Different places have different levels of restriction to different people. For instance, my wife would trust me more spending time in a karaoke bar somewhere in Quezon Avenue than in Ace Hardware or Wilcon Builders. As the tagline of Wilcon Builders goes: “Build anything. We have everything.”
In these places that cater to home construction, improvement and repair, as well as a host of do-it-yourself (DIY) activities, it’s so easy for a man to lose his way and splurge on equipment and gadgets.
Women love shopping for shoes and clothes. Men greatly enjoy tinkering with tools and gadgets.
Hiring a professional architect, carpenter, painter or other home specialists is the primary recourse in construction or renovating a house. That saves time and sweat, but not on money (then again, doing something all over again because of bad workmanship is more costly). There’s a sense of satisfaction in doing the repairs after reading all those how-to-do-it manuals.
“WE REPAIR WHAT YOUR HUSBAND DID BADLY” Goes as the tag-line of one repair shop.
Or as Handy Manny always says: “You break it. We fix it.”