There are some things, guns, tools, cars, even houses, that could be offered for me to take for FREE! No strings-attached, just FREE!
When I look at some of the junk that I could have for FREE, I want NOTHING to do with it, nothing at all! That house that would have been free may have cost me $500,000 to get some radioactive dump on the land cleaned up, not to mention a complete rehab on the house and all its systems is in order
(not something that really happened, just an illustration for the purpose of this post).
Lately, there are supposed "quality" name-brand tools that look pretty, all shiny and new and they ride around in the back of pickup trucks. The guys selling this stuff are always from about five states away and always have some lame excuse that they have to get to the airport and these tools are left over from some transaction. You can have the compressor, the nail gun, the generator, the industrial vacuum all for just $700! I know, a relative bought the same junk from a guy. After I got looking real closely at it, I found it to be copied US tools that were actually made in China!
I stopped by the local small engine repair person and he had one of the quality generator engines all torn down. He showed me the valve head rocker arms, how they should be machined or cast steel, and instead, they were several layers of sheet metal that were stamped into what looks like a rocker arm! He told me, that, in itself showed him and the owner that the generator was not even worth his time and money to reassemble the thing!
Don't get me wrong, some people find great deals all the time and they live with all these machines working hard for them and the machines never let them down. Then there is me. Anything I buy, thinking I am saving big money turns out to be something that actually costs me much more money than I have into it, not including frustration, running to and fro' the range, not sleeping, etc!
I would rather spend more and feel safe than spend less and wonder just WHEN am I going to FEEL-SORRY!
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