Yeah, we have done a lot of our home remodeling and yard projects ourselves, but anymore, there is a time/cost analysis and often we pay someone else to do it. I usually work 50+ hour work weeks plus volunteer work, and DH is usually somewhere in the 60-80 hour work week (which is absurd) - and my knee joints don't function well without doing yoga regularly, so that's pretty much a mandatory part of my life too. So when it comes down to whether to pay a housekeeper or repairman for something we COULD do ourselves but would either have to use vacation days from work to do it or give up skiing/biking... I'll pay, if it makes sense.
So there are plenty of things that we are perfectly capable of doing (I mean, we've added a bathroom, but we paid someone to do the plumbing and just did the lighting and tile and whatnot ourselves. Tiled the entire basement ourselves, but paid someone to do drywall. Redid the kitchen and I did all the floor tile and backsplash myself but paid someone to do the countertops. We removed all the carpet from the house and prepped the surfaces for hardwood, but paid someone to sand and finish it...) We didn't have enough vacation days to do it all ourselves, and at some point, time off from work (whether job or housework) is more valuable than having more money. If we didn't pay people to do things for us sometimes, we would never have any time to ski or bike at all.
