Huh. When you can’t afford to buy new things, you have to repair your old things, or do without. And often, it is a challenge to fix things with what you’ve got on hand. This is when creativity can get it done.
I like working on things. I’m a guy, and working on things is a guy thing to do. Especially challenging is when I don’t have the normal resource for a repair, and have to come up with a work-around. Many times these work-arounds work, sometimes they do not. Best of all, as my repair skills grow, in addition to the fun of repairing stuff, I save myself serious amounts of money.
I take broken things, often for free, and fix them to fully functioning, or improved performance. I can also re-purpose a thing to do something different from its design intentions. I do this a lot for things I need but cannot afford to buy. Tinkering since I was a young boy, repairing is playing thing I did as a child that I can still do as an adult, and no one thinks the worse of me for it.
If only they knew, I’m a kid at play!
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