I think a lot more people are doing diy things right now for multiple reasons. With the warmer weather, the home improvement stores are absolutely packed lately.

One of the great things when doing diy is to also support the local small businesses when you can.

We have been doing a lot of plaster and painting work and thankfully have a lot of the stuff here at home but we needed more paint and some rollers. We three times tried the big box store but the line was out the door with the China flu scare.

We were driving back and my wife just happened to look out the window and saw a sign for a paint store so we said screw it let’s try it out. Turns out he was a second generation small business owner and his family had the paint store open since the 70’s but he’s relocated twice. Thankfully this was a nicer more prominent location and we gladly paid the few extra dollars to buy better quality stuff and kept his balance that much better.

Bit long but support small businesses when you can!