20-05-2012, 02:36 PM
(20-05-2012, 07:21 AM)Yorkie Wrote: I'll spend half a day trying to mend a toaster than I could replace for a tenner. It's not as though I have time on my hands and nothing to do with it! In my case, it's a generational thing - it has nothing to do with rational thought or economics - it's that my brain is hard wired to the 'Make do and Mend' era, having grown up in the 1940s and 50s.
Ditto here; it's the challenge, isn't it? Besides whether you succeed or not, you hone your diagnostic and practical skills in the process: always a worthwhile investment.
Sometimes people say to me: "But you make it look so easy!" "Yes" I say, "but you haven't seen the failures!"
Al.
