DBTrek wrote: ↑Mon Mar 08, 2021 3:26 pm
Speakswiththumbs wrote: ↑Mon Mar 08, 2021 3:21 pm
SuburbanFarmer wrote: ↑Mon Mar 08, 2021 8:41 am
Come on baby, daddy needs a real estate crash...
I will settle for reasonable building material costs. Renting is getting so old, but fucking prices just keep going up. I'm not a live-to-work-to-pay-a-mortgage type.
We are so close to pulling the trigger on some rural acreage right now, but $50 plywood sheets can suck a mean dick.
Good luck with lumber.
One 36x18"particle board shelf cost me $6 this weekend.
I just needed a narrow piece of wood to build an experiment in the garage, and that was the cheapest "wood" I could find.
Not even wood.
Pressed pulp.
I'm sure prices will relent now tho ... since we jut created $1.9 trillion more dollars out of nothing.
Lulz.
My SUV died 5 years ago or so, I decided to just go for a cheap sedan to replace it for now, but I rented a car a few weekends to go car shopping (since they're closed Sunday so I got it for 2 days at reduced price) - one time they didn't have a compact so they gave me a minivan at the same price, with the seats removed even - it fit full sheets of plywood just fine, so I bought several sheets of 3/8 1/2, and 3/4 ply (plus 2x4s & 4x4s) to stash in my shed, figuring I wouldn't have a truck in the future...
While I haven't used the plywood yet, the other lumber has come in handy so far.
I also grabbed an 8' piece of 1/2" & 3/4" copper pipe, plus 10pks of T & elbow joints for each size, for future plumbing repairs. Given how the price of copper pipe has gone up that was a good idea.
If you think you're complaining today about the price, imagine how much you'll be complaining 5 years from now.
"People don't like to be meddled with. We tell them what to do, what to think, don't run, don't walk. We're in their homes and in their heads and we haven't the right. We're meddlesome."