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Depends on if you learn something while making yourself. The lesson itself could be worth 10x the monetary spend (in a positive and negative way).


Well, and as I always told myself - it’s an investment in tools I’ll use again later, and eventually it’ll be cheaper to DIY myself.

Which, at the point I was welding together solar panel mounts onto shipping containers was true. But maybe i could have asked myself ‘should I’ instead of ‘can I’ somewhere earlier in the process hah.




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