Lol, except the initial investment on farming your own food is a substantial plot of land, unless you have a community garden. The initial investment for a 2 hour brake job is cheaper than the total cost of getting brakes done professionally.

I was condescending to the author, but then followed up with advice to save $100 dollars every time you need brake work done. The part where you can (assuming you are healthy, etc, etc, etc all of the caveats mentioned in the thread) save money by doing easy car maintenance on your own with a smaller initial…

In the same way lots of opinions are incorrect. For instance, if you were of the opinion that being gay was a slight against nature or that black people weren’t as intelligent, your opinions would also be wrong.

I’m glad the law of diminishing return doesn’t apply to coolness and smoking. Seriously how cool do I look?

You are welcome to your opinion. You would be incorrect, but that is fine. Everyone else seems to be interested in infantalizing the poor. I would rather empower them with helpful advice that can make their life financially easier albeit $100 dollars at a time, every six months.

Yeah, I am happy with my guys I use for my modern vehicle, but am in the process of restoring a “classic” toyota land cruiser. Finding someone who can do more than just replace parts is tough.

What about them? Are you implying that women are neither technically or physically capable of following simple instructions? If so, that is offensive.

One of the local places does lifetime alignment, so I get it done twice a year when I head home to visit my parents.

That’s a bummer, but on the plus side, brakes shouldn’t be am imminent need. Once you start to hear the squeal, you have a few hundred miles before it gets seriously dangerous.

Does Amazon not ship to rural areas?

Yeah, they are the worst. A good rule of thumb is that if you made it there safely, you can make it home safely. Look at the stuff they bring up, but don’t take it too seriously. I had a “weak ball joint” which could fail at any moment. This was 7 years ago. I sold the Jeep to a friend. He uses it for off-roading. He…

Support her when she is standing up for herself and punish her when she is being obnoxious, annoying, or problematic.

If you can change tires you can do brakes. Two more steps.

Which is still a huge savings as it should at most take you two hours to do.

I absolutely understand the different cirucmstances of peoples lives. This won’t work for 100% of people. It should work for about 80%. To those 80%, guess what? I just gave you a great opportunity to save money. To whatever % decides to follow through, you just saved money.

Yeah, you have to go to Jiffy Lube with a steeled reserve to disregard every upsell option, but potentially take account of whether or not your filters need changed, because that is another easy at home job, no tools needed.

I addressed time and energy. It is a better use of your time and energy than working two extra hours. Or even just working two hours less. If you have the energy to go to work, you also have the energy to work two hours less and do this.

I’m helping as much as anyone is helping by reading a think piece on a bougie website. Either you can take good advice and use it, or you can not take the good advice and continue on with your life. Either way, it is still sound advice.

I don’t think they are lazy. I think internet commenters don’t know what the fuck they are talking about. I have given this advice to at least 5 acquaintances that were having money troubles and 3 took me up on the offer of showing them how to do it and now they do it. If you can’t come up with the money for the…

It is based on the federal minimum wage and the cost of getting brakes professionally changed. Since this is about the money and time, I am not going to bother to address your emotional/mental demands. Otherwise, we could argue for days about the mental cost benefit of successfully doing something for yourself and the…