My dad is like this - he always bought the cheapest of everything and never believed me when I told him that his cheap lawnmower was nearly impossible to use. Then I moved out and he found out first-hand what a problem a cheap mower really is!
ejcapulet, my mum managed to develop such a mentality after seeing some others do their own remodelling–and she asked my dad to do some of the repairs–and to top it off, put too much premium on “neatness”. Result: he managed to do a neat cover-up of an atrocious (what else would you call annual repeat-job of caulking-seal which is supposed to last 10 years?) repair-job. It never occured to my mum that he should actually observe them and learn.
LIT, there is also a cheaper avenue than garage-sale or thrift-store that some have been known to use–the Western version of “ragpicking”. An elderly couple told me that one of their relatives had furnished his house this way (he would cruise rich neighbourhoods with his bashed-up pickup and then haul away furniture left out as trash).
that looks like my old couch, i gave it to a friend afer i decided to get a new one, she used it in her back yard for one summer and realized it wasn’t water proof.
hahahahahhaha
she had to pay the garbage company to haul it away
rayannina almost 15 years ago
Mijo, just hit some garage sales, okay?
margueritem almost 15 years ago
I’ve known people like Papi…
ejcapulet almost 15 years ago
My dad is like this - he always bought the cheapest of everything and never believed me when I told him that his cheap lawnmower was nearly impossible to use. Then I moved out and he found out first-hand what a problem a cheap mower really is!
LibrarianInTraining almost 15 years ago
Garage sales? Ha! Thrift store, my friend! That’s where the good ones are, and they’ll haul away the old one to boot!
prasrinivara almost 15 years ago
ejcapulet, my mum managed to develop such a mentality after seeing some others do their own remodelling–and she asked my dad to do some of the repairs–and to top it off, put too much premium on “neatness”. Result: he managed to do a neat cover-up of an atrocious (what else would you call annual repeat-job of caulking-seal which is supposed to last 10 years?) repair-job. It never occured to my mum that he should actually observe them and learn.
LIT, there is also a cheaper avenue than garage-sale or thrift-store that some have been known to use–the Western version of “ragpicking”. An elderly couple told me that one of their relatives had furnished his house this way (he would cruise rich neighbourhoods with his bashed-up pickup and then haul away furniture left out as trash).
carmy almost 15 years ago
Poor Gracie!
bald almost 15 years ago
that looks like my old couch, i gave it to a friend afer i decided to get a new one, she used it in her back yard for one summer and realized it wasn’t water proof. hahahahahhaha she had to pay the garbage company to haul it away
Wildmustang1262 almost 15 years ago
¡Ah por favor! ¿Qué es un desconcierto terrible?
(LOLs! I love it!)
Templo S.U.D. almost 15 years ago
¡Allí está Gracie! Maybe being stuck in couch was the reason you couldn’t see her in yesterday’s Sunday comic!
LibrarianInTraining almost 15 years ago
prasrinivara, funny. We just always called it “junk week”.
It’s how we got our diving board. :)
caddy.1957 almost 15 years ago
That reminds me I need a new sofa