Sometimes working overtime is counter productive. Higher tax bracket. As far as home repairs go, the less money, the more creative you are. The plain fixtures work as well as the fancy expensive fictures.. May look better. I learned that frugal is cool.

I'm much more carefree now than I was in my youth, more free time too.

Don't even bother trying to remodel a room with no foundation.

It makes no sense. Houses like that, you would have to tear it all down. Put in a foundation and then re-built the house back up.

I know that's out of the realm but that's the only way to have all the rooms on a stable foundation.

I actually just started doing remodeling about 2 years back after watching countless hours of YouTube videos and researching technical pointers to know.

I'm most on small-scale rooms like a bathroom and holes in the wall.

I need to learn how to fix an A.C. unit....mines is in the attic. And I need a new Evaporator coil.

I search the cost of it and it had my eyes popped out how most charge anywhere from $1300 to $2500.

I'm doing my best to learn how to remove freon (R22) by the pound.

Not enough information on the 'net how to do it. Just more private business that does the work and charge all that money.

Right now, AC works fine but there a leak, and I have to keep draining out of pan because the coil is shot.

I will keep learning how to rebuild home-related stuff. Quite interesting for Men getting of age to learn that stuff.

Make some money on the side, too.

oh and being in great shape!

Being a grownup is LOTS of fun - I have more fun in a year of being an adult than I did in all my childhood combined.

I miss NOTHING about my childhood, there was nothing care-free about being a kid, and I wouldn't want to live through being a kid again for ANYTHING.


Childhood at home ranged from vaguely amusing mysteries to disturbing and chilling enigmas.

Childhood at school was an almost complete surreal nightmare of noise and chaos without justification or reason.


If I were offered a chance to live my life over again, I might reluctantly agree only on the condition that I could start from about age 22... not because that was a particularly bright time of life, but because life steadily got better year by year from there.



If I had to pick something to miss about my younger days, I guess I would miss not knowing this:

That sounds fun. My dad took us on explores. Lol. In the country or sand barges looking for fossils.

I miss being told......
"Go Play!"

I miss being told......
"Go Play!"