| When I first lived with annette many years ago we had so little money we lived in rent free accomadation. we lived on the bread line for years, I sold my bike to raise the deposit on our first house and we could barely afford to live for the first 2 years of house ownership.
Now both annette and i work we have no children so financialy we are luckier than a lot of people in that our only liability is our mortgage. Up untill 5 years ago I worked 6 days a week 52 weeks a year as I built my business up, I now take time off for track days, long weekends away at races in europe and close my garage over christmas/ new year. this has cost me a noticable amount but as other people have said money is not everything and time with annette is precious ( someday I will be able to take annette on a proper holiday rather than long weekends but staff problems prevent that at the moment).
Having no responsabilities means I can indulge myself and buy the bikes I want, but we do tend to use them and I cannot bring myself to spend large amounts of money on bling items, this being a product of having no money for so long.
I repair cars for a living and other than fit tyres/chains/ change pads I do not do any work on my bikes ( other than repairing accident damage)I respect people who do all thier own maintenence but cannot face more mechanical work so I pay someone else to do it. If I won the lottery or god forbid my company went bust I would have the time and the inclanation to work on the bikes(mind you washing them might be a start).
dave  |