$250/year taxed basically in half=roughly $125. We pay thousands in tools each year to make sure we can effectively do the job, last year I paid over $3000.00 in tools, the year before that about the same. To complain over spending $75 (if it's even that much) to do the job is pathetic. All those shiny tool boxes you see in the shop were not supplied by UPS.
I understand that you have thousands of dollars worth of tools. I have seen some $15,000 tool boxes in the shop.
That is your choice to spend that kind of money on a tool box.
You say you have spent $3,000 per year for the past 2 years?
On what. If you had no tools at all, I can understand it.
UPS supplies all the specialty tools. Air guns, jacks, grease guns etc.
You need your own hand tools. And I understand buying the good ones. Snap-on, Matco etc. They need to last.
I'm not busting your chops, but if you've been a mechanic for awhile, you already have your full set of tools.
What could you have bought in the past 2 years that cost $6,000?
Besides replacing every tool you had.
