On getting stuff
A small box on the first page of the last Whole Earth Catalog includes this vital information:
The Catalog will bankrupt you if you can’t distinguish between what you need and what you wish you needed.
Start extravagant, and you’ll never finish. Get the cheap tool first, and see if it feeds your life. If it does, then get a better one. Once you use it all the time, get the best. You can only grow into quality. You can’t buy it.
