Three billion years and it's still just a rock though.

Wait, you spent three hours fighting with the wrong screws before realizing it?

Whoa wait, @david_rivera4 are you serious? I thought that thing was held together with duct tape and prayers for years now.

Grabbed a pack of those foam brushes last spring thinking I'd use 'em for touch-ups, and @kim191, your buddy Dave might be onto something because I ended up painting my whole garden shed with them. Felt a little silly standing there with a 99-cent brush while my fancy roller sat in the tray, but the finish was actually smoother and zero drips. Of course, that's the same day I dropped my phone in the paint can, so take my advice with a pound of salt. Your mileage will definitely vary on this one, but toss-and-go is a solid argument for any project where you'd rather be done than look professional.

But isn't that more about nostalgia than actually getting the job done right? I get missing the old ways, but I've seen way more screw ups from tired crews taking their sweet time than from guys using modern gear to get in and out clean. Those mini excavators and concrete pumps let us do precision work that would've taken days by hand, and with way less back injuries too. Maybe I'm just not old enough to be sentimental about it, but I'd rather go home at a decent hour with my body intact than watch a crew take all day on something a machine could do in 20 minutes.