[rlmorel]

I must say-I love my DeWalt tools.

I had crap tools most of my life, I just could ‘t afford to buy them, so I had a lot of run down hand me down tools.

When we finally got enough money, I asked my wife if I could spend “X” amount of dollars to buy new tools, a chest, etc.

And that wonderful woman let me have an open checkbook to get what I thought I needed.

I got all DeWalt tools, a bunch of batteries, and I have to tell you, doing things is so different now. She let me buy a big old vise which cost me about $400 IIRC and replaced a little dinky broken vise that had belonged to my father. How did I ever live without a good vise????

Now, I readily admit-I could have easily gotten some other brand of cordless power tools, and I’ll bet I would be just as enamored of them, but...these tools have worked flawlessly for me, I have dropped them off my roof onto asphalt, etc. and they work.

Love it. Sigh, all those years, using crappy tools...:(

[metmom]

What I have found both personally and from watching others, is that when you by cheap junk, you often end up spending more in the long run than if you had bought something nice in the first place.

That’s because the cheap junk breaks, and so you either have to buy another one and you have just spent twice as much for a cheap junk piece of something as in the first place, or you learn your lesson and spend more after all, instead of spending more initially and not having the aggravation of having to buy something twice.

I burned through through two cheap sewing machines in two years and decided that I could spend yet more money again on another piece of crap and still have nothing to show for it, or just splurge and buy something nice.

I went with a Pfaff, in the days when you could still find them, and that machine has paid for itself many times over and is about 40 years old and still going strong.