.
You could probably do it easy enough in the mirror by holding a ruler up to your face, facing the mirror. Shut one eye and align the ruler zero over the open eye. Now shut the other eye and read the distance.
Oh sorry, someone did already mention this but PrepHolex was filtering their post for me for some reason.
>bad teeth in your old age,
I have no cavities and good teeth genetics. Realized being a hygienist requires no skill. Dentists have done nothing but stare into my mouth for three minutes tops, expose to me x-ray radiation, toxic levels of fluoride, then bill me $500+. I done with them
>maybe going blind from glaucoma
doesn't run in family
>dying from treatable cancer,
Don't care, the treatments for cancer look like hell. I take good care of myself, if I croak early then so be it.
Herbal remedies are a great alternative. Only downside you have to research everything. You can find many studies of herbs that work faster and better against diseases you normally get prescribed medication. Medications that takes longer and are far more expensive. Just look up herbal remedies for X disease then look up Y herb studies for X disease.
Through that I learned the purple pitcher plant in the north east US kills small pox and a inuit tribe survived small pox epidemics with a tea made from it. The medicine for foot in mouth disease takes two weeks to work. I made a antibacterial, anti inflammatory cream from pot marigold and coconut oil that got rid of the rashes in two days. Pic related is a great starting point written by a extremely well known herbal remedy expert if you want to flip to a page and know what to do without much research.
>The medicine for foot in mouth disease...
Yeah, what this guy says totally checks out. Definitely follow his advice.
git gud at basic all-around maintainance.
Learn First Aid
_can't really skip the dentist
Learn auto repairs
Basic wood building
Hipster Coffee brewing
learn to cook.
Google it. Invest the time and the tools to get good at something.
Once you start actually doing things yourself, youll realize you cant do everything by yourself.
Save yourself the time and the pain, learn the valuable skill of finding the proper professional.
Being a jack of all trades is an awful fate, you wont realize it till its too late.
Stick to your lane, become extremely proficient at it.
Once you become highly specialized, you become valuable and make real money. You dont have to worry about actually paying someone else to do their specialties.
Stop being a poorgay with a poorgay mindset.
sir, this is the/ DO IT YOURSELF/ board
This is not the /poorhomosexual/ board
Anyone with actual skills and an actual job pay a professional to do their shit work.
What kind of fricking pleb works on his own washer to save a few hundred bucks?
Only literal poorhomosexuals living in a trailer park who might not make lot rent if they pay someone to do it.
>Sounds like 80s boomer advice.
80s boomer advice is to just waste away all of your free time doing menial unfulfilling work to save a dime.
>Most trades aren't that highly skilled or difficult, it's just shit work no one wants to do
True, which is exactly why you pay someone to do it.
Isnt that the whole point of making money?
I can go be working on a project car, or gunsmithing, or building something of actual value.
Instead you would rather be spending your free time researching how to repair your AC for a week? Throw parts at it over and over?
Get the frick out of here. Pay some HVAC moron to do it and be happy.
>What kind of fricking pleb works on his own washer to save a few hundred bucks?
You really have a problem with the fundamental purpose of this board. Frick off.
>Building something of actual value.
Explain how a properly-operating washing machine or air conditioner are not "things of actual value" in 250 words or less.
>You really have a problem with the fundamental purpose of this board.
Im all for people learning and honing real skills, in actual worthwhile things.
This board isnt "im poor and moronic, how do I keep living like a poor moronic person"
>Explain how a properly-operating washing machine or air conditioner are not "things of actual value" in 250 words or less.
Not My Job
Menial work is for poorhomosexuals
>Menial work is for poorhomosexuals
Do it yourself.
/board
>Im all for people learning and honing real skills, in actual worthwhile things.
>This board isnt "im poor and moronic, how do I keep living like a poor moronic person"
What you're saying completely contradicts itself. Every single person I know that lives paycheck to paycheck operates like you do.
>I can't pick up a wrench and diagnose and fix my vehicle. Guess I'll pay a mechanic $1000 to do it for me. Why are mechanics such a rip-off?
>My washing machine broke and I had to hire a repair man to fix it for me... Poor me. Feel bad for me. Will you take a post dated check?
Man they're just living the high life.
the funny thing is that many rich people live like they are poor, and many poor people live like they are rich.
the reason poor people are poor is mostly because they are lazy, uneducated, and have no initiative.
>What kind of fricking pleb works on his own washer to save a few hundred bucks?
I have over a million to my name and I still fix my own appliances.
>Pay some HVAC moron to do it and be happy.
yeah I did that, then found out that the $750 dollars that they charged me to replace the defrost board in my heat pump could be bought for $135 and fixed for less than $50.
the only thing I don't want to do on my own AC unit would be to mess with the refrigerant.
