Pay for convenience. If you talk about doing a process, somebody will always say “you know, they have these thing-a-ma-jigs now that make that a whole lot easier!” And they’re always more expensive than doing it the old-fashioned way. There are exceptions to that – when economies of scale come into play – it\’c3\’82\’c2\~might be possible that freezer burritos are cheaper per each than home-made one with ground beef, beans, etc, because the manufacturers buy in bulk, for example. But still… a convenient gas grill is much more expensive than a time-consuming charcoal one. Deboned chicken is more expensive than bone-in. Paying someone to hand-craft invitations is more expensive than making your own. You get the idea. Any comments?\par
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…unless you pay $10 for a used gas grill at a neighbor’s garage sale.
Now I just need to buy a propane tank someplace, sometime. 
Also, I was somewhat relieved to find several years ago that sewing skirts is rarely cheaper than watching for good sales, once you purchase a pattern and if your material wasn’t on a pretty good sale. The time and up-front cost of the sewing machine is off-set by the time and gas of shopping, waiting and watching for the deals, though! 
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It is always good to be aware of the trade-offs you are making.
I suppose how much you’re willing to put up with paying for convenience also depends on how much you believe that “time is money.” I have a theory that perhaps we’ve (as a culture) been fed this line so much that we believe it now, and we are willing to pay through the nose for boneless-skinless chicken breasts, when a package of Tyson bone-in costs about 0.79 per pound at WinCo Foods. It’s just the leeeetle things like that that make me wonder.\par
, I stopped to think of how many times we might save that extra $3.50, I might actually end up at Disneyland someday. \par
It does take extra time to find the deals, and I think it all depends on how tightly you like to stretch your budget, where you prefer to allocate funds and where your time constraints are. \par
I keep telling myself that if, when I’m officially in my own little domain in 2.5 months
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Or Europe.
Yes, it’s all about trade-offs, isn’t it? And “time is money” isn’t always correct – it’s only really true if you would otherwise be doing something for which you would be paid! Or doing something which would save a significant amount of money that you would have HAD to spend – no fair “saving” money on things you wouldn’t normally buy otherwise! “I saved $10 on these frames which I didn’t know I needed until I spent time looking through all of the craft-store ads!”