[lelanthran]

> That is some of the worst advice I've ever heard. Cheap tools are always cheap for a reason.

As a DIY person with a garage filled with every type of tool imaginable, that is some of the best advice that can be given: buy cheap tools, but expensiver tools if it breaks.

IME, most people don't use the cheap tool enough to break it.

[forgetfreeman]

As a contractor who makes a living off his tools daily your read-through is one of the reasons why I know so many people with permanent eye injuries from buying shitty hammers. Cheap tools are dangerous.

[josephg]

Yep. And cheap tools are bad in more ways than life expectancy.

Cheap knives can’t hold an edge. Cheap laptops are slow, have bad battery life and crash. Cheap microphones make your speech more tiring to listen to. And so on.