Now that you're done shouting get off my lawn, when none of that had nothing to do with the subject..let's add some context
While working I bill my time at over $300/hr, it makes good financial sense for me to pay someone to change my oil. If I do it in 15 minutes, I save $20 on materials and give up $75 of billable time, and take on all the liability for any tiny mistake. It is literally a losing equation to change my own oil. And that's before we factor in that I can have my oil changed while actually working (my dealer picks up and drops off my car at the office) and then still have that time to go spend with my family and friends. That's worth the extra $20 over my own labor and material cost to change my oil. Just because you can't think of a better way to spend your time, that doesn't mean no one else's time has value or that their lazy or spoiled or whatever. Maybe the sad reality is you just don't have s**t better to do with your time.
Your inability to manage plastic does not translate to everyone else. There are a ton of financial incentives to using plastic over cash, as long as you can manage your finances. This isn't an opinion it's a proven fact.
If you want to get back to doing everything the most mechanical old-school way possible, get out of your vehicle and get yourself a horse and buggy. People still do it in 2020, it's not an impossibility, just a little inconvenient. You too have bought into convenience, you're just too busy judging everyone else to realize it.
btw...window-shopping is the most entitled stupid crap ever. you think a retail store owner should keep a shop open so people can walk around and look at things like its a museum, because they literally have no intention of buying anything? How about they move all that stuff online where people can browse it at no expense to the business at anytime the curious little looky-lous want? Oh yeah, they already did because that made way more sense. But no! They should spend hundreds/thousands a month in rent so people can walk around for their own entertainment....that makes sense
stop judging everyone and focus on yourself....your post suggests theres still a lot to work on
Actually two items in my post had to do with the topic at hand. Two out of five isn't bad!
Shouting would have been in CAPS.
Your post was pretty judgmental yourself... That's ironic. You blast the whole concept of window shopping and then you personally criticized me. I don't give a rat's ass what your opinions are but you're certainly entitled to them...
What I don't entitle you to is to be judgmental or critical of me personally. If you have a difference of opinion of my post you're more than welcome to state that but not infer anything else into it and attack me personally.
I said nothing about you personally in my post but apparently it struck a nerve or seems to be with me calling people lazy or sort of, that didn't do things themselves.
This is exactly what's wrong with social media and people's interactions today. They seem unable
To Simply State their opposing view or opinion without attacking or criticizing the person with the different view or trying to convince them to see it their way.
It is quite okay for me to like red cars and you to like blue cars and we can both state that. We don't need to try to convince each other why are car color is better.
No reason to take it personally or get bent out of shape. Just simply state that some people value their time more than a few dollars. Simple as that.
The argument you proposed is one I've heard many times and I don't buy it. I have never suggested any person take off time from their actual work or making money to do a menial car repair or tasks. What I said, and always say.... is that most everyone has the minutes needed to do it that they could take out of their own free or spare time. As I said in the first post, no one that busy. Almost everyone has an extra 30 or 45 minutes to spare some time in their week and we're not even talking week. We're talking an oil change that only has to occur for most people every three to five months.
Or gosh! Even get up an hour early one day or sleep an hour less to do it. I waste tons of time sleeping longer than the average person.
Notice I haven't said anything derogatory towards you but I'll address your rude comments directed toward me.
I didn't actually say I was unable to manage funds done with plastic I just have learned that my tendency is to spend more money that way. So when I deal with cash I don't really have to worry about managing or tracking. It takes care of itself.
I will say, I think most human nature is if you have lots of money or plenty of extra money you will tend to spend a little more or at least spend more freely. Even with cash if you have a nice surplus of it or carry too much of it with you you tend to spend more.
Some people are very good with credit or debit cards know exactly how much they have spent and keeping their numbers accurate and staying on budget. I find that's more complicated even though I'm a numbers cruncher. Cash spending money is just the KISS method for me and simpler.
On that window shopping again... It's been a marketing tool for people. That's why they put display windows up. They want to attract you to come in and look around because they figure a good number of people are going to buy something.
But you have a lot of your own judging going on in that comment.
I thought we were supposed to stop judging people and work on ourselves, or does that only apply to me and not you?
For the official record, I am completely aware of most all of my character flaws... I'm just okay with them. I actually embrace many of them.
Then I almost forgot about the comment you said about liability for any tiny mistake. This is the exact opposite reason that many people do their own oil changes and work on their own cars! I guess you assume that if there's a problem at a garage you're going to be able to get them to make it right or you can sue them or whatever... This is a major aggravation and sometimes at exercise in futility .
There are huge numbers of people that work on their own Vehicles because they don't trust the garages to do things right. So many boogered up threads on oil plugs and loose oil filters, not to mention them using low-quality generic oil filters and bulk oil.
And that's if they're even smart or careful enough to put the right weight in.
So I'll just leave it at that and say that your thoughts in that area are exactly opposite of what many car buffs and aficionados and car guys do.
Were I to respond with the same attitude and cynicism of your post to me I could certainly say a lot more and differently.
SIn life everyone should do what works best for them or at least what they like best.
Some people have no problem paying for convenience. Are there people are total Cheapskates. Other people are control freaks and untrusting.
All these require different approaches.
I overspend greatly on Heinz Ketchup, Paul Mitchell super clean styling gel, and eating New York strip steaks and prime rib at restaurants.
About the only three things I waste money on. Everything else on cheap cheap cheap!
But when I need a car repair or have an alternator quit charging or a engine misfire... I fix it myself for between 30 and $130 where the vast majority of people take it to a garage it's been somewhere in the $300 range for the alternator and if you listen to the garage they'll get you for a complete tune-up with coils and plugs and it will be over $800.
Good thing you don't own a auto repair shop or we would really get into it because you'd love to criticize my opinions about garages and transmission shops.
Lol
Stil long-winded but much more on topic... our new topic that is.