I want to buy a mc camper and my wife keeps throwing logic at me (I hate when she does that). She asked me how much and I told her $3.5-$4K. She then asked how often we'd use it. Ans: Three to four times a year. Her: Okay, we can travel and stay at a $100 hotel; that's $400 a year -- we can do that for 10 years before the camper breaks even. Meanwhile we sleep more comfortably, don't get eaten by bugs, burn up on sleepless nights, etc.
She did the same thing AFTER I bought a $1K snow blower. Her: we get two snow storms a year -- should've paid the neighbor $30 each each time when he offered. It takes him five minutes with his truck with plow and takes you nearly two hours, and you'll never break even financially.
Two months ago, i tried using this type of logic when she insisted I buy a riding lawn mower for our 1/3 acre lot (it actually takes me longer to mow the grass with it than with my self-propelled mower.) She agreed the self-propelled was adequate for cutting the grass, but that it would save us two-three hours a week raking leaves in the fall. Needless to say, she wields the logic much better than I do...
J.D.
She did the same thing AFTER I bought a $1K snow blower. Her: we get two snow storms a year -- should've paid the neighbor $30 each each time when he offered. It takes him five minutes with his truck with plow and takes you nearly two hours, and you'll never break even financially.
Two months ago, i tried using this type of logic when she insisted I buy a riding lawn mower for our 1/3 acre lot (it actually takes me longer to mow the grass with it than with my self-propelled mower.) She agreed the self-propelled was adequate for cutting the grass, but that it would save us two-three hours a week raking leaves in the fall. Needless to say, she wields the logic much better than I do...
J.D.