You're not saying anything I haven't been experiencing! No money budget sucks all the time! It's taken me 20 years to build up my tooling to what I've got. Fortunately I married someone who is cool with what I do (most chicks see the shop as competing for time and attention, and a waste of time and money. As for the money thing, once I showed my wife that there was no tool purchase that had not paid for itself at least twofold, if I can pay for a tool she doesn't ever bitch about the money spent)
Keep the fire lit!
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