Something you do for free that most people pay for.

i work out in my living room or go down to the highschool and run on their track... for FREE. who wants to pay gym fees when you can work out for nothing?!? not this girl :bigsmile:

I do my own nails and have never had a manicure or pedicure. I get free massages.
We barter for stuff and that saves a lot of money too. We have re-roofed our house ourselves, built a spa room, a sunroom, huge porch, garage, pool deck, other decks, grow just about all of our vegetables and fruits in the summer and freeze them for winter. We have a relative who works on cars, one does electronics and my son in law is a computer engineer, so we dont pay for any 'computer repairs' or whatever you'd call that.
I could list more but I'm having a damn hotflash, this room is full of people and I can't strip my clothes off in this room. So, goodbye for now LOL

Cook all my own meals from scratch - I don't eat out (well rarely anyway) and I don't buy pre-packaged meals.

My workouts are free; hiking, biking, track and stadium stairs at the local HS.

All my household cleaners are made from scratch using as many natural ingredients as possible, including bath and laundry soap.

Fix all my own computer hardware and software; just replaced my cracked iPhone glass.

Do many of my own house repairs, drywall, plumbing, even roof repairs.

Everything I can so I don't have to give up my ca$h!

I make my own soap and perfume and other assorted bath & body products. I have my own business.

Part of me wanted to do Weight Watchers but the other part of me said why should I pay for someone to tell me what to eat? Yeah right, I can do that myself. MFP is great,

oil changes & car repairs (well free labor not parts on this one).... though that is going to have to change because I moved 8 hrs away from my mechanic uncle.

Travel the world. I love my job

Not many people can say that they've been to all 7 continents at someone else's expense

I make my own jewelry.

I grow (and cook, and can, and dehydrate, and freeze) most of the food we eat, except for meat, which I largely barter for with surplus produce or whatnot. I also make our own soap, lip balm (the only expensive part is the tube...), moisturizing cream, aftershave/astringent (bay rum - it smells yummy, and you could drink it, but it would taste awful...).

My wife skirts our own alpaca fiber, and spins and knits it into nifty warm clothing items. She also makes jewelry out of pressed flowers in resin, upcycled harware, bullet casings, bits of olde watches and gauges and whatnot....

Of course, we also sell all of the above (well, except for cooked and preserved food, as we don't have the kitchen facilities to do so legally).

I'm pretty good with electrical, plumbing, carpentry, driveway repair (we have a lot of driveway....), fencing, oil changes and the like. But pretty much worthless when it comes to diagnosing and repairing engines. We've been heating our home entirely with wood i cut and split by hand (as in axe, maul, etc.) since October when our furnace, stove, refrigerator, and dishwasher all broke in the same week we were having a chimney installed for our own woodstove (insurance wouldn't let me DIY, plus our roof has a 12/12 pitch and is way up there - I don't like that...). Our furnace is geothermal, which is all energy efficient and all, but also all computer-controlled and thus expensive to fix. Anyway, we've heated this winter almost entirely with storm damage from our own land, which, oh yeah, I also cleaned up myself.

I'm planning to timber frame a wood shed (yeah, overkill, but fun at the same time), and if we can come up with the funding, we're going to build a yurt for my wife's studio this summer.
We're always trying to do more for ourselves. We have learned to do much of our own veterinary work for our stable of critters, particularly the alpacas and llama because there are no large animal vets willing to pay us a visit. But, we still need to learn to shear them ourselves. That's one where doing it wrong can have a profoundly negative impact on the value of the fleeces, but it's also crazy expensive.

I'd like to grow all of the grain supplement we feed the alpacas. It's possible with our land base, but will take some serious investment, including clearing many scrub trees, drilling a new 6" well, finding some way to get power to that well for the pump, and a few years of cover cropping to improve the soil.

We're also slowly working our way towards going off grid, and hope for our farm to be carbon neutral at some distant point in the future.

I really need to learn to weld.


Oh, I don't cut my own hair, but get really cheap haircuts at work...

I go to Disney World anytime I want

make up artist

Movies/music/games/ebook/software, ima pirate

Fix own computer.
Make robot that shoots golfballs at friends.
Change oil on motorcycle...really...why do people pay for this...

I cut and dye my own hair and I cut my fiancé's hair too. I also do my own eyebrows and tailor/mend clothing as long as its not too far gone. I take on a knitting project every once in a while, the last one was making my fiancé a washcloth bag (think soap on a rope meets washcloth) and I used to make all of my Christmas presents with craft projects like this, but I moved out of state and almost none of my family speaks with me so now I don't bother anymore /shrug

My fiancé never has to hire someone to do graphic design work for his company because I have a degree in it :laugh: And he reloads ammo when it's necessary/more convenient. He used to be a gunsmith, too, so he does all of our gun maintenance, upgrades, etc., which is awesome because I would have no idea how to do any of that stuff!