For sure, there is nothing wrong with saving some cash for your family.
I will do just about anything ethical to save some spare pennies on the household budget.
The cash saved goes right in the savings account my wife and I share. But, there are still limits that I maintain when it comes to saving large amounts of cash. Being raised as I was to have the confidence to be financially independent & self satisfactory is a plus. The people I was with and I actually grew up in a situation where the household was a family effort. Everyone of us growing up had chores to do & the people I was with and I did them in order to keep our home. That spilled over into my life & ethic as an adult. I don’t just come to the lake house & hit the couch after work every evening to soak up HVAC for a few hours & then hit the sack. No, I enjoy using my time & doing stuff. One of the things that I still enjoy to do is to go out and repair things that might otherwise just get thrown out. This is a great idea whenever it comes to reducing our waste. But, it’s a horrible idea most of the time when it comes to something as crucial as your HVAC repair. I have actually no knowledge to be anywhere near an HVAC repair. Unfortunately for me, it cost myself and others almost an extra thousand bucks to learn that lesson. The alarm bells were definitely going off in my head as I took the panel off the HVAC air handler. I clearly knew better than to do what I was doing. But, full head of partial understanding, I inspected my HVAC issues & stupidly thought I would have a look. I mean why not save an HVAC repair charge right? Now we need a new HVAC system.