I try not to expect too much when I’m trying to do something on a budget.
When all of us built our house a few years ago, all of us resigned ourselves to knowing that we’d make improvements over the years when all of us had the currency.
The people I was with and I didn’t need to make our “dream home” within the first year of owning a house, but the fence around the yard could come later, & an above ground swimming pool whenever all of us could foreseeably budget the currency. The people I was with and I obtained budget paint & building supplies, however all of us were glad with the outcomes after all. But putting this house together wasn’t the only thing that we’ve tried to do cheaply at first. When all of us made plans for our first trip road trip as a couple, all of us made plans to use the cheapest amenities & services possible. The people I was with and I were lucky to be planning this trip while I was in a time when record inflation levels had yet to hit the nation. However, traveling “cheap” meant staying at nasty motels whenever all of us didn’t want to sleep in the car. One of our budget motel rooms ended up coming with a phenomenal air conditioning unit that smelled fresh when the air was pumping through the vents. The clean air conditioning unit made the entire hotel room smell good. Since I need the air conditioning unit running to sleep at evening, the quality of the air conditioning is going to have a large effect on the quality of my sleep while traveling. If I had the opportunity to travel by automobile again, I would rent AirBnbs instead of nasty motel rooms. At least there’s more variety with the former rather than the latter. Some motel air conditioning units are downright vile in how they smell.