>I can go be working on a project car, or gunsmithing, or building something of actual value.
>Instead you would rather be spending your free time researching how to repair your AC for a week? Throw parts at it over and over?
>Get the frick out of here. Pay some HVAC moron to do it and be happy.
Who gets filtered by simple plumbing? I don't throw parts at HVAC shit because swaptronics is not optimal vs troubleshooting.
I do all my own automotive HVAC work because so-called pros fricked it up. One job replacing an entire vehicle AC system (just another "project car" task) pays for the equipment because labor is so high. The work is very low effort and quite simple. Since my first I've done three other trucks for myself and helped my bo (we do things like give each other vehicles, wrenching is awesom) with two of his until the gear he ordered arrived.
YOU aren't. I don't live where that's a real issue, and that was part of why I bought over 5 acres in an ag zoned area.
Sounds like 80s boomer advice. Might be good for some highly paid professionals. But the future is high inflation, wages that fall behind purchasing power and an overall decline. DIY is the future for the common man. Learn to fix your own shit. You'll save your hard earned dollar and become more self sufficient.
Most trades aren't that highly skilled or difficult, it's just shit work no one wants to do. Most tradies do shit work too. Tradie-owners typically suck at business so they just charge at 30% margins to cover ineffencies (yet they still always go under or sell to private equity).
Even if it costs more in tools and materials you get to keep all your tools, and you'll come to find they always come in handy.
You are genuinely a worthless piece of shit. Do everyone a favor and stop posting your jackass shillbot opinions.
Frick your job security. Frick you especially.
>deliberately make yourself moronic
hard pass
Practice
And you need to have confidence/faith in yourself, because something always goes wrong and when it does you need to carry on instead of giving up.
I'm not poor and I still PrepHole.
People like you who "stick to their lane" STILL fricking make mistakes and I have to check on their work.
Like the electrician who miswired the breaker on my remote property, or the mechanic who didn't loctite (or even tighten) the bolts on my brakes, or the countertop installer who doesn't fasten it to the counters. Company I used to work for around 2002 paid a mint for a team of software developers, each making $150/hr, after months they had almost nothing to show for it and what little they'd done was scrapped.
>Once you become highly specialized, you become valuable and make real money.
Sure but on the buyer's said, paying real money doesn't not necessarily mean you're getting real value. Sometimes you're just getting ripped off.
Frick your protectionist, guild mentality.
He's full of shit anyway. You're not making real.money doing any work whether it's a plumber or surgeon or lawyer.
You're only making real money when you're managing someone else, or at least managing money
>How do you get good at doing things yourself?
Utterly implacable determination. Formal training greatly accelerates learning auto mechanics and once you're capable at that the skills you learnt are highly transferrable. I don't need contractors, plumbers, electricians (inspections excepted which are rare) vehicle mechanics of any sort, roofers, computer techs and more.
Center your life around DIY and you get freedom while saving absurd money. I outsource medical etc because I'm not insane and can afford to because I chose not to fail at life elsewhere.
Part of effective DIY is not being insane. Even the professionals (better than DIYers in all ways) don't do everything themselves. For example while I've a home machine shop it would never be cost effective to own and house a Blanchard grinder.
>Being a jack of all trades is an awful fate,
If you choose to suck at it, and JOAT in no way conflicts with lucrative specialty employment. JOAT comes in quite handy on many jobs too.
There are also areas where there are no available professionals. I'm the last vintage British motorcycle mechanic in my area so I do all my own work. I'm good at it so not a problem. Once you get good at being versatile you realize everything is of a piece.
>t. retired military who never saw combat and is on full disability for tendonitis in his pinkie finger
You're black.
for me, it started with a single hobby of making shit when i was 15, and i kept making things. at first a guitar, then guitar cables, an amplifier, than i started growing weed, after that coffee beans. this escalated to doing almost everything myself. current saving to build my own home
you're not allowed to do anything yourself without permits or licences or inspections.
GO FRICK YOURSELF
Decide what you can't live without, then after you trim down the list, figure out what you can do yourself.
You're not going to out-doctor someone, not unless you dedicate the same amount of time they had in getting to where they are.
Mechanic, though? You can do most of that yourself.
Don't be stubborn and seek help when you need it, either by paying a professional or seeking groups/forums for answers or guidance.
Don't bite off more than you can chew.
You don't want to find yourself with a swath of unmaintaned tools you dropped loads of cash on and half-finished project taking up space.
Don't be the guy with 5 rustbuckets that are overgrown because you were "gonna get to them eventually."
Plan your time accordingly for working on or integrating things into your routine.
Get cheap versions first to test the waters.
