Time and Money
smalljaw 01/15/2005 - 07:15 Roll Your Own
My methodology will be to accumulate all of the real dollars that I spend on this project and only the amounts of time that I spend building what I need to finish the project. The final result with reflect the amount of money out-of-pocket and the amount of time needed to do the work. What won't be reflected is the cost for materials that I already have on hand and amount of time doing research, shopping, and recording my journey. For example, writing this entry down or the wood I have on hand will not count but building a spline finding tool and any off hand additional hardware would. Cash amounts will be rounded up to the nearest dollar and time amounts will be rounded up to the nearest hour because nothing really takes less than an hour anyway.
Cost to date:
My methodology will be to accumulate all of the real dollars that I spend on this project and only the amounts of time that I spend building what I need to finish the project. The final result with reflect the amount of money out-of-pocket and the amount of time needed to do the work. What won't be reflected is the cost for materials that I already have on hand and amount of time doing research, shopping, and recording my journey. For example, writing this entry down or the wood I have on hand will not count but building a spline finding tool and any off hand additional hardware would. Cash amounts will be rounded up to the nearest dollar and time amounts will be rounded up to the nearest hour because nothing really takes less than an hour anyway.
Cost to date:
- Cash: $56
- Time: 0 Hours
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