[Grishnakh]

So you'd rather spend all your time in the evenings transiting to a restaurant, waiting around for a table, waiting around for your order to arrive, getting hurried by the server so they can get a new customer in, then transiting back home?

Eating out at a nice sit-down restaurant takes a huge amount of time. I can cook myself a meal at home and eat it in much less time than going out.

The only way it's faster to eat out is if you get fast food takeout, which is absolutely shut nutritionally and will put you into an early grave.

You sound like all the dummies who think I'm wasting time by changing the oil in my car myself. It takes me less time than making an appointment, driving all the way to the dealership, then sitting there and waiting for them to do the work (which probably takes longer than me because they have a bunch of cars to work on and their scheduling isn't perfect, just like a doctor's office), then driving back home. I can do it myself in my garage in 15 minutes. I can't even drive to my nearest dealership in that time. On top of all that, you have to figure how much work time I'm missing in the process, since auto shops aren't open weekends or evenings usually (and especially not dealerships).

[criddell]

What do you do with your old oil?

[Grishnakh]

Any auto parts store will take it. They have a giant metal vat in the back room; you just bring your old oil in, and they tell you to go dump it yourself. I have an Autozone next to the grocery store I normally go to, so it's easy to just swing by and dump it while I'm already out.

[pvdebbe]

Not gp, but I store the old oil in a closed can, back of the shed. While usually there's a waste management charge for oils, in Finland there are occasional events when it's free to deliver oils and whatnot. So I take the few cans then.

[criddell]

The place I take my old oil to they are happy to get it because they sell it. I figure since I'm going to have to take it to them anyway, I might as well let them do it all.