you know you are a D.I.Yer when...

[cilyjr]

a little list fo fun... add to it, please

you know you are a D.I.Yer when...

your tape measure lives on your fishtank...

you have more pve than home depot...

every bottle in the supermarket starts to look like a protien skimmer...

 

[reefez]

You know you are a hard core D.I.Yer when you spend your lunch hour at Slowes & Home Depot Buying supplies for your next project.

Or when you make a bar graph breakdown on the money you saved on your new D.I.Y stand-Hood. That was for the wife though. She got a kick out of it.

 

[drauka99]

you know when looking at the LFS you take one look at a peice of equipment and either think or say - I can build one better than that, or I HAVE built one better than that.

 

[Tigger240]

how bout just plain cheaper, some of that crap is sooo overpriced... whip out dem dang power tools....

 

[douggiestyle]

you know your a diyer when everything you look at has an alternate use.

 

[dattack]

When you don't even look at the someone's corals and tank display but rather what they have under their stands and how to DIY their equipment.

 

[Keelay]

When you wake in the middle of the night and scramble to find paper and a pencil to draw a diagram of the new cheaper easy to build skimmer design that was just miraculously revealed to you in your sleep...

 

[syntax357]

When you can peice together a complete closed loop system for a large tank with all your scrap pvc or you can run plumbing in a 2 story house with scrap pvc from your fish tank

when you visit every aquarium website just to look at their diy section to find something new

or when you spend hundreds of dollars on a project just to say "I made this" when it would have been cheaper to buy it

 

[jaze36]

When the guy that works in the plumbing department stops looking at you funny when you explain your project and what you need.

When you have no idea what the products intended use is , but you have used it on 10 different projects.

 

[daddavis1]

When you visit your local plastics store and they have a preprinted statement of non-liability for your your signature.

 

[flyyyguy]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8430366#post8430366 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by reefez
You know you are a hard core D.I.Yer

Or when you make a bar graph breakdown on the money you saved

That ones for the wife.............And then you have the ACCURATE money spent bar graph for YOU to look at.....shes not allowed to see that one...lol

 

[spider86]

You know you are a D.I.Yer when you have gone to countless stores only to get the response 'What? Never heard of Weld-On'

 

[Paul B]

You know your a D.I.Yer when in many years you never bought anything ready made.

 

[Mighty Dread]

..when you DYI despite how much easier it would have been to just buy the damn thing (wipes sweat from brow).

 

[Driftwood]

... you are watching a movie and keep seeing things you could use to "Make an awesome skimmer".

 

[Keelay]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8431586#post8431586 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jaze36
When the guy that works in the plumbing department stops looking at you funny when you explain your project and what you need.

When you have no idea what the products intended use is , but you have used it on 10 different projects.

That's the truth!

 

[Keelay]

When you are familiar with plastic number labeling on things and can not only tell someone what it's made of, but which version of weld-on to use to bond them all together.

 

[altezza]

lol you guys are sick !

 

[daytriper]

when you know how many gallans are in your tank including the pipes sump protein skimmer ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

 

[dhnguyen]

When your wife caught you sneaking into your kids' toy chest to find parts for your latest project.