I'm in trouble again.

[otherwise]

My wife just caught me using a gas ring in the kitchen to save huge amounts of money. I save the short ends from my line trimmer (you know the garden tool used to trim the grass edges) and melt one end of two and fuse them together to make a new serviceable new length. I say it doubles the time before I have to buy a new roll, she says I'm just a miserable old man. What do you think?

 

[devo]

Your just a miserable old man
scottish ancestry is it

 

[otherwise]

It's all a part of my early retirement plan, only spend on bikes, make the money stretch.

 

[keystiger]

I'm with you Otherwise, as a matter of fact as a card carrying "cheap bastard" (thats what they call miserable old men round here) also know as a "redneck engineer"....I have a Master Degree in the second one, working on my Doctorate...........I love the idea and am glad you posted cause now I know how to save $ on my weed eater string. Good On Ya ---you miserable old man

 

[The Seeker]

I think you're just lucky your cooking range is gas and not electric!

 

[CarlS]

I like that idea.

 

[DaveM]

Here is my weed eater at work

 

[keystiger]

:y24::y24::y24:

 

[DaveM]

I actually don't even own a mower or a weed eater as I have a garden service that comes in every two weeks to do the lawn for me. The guys charges me 60.00 ZAR = 7.72817 USD = 7.24765 AUD = 4.91192 GBP a cut so it is not even worth my while to purchase and maintain a mower and stuff. Also it would most probably take me the better part of a day to do my lawns and he hits it back in about 45 minutes with his team

 

[keystiger]

...........under 5 bucks for a whole lawn?!?!??!?! Sweet. Yep it would be insane to do it yourself.
Plus look at all the extra time you have to keep an eye on what insanity the loonies are doing around here
You have just been "tassel jacked"

 

[keystiger]

Not mine.....just "googling" around but it is cool.

 

[otherwise]

I actually don't even own a mower or a weed eater as I have a garden service that comes in every two weeks to do the lawn for me. The guys charges me 60.00 ZAR = 7.72817 USD = 7.24765 AUD = 4.91192 GBP a cut so it is not even worth my while to purchase and maintain a mower and stuff. Also it would most probably take me the better part of a day to do my lawns and he hits it back in about 45 minutes with his team

That's like slavery, a team of men supplying the equipment, 45 min at your place, and travel time to he next job all for $7.24 AUD.
I have a friend who is a one man show doing lawns, he charges between $50 and $75 for a lawn and can't take on any new customers because he's too busy. He does very well for himself, the only down side is at this time of year he works seven days a week because the money is too good to say no.
Dave I recall we had a conversation some time ago about menial jobs and what confers low social status in various countries. In Australia we tend to judge the person on how he carries himself and not on his job, this somehow allows people to be socially mobile.
Hows that for hijacking my own thread about trimmer line.:y8:

 

[The Seeker]

I have a friend who may have you beat......

He saves everything including tiny pieces of sandpaper less than an inch square saying you never know when you'll need just a little piece.

 

[otherwise]

I have a friend who may have you beat......

He saves everything including tiny pieces of sandpaper less than an inch square saying you never know when you'll need just a little piece.

About once a year I have a clean out in my garage and sure as eggs the next week I know that I want something that's gone.
I'm hanging on to my tiny sandpaper squares.

 

[keystiger]

Me too Otherwise.....well minus the annual clean out.....lol.

Never know when you may need something....OR you maybe able "re-source" it to fix/replace/repair something else that breaks tomorrow, or next week......and we all know SOMETHING will be breaking at some point.

 

[keystiger]

I tried that, but she just opened a portal to Hell and was GONE again. lol

 

[Gromit]

My household rule: if you haven't used it or worn it in 2 years, you're never going to. Give it to charity!

 

[DaveM]

That's like slavery, a team of men supplying the equipment, 45 min at your place, and travel time to he next job all for $7.24 AUD.
I have a friend who is a one man show doing lawns, he charges between $50 and $75 for a lawn and can't take on any new customers because he's too busy. He does very well for himself, the only down side is at this time of year he works seven days a week because the money is too good to say no.
Dave I recall we had a conversation some time ago about menial jobs and what confers low social status in various countries. In Australia we tend to judge the person on how he carries himself and not on his job, this somehow allows people to be socially mobile.
Hows that for hijacking my own thread about trimmer line.:y8:

Kevin when you convert it to the difference currency it would sound very cheap your side. Here it is not that cheap but also not that expensive and some folks would soon run all the equipment themselves not to have to pay this price for it. If you take it you can hire a black gardener here for around R120 a day. These guys that have the grass cutting business are normally white guys with a team of black labours and very few of them do anything more than just ride the team from property to property and supervise the team. Some of them are making a good living at it all. The guy that does my property I think is around 28 or so and could not find a regular job so he started this.

 

[otherwise]

when you convert it to the difference currency it would sound very cheap your side

When I posted I didn't think it out properly. I should have looked at it from a one country perspective instead of an international way. All to do with the hourly rate of the average worker in the country in question. We actually get a lot per hour but things (particularly housing) are very expensive compared with many other 1st world countries.

 

[Silli]

I'm with the wife on this one.........................