Im surprised nobody here mentions time. I can do alot of things myself. Like all the things that you can imagine. But my time is limited and I’d rather spend it with my family. So solving something by just spending some money saves me time and several headaches.
My renter complained that her dishwasher was broken. Bought her a new dishwasher. Complaints stopped because dishwasher works.
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fixing (thing) that you’ve been half assed fixing for ages
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having the right tools for the job
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NASA
Finding employees.
Sewer line always needed to be cleaned out, just replaced the whole line with a new pitch. Been great since then.
I’m currently in the midst of throwing money at a problem - car’s brakes corroded after I didn’t drive for three months due to Reasons. I’m desperate to get back behind the wheel - a backlog of car-centric jobs has piled up.
Works at my work. Something broken? Throw money at someone and it’s either fixed or replaced.
They stopped throwing money so now when a fridge dies it’s just no fridge for a week.
When I lived in a low CoL country, it was pretty convenient to throw money at problems like home maintenance (repairs, cleaning, etc.) instead of doing it yourself. Doing that in a high CoL country isn’t feasible long term unless you’re rich enough.
thats kinda how its supposed to work. people learn to do something well and you do the thing you are good at and hire someone to do the stuff you have not learned to do well. It still blows my mind the old tv shows with the milkman, mailman, tv repairman, phone repair man.
Yeah but what I meant was that it gets to a point that it’s already too expensive to throw money at it that it’s better to learn to do things yourself. For example, a floor tile detached in my kitchen and it pulled up the four tiles around it. Since the tilework existed before I bought the condo and it’s quite old, I instead had the entire living room and kitchen re-tiled, all for $200 (not including materials). If it was in the US for example, I probably would’ve just tried to replace just the 5 tiles by myself.
Never, because when the appropriate amount of money is used they don’t call it ‘throwing money at the problem’. It is a phrase that means something along the same lines as wasting money on a thing instead of doing what is really needed.
I mean that’s how governments always solve problems.
No.
“Throwing money” implies that the solution was indeed 75% useless. It’s why this expression exists.
It’s like asking “When is failure a success?” It’s literally not possible for a failure to be successful, that’s why we call it “failure”.
Bro. If I had money I’d throw it at you.
Works great when the money fire starts burning down!
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