Less than 10 hours, but I make an attempt to spend time at least a couple hours with my one year old boy every night!
Well, if you ask my wife....it's TOO MUCH FREAKIN TIME!!!!!!! Not enough. I love it, I could do it all the time. She doesn't understand that and only seems to be ok with me being in the garage if she is out doing something that she needs or wants. Sucks.
It really depends on the week and work. Up at 4 am, usually not home before 530-6 pm, and usually back in bed by 9-9:30...with household chores, spending the obligatory time with the wife, etc it's rare to get more than a couple hours in the garage any more. The weekends is the best chance, but it's usually a trade - if I spend too much time out during the week, I have to spend "spousal" time come Sat / Sun. I'm not complaining - she's the one that encourages me to buy what I need (or want!).
Under 8. Would love to spend more time, maybe when I retire, if I don't croak first. If you ask my wife though she would say I live out there and also thinks that I talk to strippers and sluts here on the HAMB.
I try to work on a project one to two hours a day and more on weekends. You might add how much time do you spend on the HAMB and other social networking during the week to your poll. For me, a lot more than I should. Larry T
I voted 10 to 20. Thats when I am workin. Usaually 2 hours each night after work then about 6 hours on Saturday or Sunday. Now that I am laid off I spend about 6 hours a day on my truck and none on the weekend.
Now that I'm retired my body is racked with problems (arthritis and bad back) that I have a hard time getting in and around an old car. My younger days I'd come home from work and spend time at the shop (3 other guys and I rented a shop to work on and store our cars) not every night but 5 or 10 hours a week plus week-ends on occasion.
family comes first, but then again i can teach my kids about the cars i love and do both at the same time.
on HER projects - not nearly enough (apparently) on MY projects - every waking moment (according to her) so what? this is why I pay her the big bucks...put up with my hobby dj
I'm in between the 10-20 and the 20-30 group, but anouther 8 or 9 hrs on here or in old car mags each week
I can only get a solid 10-15 hours on weekends working on the cars. BUT, I spend about 40 hours a week thinking about working on the cars a week!
i used to work on my toys a lot ... then just a little when i was working 65 hours a week.. now that i'm unemployed ,, one would guess a lot ,, but ,, now i'm dealing with some health issues... havn't been able to work on them for over a year... finally getting a little better.. should be able to start working on my projects sometime this year ,, i hope....
About 10-20 a week right now getting ready for for another season of cruising. Most lately trying to get the damn fuel gauge working. Its amazing how much time you can spend on something so damn simple !!!
I get bursts of enthusiasm and go hell for leather on the project for about 2 MONTHS THEN GET NOTHING DONE FOR TWO MONTHS SO.... I gotta reorganised myself however by the time you do the necessities of life (mow the lawns, help the wife, support the children) it seems time has slipped by.Now when I was in my early twenties I had none of those and cars were it!!! Got to admit I am always building a car in my mind - every day all day
The more money I have the more time I spend. I make as many parts as I can but gas and wire cost money. I will stay on projects continually When I get the cash flow problem solved!!!
Two x-wives and no kids (probably why they are x's) so I work my job and play with my toys !!!!! Life is good !!!!
Retired from the fire department and working part time teaching at the Local College and still have a hard time finding 10 - 20 hours to work on my projects.
Less than 10 hours per week. I have a wife and two sons so they get most of my time not spent at work. I wish I could spend more time on my projects but the family comes first. There will be plenty of time to work on my projects when the kids are grown and out of the house.
Life seems to get in the way of spending more than a few hours a week on hot rod projects even though I see to always be busy on my days off. I've got a vacuum cleaner torn apart in front of me now and have to go find a new roller for it along with going to check on when the guy I bought my 8-BA from wants to pull it out of the Jeep Wagon it is sitting in now. But that part is project involved so not lost project wise. Right now, work schedule, weather, other things around here that need to be take care of ( vacuum cleaner repair, weed burning, lawn mowing and tree trimming) seem to get in the way of rod building. Add in daily driver repair this weekend. I'm not deadline driven (been there done that too many times) so any time I get to work on projects is quality time spent.
3 kids (4 month old, 4 year old, 13 year old), 100 year old house we're restoring/remodeling, career, wife... and the wifey and i have a company also - so more work... i've got a few projects. if you don't count time chasing parts, i spend maybe 4 hours / week on average on the project car/motorcycle/whatever. mix in other things like troubleshooting and fixing my plasma cutter (that took a good 5 hours to fix), re-arranging/cleaning my garage all the damn time, and time searching for tools i just set down 24 seconds ago... then let's not forget that every time i get going on some particular part of a project i'm "needed" to do something else. one day. one day something, anything, will get done.
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