You might like fancy coffee, but if you don't have the energy to do pour over or a French press, then that espresso machine is going to go to waste.
If you can't clean up after yourself, you're going to let things get grimy and now your solution for a problem has become another burden.
Have a system for organizing.
My personal rule is that something must have a dedicated place or "home" before I get it.
If I want to use it, making it as accessible as possible is key. I don't want to be digging through junk drawers or pulling down bins from the top of the closet.
I know things will get forgotten if they're out of sight and out of mind.
Keeping a tidy workspace for specific tasks is also conducive to wanting to do them.
If a desk accumulates shit, it won't be used for anything.
Adding the amenities, even the "bad habit" ones to a space makes you want to be there. Accept what you like and use it as a driving factor.
Put a TV in your shop/office, even if you know you shouldn't watch so much.
Add a beer fridge.
Just know what is too much distraction from work.
Again, don't bite off more than you can chew and range it one step at a time.
To tag on to this, when deciding what you do want to pay for (beyond something out of your wheelhouse), the advice I've gotten and generally stick with is weighing what you currently make against the cost.
For example, if I'm paid for my work at $50/hr, that's what my time is worth.
>Will I be getting 50/hr worth of progress or skills out of doing it myself?
>Would I be better suited doing something else like honing my actual skills in the time it'll take to complete?
>What is the cost of materials/tools required to do it myself?
For certain tasks, I'd even be willing to spend MORE if I find someone sociable that enjoys their work and would be willing to let me watch and ask questions. From there, I wouldn't be flying blind or wasting time googling stupid questions that are common knowledge in the space. That's how I am with car repair, since I'm a person that spent most of his life developing computer skills. I'm jumping in late and don't have tons of time or space to work on project cars to figure things out with trial and error.
Besides, they already went through the trial and error.
Why do it myself if they've already got the answers and sparknotes?
If they enjoy their job, or they take any amount of pride in their work, they're always happy to share.
I've picked up a lot of skills easier than most through this method, with ample tips and tricks along the way.
Agreed with this, I try to do everything myself and when I can't I try to shadow the dude doing the thing I can't do so I can learn. As long as you're not a complete autist about it they are usually cool with it. The couple times I've done it they are actually appreciative that you give a shit and don't just treat them like the help, having their service valued goes a long way.
>To tag on to this, when deciding what you do want to pay for (beyond something out of your wheelhouse), the advice I've gotten and generally stick with is weighing what you currently make against the cost.
>For example, if I'm paid for my work at $50/hr, that's what my time is worth.
I have a pretty big problem with this logic: It assumes that you get paid hourly at your job, and that you have the option of working extra hours to cover the cost of hiring someone/buying something. While this may be the situation many people are in, I would be willing to bet that the majority of people do not have the option of working unlimited paid overtime. Even if you could, at a certain point you start to sacrifice from other areas of your life.
As a salaried employee, it's technically in my best interest to dedicate as little time as safely possible to my day job and then use my extra time to DIY everything, keeping within a healthy work/hobbies/family life balance.
All that said, tradies and shit have gotten so expensive that unless you're making 1% type money, chances are you will still come out ahead DIYing things.
I needed to do some major replumbing earlier this year, and the plumbers near me wanted $80/hr from the time they left the shop, and materials (with markup). I just took time off my job and did the work myself, because I was then essentially paying myself something like $110/hr (gotta remember taxes).
It's really up to each person to decide if it's worth it for themselves. I greatly value financial independence, and DIYing everything means that I own a house on 10 acres, have absolutely no debt, and have a very healthy savings/cash/investments situation. That means I don't have to worry about getting fired/laid off, which ironically makes a day job far more bearable
I value financial effectiveness multipliers, independence, getting what I want when I want it, and instant or other service at the time of my choosing.
I've two houses on ~six acres plus shop buildings paid off long ago, no debt and fully retired at 47. I'm not rich but led a methodically planned life so I could be free. I do professional tier work (especially on systems I worked on professionally) and quality tools and equipment are cheap compared to labor costs, plus I keep the gear.
Extra bonus is being this capable confers disaster and adversity preparedness. When the ancient pipe to my washer broke underground I bypassed it with farm grade UV-resistant hose and brass garden hose fittings to my (already installed) spigot mounted near my pump house. I'll dig a trench when I feel like it. I keep ample spare items including water pumps bought cheap in advance.
About half my income is disposable. Frick yeah I love DIY.
You can easily outdoctor someone in the vast majority of cases. A doctor has 2 minutes of listening to a poorly worded description of your ailment while you have 24/7 direct experience of it. All a doctor does is play odds, trial and error and placating people while gatekeeping treatment.
Take stitches for example. You don't need stitches unless you are losing organs out of an opening. They are cosmetic.
