some notes on frugality

[Aristotle Pagaltzis]

* Kragen Javier Sitaker <kragen at canonical.org> [2011-09-08 11:35]:
> * Repairing things yourself can cost less than paying someone else to
>   fix them, but it takes a lot of time.  The surprising benefit,
>   though, is that you learn why they broke, and how to tell when it’s
>   about to happen.  It turns out that a lot of day-to-day things
>   (bicycles, clothes, cars) will last a lot longer if you have enough
>   awareness of them to care for them properly.

Surely this is merely unanticipated and not in fact surprising. :-)