I am about to publish a blog article about “You get what you pay for”.
It was prompted by several projects this week where the past contractor did such as crappy job due to being cheap that the client ended up paying more in the end.
One was a painting job, where the previous painter did not prep correctly and now the paint is peeling, chipping, etc. Client paid for a cheaper version of a paint job and now me to clean all that up and then do a good paint job.
When you feeding a bunch of 8 year olds hot dogs at a birthday party, sure go cheap, they don’t care. But when it comes to your home or business, why anyone would go cheap is insane.
I can tell when I walk in someones house within seconds if they have a cheap mentality or not. It has nothing to do with their income or class status. It is a certain mentality that quite honestly robs people of understanding quality and value.
My wife has a cheap mentality - she loves Ikea crap. I show her our kitchen table which is solid hardwood and will last 40 years. Sure, new it was 3 times the cost of an Ikea table, but over 40 years, those Ikea buying sheep will spend 10 times as much as I did. Every year or two they will be buying another table.
It’s what you get used to. We didn’t sing hymns in church written after 1850 because they were wordly. I’m out of that cult stage of my life but I still don’t do music and will leave a restaurant if it’s playing in the background. Silence is golden. My kids grew up without radios, CD players etc. We can play radio stations on the computer but mainly it’s just for BBC. But, I’m glad for you if it makes you happy. For real.
Oh man, I feel you there! We would just about get asked to leave if we rolled in the parking lot with a Gold City cassette in the player. It had drums, and they were wicked. Drums and goatee’s were of the devil lol! I’ve seriously thought about writing a book on that lifestyle, but I think it’d be a waste of time to ruminate on that too much. Skirt length checks, wife-slave mentality, “man-o-gawd” worship, standards/rules (contractual too) for days, and absolutely no Jesus anywhere. If Christ himself walked through the doors of that place, they wouldn’t let him past the foyer.
No, no, no. Belt drive isolates the vibration of the motor from the platter, reducing extraneous vibration to the tonearam. Direct drive is bad unless you’re talking about pressure washers and then it’s great.
Yep. Pretty much the same. A friend of my wife’s still goes there (wants to leave, but is scared her parents will disassociate from her), and her friend’s mom literally cried when she found out her daughter wore pants. This was recent too. Said she’s “giving the devil an inch.” My brother’s wife was called into the pastor’s (dictator’s) office, without asking my brother to come in, and she was told she could no longer sing in the choir, nor serve in any other capacity, because someone saw her wearing pants while she was working at a retail store in the mall. There’s a good chance we know some of the same folks that ran in those circles. We associated only with churches exactly alike. A few of em in NC too. Funny thing, the Wilds Camp was “too worldly” lol! Takes a while to come out of a cult like that. A lot of healing and forgiving to really move on. Sucks when you still have family in there that no longer talk to you. Really sucks.
No worries. A thread wouldn’t be a thread without a few rabbit trails. Besides, I probably know more about Apostolic/holiness churches than you might imagine…