We are currently doing up a house which is our holiday house but when we retire it will become our home. We have done most of the work ourselves, including building an extension and in doing so have saved ourselves quite a lot on money. I am a practical person and am lucky to have married a man who can put his hand to anything, (even though he hadn’t had any experience with building and renovating, he has learned on the job and his confidence has grown throughout the years as he discovers what he ACTUALLY has achieved). Over the years we bought everything we would need when we saw things on special at the hardware so everything was here before our NO SPEND YEAR began. Here my DH is wacker-packering the pavers we have recently laid. The machine was got through using the barter system, saving us money on hiring one. My husband’s skills have been bartered. He is a picture framer.
Lesson 7: Look at the skills you have and see how best they can be used to Do It Yourself
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