Have You Blown Your Budget?

I gave up on that along time ago. I just don't want to know anymore.

 

My budget get blown all the time...ON OTHER STUFF!!! That's life. DD repairs, home repairs, health concerns, not to mention the price of your monthly nut going up. Who likes their electric bills lately? Fuckers. Mainly I blow it on shit to flip. Flipping shit is very addictive and sometimes I end up keeping the stuff. Tread softly grasshopper...

 

I stayed within my parts budget once... But that was when I was putting free water in the radiator.


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Under on my C-10, will be over on the '54 Ford.

 

Not really, its about it not being your first rodeo, planning in detail ahead, and the big thing is being honest with yourself in the first place. Going in, everybody always deludes themselves into thinking they are going to find all thier stuff for pennies on the dollar. If you set a realistic budget in the first place, theres no reason you cant hit it pretty close.

I projected around $12,000 with iron heads, dropped an extra $1000+ on AFRs, I will bring it in around $14,000. I call that pretty damned close.

 

Blew it on my engine....

Yeah, yeah bad call adding my receipts.

 

I can only afford a naturally aspirated budget.

 

I drug the wagon out of the barn with a $2,500 Dollar budget in mind and a idea of 3 months and it would be on the road.

I was just going to clean it up and get it running,,that was on February 20,2003 and I drove it for the first time on March 22,2012.

That's missing my projected finish time by 8 years and 9 months,,I kept every receipt thinking someday I will add it up but when I look in the filling cabinet there is 2 drawers full of paper work,,suffice to say I went into the stratosphere when it came to the subject.

The car was a labor of love,,and hate at times,but it made my wife happy,,and a happy wife makes for a happy life. HRP

 

I started with a couple hundred dollar car and thought to myself "Well, this won't be bad." Ha, that was the cheapest thing. . .and I also have a huge pile of receipts, which I also have no intention of adding up either.

 

My favorite logic of all!

 

Funny you should say that, Scruffy, because for planning time to do almost any automotive task, even the simple ones, I've used the 3x rule for years, and it's amazing how accurate it has been. I never thought about doing the same thing with a budget, and now that you've pointed that out, I see it applies there too. Trouble is tho, if I ever realized up front that it'll cost 3x as much as I think to build it, I'd never build anything! Best to ballpark it, close your eyes, pull the trigger, and build at the pace your money will allow.
Or as my son like to remind me, ya gotta pay to play.

 

Budget??? HotRodding's a way of life. Do you try to stay under Budget when you go see the Doctor?

 

Best answer...
and eventually all the parts make a hot rod.

 

Yep, big time. Distance costs us heaps in freight. To start with, car wasn't sold here so no body parts swap with locally buillt Holden body. Fisher body is totally different so hardly any interchange whatsoever.

 

savings gone,well gone way over time estimate and still spending, building but still enjoying the build

 

Simple stuff, really. Car budget can be checked at any time by running a simple 5-minute checklist. This is a qualitative issue, numbers mean nothing.

Checklist...printitoff and stick it to your refrigerator. Now.

1. Go look at dog's bowl. Food there?? Check.
2. Open front door and look at it. If no notices signed "Sheriff" there, Check.
3. Flip a light switch. Light comes on?? Check.
4. Children, wife, etc. Still in house?? Probably happy. Check.
5. Above personnel...gone, closets empty? Oh, well. Check.

If you have a passing grade on the above (5 out of five, A. 1 out of 5, B+),
your budget is just fine. Go back to the HAMB want ads and order some neat stuff.

 

I started to and began to feel ill. I decided I'd rather drive it and not know how much damage I truly did to my bank account. I have an idea, but this is a case where ignorance is bliss.

 

My budget was $1,000. My bills and receipts are far more.

 

"That's all I do" ! ........ "Other PRIORITIES (unfortunately)" !

 

"Previously - I hadn't sent the quote I was replying to....my mistake" !

 

I always blow my budget by buying a blower! hahahaha!

 

Blew my budget 2 wives ago-now I take it one job at a time- do what I can to buy stuff
when I can so there is always something to work on even if today I have no $$$.

 

There is a very easy way to stay within your budget. Don't make one.

 

My car was built with overtime money over a three year period so there wasn't a budget. My wife asked what was taking so long. I told her I ran out of money. She said to take it out of the bank (she made more money than me). I told her no, it would get built with overtime money or not at all.

 

A budget is something like Bigfoot. A lot of people say they exists but personally I've never seen one.

 

You have a great wife.
And she has a great husband.

 

I always spend more then I planned and thought that is the way its supposed to be.

 

Asking someone if they stayed within their budget is like asking a woman how old she is or how much she weighs.

 

My build mantra is to never never go into debt or take out a loan for a build. Some months buy small parts, some months are great but I never go into debt for builds. It's too easy to do and I've seen too many guys overextend their finances to make a show deadline, etc. I track all my expenses and predict as best I can future costs. Only in hindsight am I accurate.

 

I have built 5 and every rod was double double what I Planned
plus 5x time waiting for others to what I can not