You're not wrong in many cases, but internal medicine, blood work, swabs, and anything involving prescriptions are mostly what I had in mind.
First Aid, anything treated by over the counter medicine, and things of that nature didn't even register to me.
I've never once had an issue getting proper treatment from a doc when I needed it. Insurance companies have been the only ones to ever give me trouble.
I don't just tell them symptoms, I also give them my best guess. They give me their diagnoses and I ask how we differentiate which is the correct one and why.
Either I learn or we both learn.
There's no way in hell I'm walking out of there without knowing what is happening with my own body unless we both don't know and are scheduling the thing to find out.
>Put a TV in your shop/office, even if you know you shouldn't watch so much.
>Add a beer fridge.
Or just don't work on moronic projects.
Repetition.
Don't forget cutting your own hair.
I've removed my own cancer and filled my own cavities.
I can show you how.....but it will cost you
>doctors, dentists
you cannot do these 2 yourself.
you aren't going to do any of those things DIY.
why? because you're a fricking moron, that started by posting about it here.
people who really want to do things themselves start by doing, then researching when they hit a road block, then asking questions of forums that specialize in those things.
>How do you get good at doing things
money, time, and research.
unless you have at least 2 of those things, you won't do it.
but then you won't anyways.
I've been thinking about this recently.
There are certain things that are worthwhile like automotive stuff and knowing basic first aid, but HVAC stuff may be an overextension. Even with cars, they seem extremely complex and there are probably 10,000 parts to consider.
How would you even vet good professionals today? The review system is obscured mainly by the amount of fake reviews that are everywhere.
HVAC is actually not that complicated and relatively easy to diagnose if you have the resources to throw at it. Its just the dedicated HVAC machinery is expensive, and there are laws and regulations for handling refrigerant.
>The review system is obscured mainly by the amount of fake reviews
Look for legitimate bad reviews. Ignore bullshit ones.
HVAC is e-z m8 the issue that stonewalls people (the ones who aren't fricking stupid) is the initial startup of a couple hundred bucks in special tools and equipment. The HVAC trade spends pretty much their entire existence fearmongering about how hard their field is and in the residential setting I believe it's actually even easier than wiring a house.
>there are laws and regulations for handling refrigerant.
No there aren't, not in USA. The only 'regulation' that exists nowadays is since 2020 the EPA wants you to hold a gay little certificate to buy bulk refrigerant. You can find tons of retailers online that still don't enforce this whatsoever and will happily sell to you anyway but if you want to be 'legit' you can head over to epatest.com pay $20, google answers to a 25 question open book test and receive your Special Boy certificate and go buy all the refrigerant you want.
Regardless there aren't all that many cases where there is even a need to buy standalone refrigerant. If you buy a minisplit system, those are preloaded. If you buy a new central air handler/compressor, those are also preloaded. The only two cases a residential man would honestly run into needing extra refrigerant is running stupidly long refrigerant lines from the compressor to the evaporator that exceed the prefilled capacity, or refilling a preexisting system after a leak. Other than that you can just buy whatever you want online and wait for the shit in the mail it is that easy.
I used to think HVAC (basically just AC) was a bit much to DIY, but I figured "frick it" and bought one of those $900 mini-split units.
Turns out it's frickin easy. I'm not kidding, it was like 5 steps to install the unit, wire it up, connect the lines, and then vacuum them down. The biggest barrier to entry is that you need a manifold gauge and vacuum pump, but you can buy a kit with those two things and a bunch of adapters on Amazon for $100. You'd have to pay more than that to even get an HVAC guy to show up.
Yeah you should probably get a refrigeration tech in to service your 60 aisle freezers if you're a grocery store owner, but domestic HVAC tradies have gotten so expensive that it's basically always worth it to at least attempt it yourself.
basically what I do is I apply my supreme competence and deductive reasoning and just do what I need to get done. helps having a father that's there.
ive been paying a friend to help me work on my cars.
i pay him like a hundred or two, depending on the job
i save thousands in repairs
i gain expirience to work on cars
he gets some side cash.
best advice. invest in tools. this the first step to start fixing your own cars.
get a cheap obd2 bluetooth scanner if it throws code.
order the correct parts from rock auto.
and just trust that you can do it.
there are tons of youtube tutorials.
i didnt know shit about cars, but i can at least fix 50% of my own problems now.
^Wisdom. Also if at all possible take a community college auto mechanics course because they pay off for life in technical understanding and saving gobs of money.
>ive been paying a friend to help me work on my cars.
that's not diy
Just start doing shit
>toilet dosen’t flush
Fix it
>leaky tap
Fix it
>dryer dosen’t dry
Fix it
>car won’t start
Fix it
That’s how I learned most things
Just taking whatever problem life threw at me