My plumbing is no one's business but my own.
We didn't really feel poor. You don't know that as a kid, but we really didn't have any cash. When machinery broke down, we didn't have money for parts, so we did our best to fix it.
Everybody has stories about using duct tape. Of course, most don't try to lift a car with it.
When I was a builder, I drove a blue van. It had a hole in the floor and I couldn't afford to fix it. I put a concrete block over the hole.
I grew up among farmers in Illinois and so you always have to have the tools you might need in the eventuality of a flat tire or a broken window.
If something doesn't work in my house - TV, phone, stereo, anything - I just call my dad, and he knows the answer.
My parents scrimped and saved all their lives, to the point where my mother used a disgusting old oven mitt that was stained and partly patched together with a skirt I made in seventh grade.
[In my home workshop,] generally I'm mending things, which is interesting because you learn a lot about why they broke.
I've fixed the toilet. And I've been crawling in claustrophobic places... you have to deal with that when you become a homeowner.
You might be a redneck if your wheelbarrow breaks and it takes four relatives to figure out how to fix it.
Oh, I'm quite the impulse buyer. Most of what I buy is stuff for my Jeep, 'cause it breaks down a lot.
