WhiskeyThrottle

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I'd say I have over $30k in just woodworking tools. If you add in the cost of the building, electricity and lumber cost--it's an expensive deal.

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It's definitely not something most people can just go out and buy all the tools at one time. I've bought most of my tools over years and years. As I come across new projects I try to justify buying new tools especially if they're something I can use across different disciplines.

Space to work is one of the things that really slowed me down in the past. Even a 3 car garage gets cramped when you get a project going and have stuff spread out. And horizontal work space seems to get cluttered really quickly.

I've built a lot of furniture. For the most part I do it for myself and for friends and family. Usually don't charge anywhere near enough to make a meaningful amount of money. But I do enjoy making expensive sawdust.

And yes, my desire to build furniture came from growing tired of overpriced furniture. Even the more expensive brands are still just not durable and/or comfortable. Custom furniture is so price prohibitive I'd rather buy the tools and materials myself and make exactly what I want.

A friend's employee does cutting boards around Christmas time for side money. He would make a few grand in the Christmas season.

My "retirement" plan is to do woodworking with my spare time and possibly selling stuff but I'm not convinced there is enough in it to make a living off of it. But as a retirement plan, do something creative, productive and bring in a little extra here and there would be perfect.

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Not a solar guy right now but it could one day see a major tech change.

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I really like the idea of solar, but there isn't really anything incentivizing for people to convert. And government subsidies are not long term viable. The product should be able to stand on its own and it can't at the moment.

The solar cons are:

1 - Aesthetics. A lot of people don't like the looks
2 - Holes in your roof or additional room for the solar farm.
3a - Economics - without subsidies, it takes 10 to 15 years for solar to pay for themselves. There are diminishing returns over the life of the solar panels. I can't find any source that scientifically and unbiased-ly demonstrates the long term panel life span. It could be meaningful, or maybe not. But given I can't find the information when I look for it, makes me think it's not favorable.
3b - Electrical Municipalities aren't interested in offering incentives for back-feeding the grid. You're strictly limited to using the electricity for the time it is producing, A battery bank is just more expense in the conversion and also isn't attractive either.

If any of these items could be addressed, it would add appeal to solar. But who is responsible for addressing these?

Latest update. The shiplap ceiling took me a few weeks to complete with my availability. Laid out the boards on saw horses and went to town staining. I could stain about 32 boards at a time before running out of room on the sawhorses. It took a bit to figure out trick to get the tongue to feed into the groove, but I was able to create a couple of jigs to help. I was able to do the ceiling entirely on my own. Use a block and wedge as one jig and then a jig to hold the opposite end up while I worked from the other side.

Wish I could use the AC out there but I don't have doors on the structure yet. And prepping the walls stirs up a lot of dust that I didn't want sucked into the return. So been I've been raw dogging it out there. Takes about an hour if I start at 7AM to be drenched in sweat.

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If you cheat at golf, you will cheat in life !

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I believe there have been studies around this very comment.

Did you have a thread on here awhile back about this? I remember the dude getting bent out of shape when he was called on it and his score tanked after the rules were enforced. Or did I read that somewhere else with similar circumstances.

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Tesla Owners: What’s the Worst Part of Owning a Tesla?

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Telling your parents youre gay.

Im just not a fan of mixing sweet treats with spice. It much if a fan of tajin either. Hell, I like a margarita occasionally and dont enjoy the jalapeño margaritas. I have a higher than average tolerance for spice but mixing sweet and spice is not normally my flavor profile.

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If I had done this at 26 years old, I would be worth a lot more...a lot. I would probably be looking at retirement at 55.

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I had 0 idea what a 401k was about when I turned 19 but I always thought it was some rich person thing. I had the opportunity to start contributing at that age and did. Been with my company for 20 years now and have participated in it all along. I think I have a shot at retiring at 55.

Marrying the right woman is also up there in smart decisions. I didn't know she would out-earn me one day, but here we are.