Do It Yourself Or Hire Someone?

[jeffrey]

Mid-autumn means pumpkins and football, crisp days and cooler nights. And for many homeowners it means the toil of getting their places ready for winter.

Some homeowners must wonder whether it's all worth the time and effort: Are they really saving so much money doing-it-themselves or would it make more sense to hire out the jobs?

Before embarking on any project, homeowners really need to ask themselves three questions, says Lou Manfredini, who is Ace Hardware's "Helpful Handyman." These are:

1.) Do I have the faintest idea what I'm doing?

2.) Can I make the situation worse?

3.) Will going it alone bring harm to myself or to my family?

If the answer to the first is no or the answers to either of the last two is yes, Manfredini says, hire someone else to do the job... [read more at money.cnn.com]