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Originally Posted by Patton250

I believe you absolutely could do just as good job, painting your house, mowing and maintaining your lawn/yard, cleaning the windows of your house, cleaning the roof of your house and maintaining your pool, assuming you have one.

All I have been saying ... is that there are professionals set up to do these jobs

Mostly with you, though I think where we differ is, you're equating a mowed yard to a clean shiney 911 and therefore implying there's equal enjoyment of both, but:

(A.) That could certainly be true for many people, but for me my cars are my hobby which is why I spend a lot of money on them, so maintaining them is part of that hobby ... and

(B.) Whereas a yard (or windows or house stuff) I don't care about other than as an investment since I have to home base somewhere.

So totally get your point on using pros, I just don't use pros for cars for the same reason I don't use pros to bang my wife.

Then again, to your point, sometimes the cheapest way to pay for things is with money, and I reserve my right to change my mind!