The Hidden Cost of Maintenance
TLDR: Maintaining things suck magnificently, but it might suck less if you make conscious decisions. At some point I no longer remembered in my childhood, when I first learned about the concept of “renting”, it sounded like the dumbest thing in the universe. When you buy something you only pay a finite cost once, whereas if you rent it you’ll have to pay infinitely - an infinite total cost! There are many issues with that statement. Obviously my kindergarten self is not going to know about interest rates and present value discounts, not to mention market volatility and risk. However, when I brought this up to my parents, their response wasn’t these but - “purchased things cost money too”. ...