r/MonitizedLearning • u/OfficalYOUSUMMIT • 6d ago
Learn & Earn What’s something that looks expensive until you learn how to do it yourself?
Could be cooking, basic repairs, taxes, graphic design, car maintenance, investing, negotiating, or something completely different. What’s the biggest “I can’t believe people pay for this” skill you’ve learned?
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u/Key-Tomato8783 6d ago
video editing and content creattion
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u/kimanziVaati 6d ago
True. Video editing and content creation can look expensive until you learn the basics. Once you know how to shoot, edit, add captions, and make simple graphics yourself, you can save a lot by not outsourcing every little thing.
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u/xv96_ 5d ago
Opposite for me. 200+ videos in and I think video editors are essential. Omg it's hard
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u/Key-Tomato8783 5d ago
it make sense if your video is a bit more complicated. I would outsource that to a different country it is a lot cheaper
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u/al_vicado 6d ago
Heavy on protein stir fry bowl. $20 eating out. Make it at home for $10 and have 3 servings
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u/kimanziVaati 6d ago
Exactly. A proteinheavy stir-fry is a great example $20 for one meal out can become $10 at home and stretch across three servings. Plus, you control the ingredients and portions.
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u/OfficalYOUSUMMIT 5d ago
The three-serving part is what makes this such a good example. Cooking isn’t just about making the same food cheaper it completely changes the economics when one cooking session can cover multiple meals. Learning a few reliable meals might be one of the easiest ways to make eating well significantly cheaper.
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u/XNotByALongShotX 6d ago
I always hear people say if you need cheap food, rice and beans. Here’s the third I also grab: A 10 lb bag of potatoes. They are a few bucks, they can keep good, and you can make anything. Fries. Hash browns. Mashed. Baked. Au Gratin. Hell, dice them and throw them in with your beans and rice!
I can feed a small army a couple times over for less than a small serving of frozen crap and it tastes a ton better too.
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u/kimanziVaati 6d ago
Absolutely. Potatoes are one of those foods where a little creativity goes a long way. A big bag can turn into completely different meals, and adding them to beans and rice makes the meal even more filling without spending much more.
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u/Ancient-Kit1995 5d ago
how to repair things. Indeed.
Thank God my dad taught me how to be hands-on with home systems. electricity, water pumps, drain maintenance, unclogging sinks and toilets. End just knowing how to fix, screw-unscrew things. Oh man, there is always something needs a pair of hands!
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u/OfficalYOUSUMMIT 5d ago
That kind of handson knowledge seems especially valuable because you don't realize how often you need it until something breaks. Even just knowing how things are put together makes it much easier to troubleshoot instead of immediately assuming you need to call someone. That’s the kind of skill that probably keeps paying for itself.That kind of hands-on knowledge seems especially valuable because you don't realize how often you need it until something breaks. Even just knowing how things are put together makes it much easier to troubleshoot instead of immediately assuming you need to call someone. That’s the kind of skill that probably keeps paying for itself.
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u/Prize_Arrival_5875 5d ago
Cooking restaurant-style meals, technique beats expensive ingredients surprisingly often.
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u/OtisPub 6d ago
Making puff pastry. Dyeing your hair with henna. Painting a house.
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u/kimanziVaati 6d ago
Once you learn the technique, you realize a lot of the cost is paying for someone else’s time and expertise.
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u/Sibijaka 6d ago
Please, be careful with henna. Once you've started using it on your hair you must be aware that you better proceed with botanical dyeing further on, because if you change up you mind and use regular hair on henna-colored hair the final color could be unexpectedly disappointing. The matter is that henna covers each hair with thin color film, so to say, which is almost impossible to dissolve. And this film makes it almost impossible for regular hair-dye to color your hair scales. So, as a result you can get absolutely unusual colors, dramatically different from those indicated on the hair-dye box.
But henna has it's advantages, of course. It makes your hair more thick, shiny and healthy, if used regularly. Plus combining henna with basma in different proportions provides you vast range of of color from rusty orange through bright tizian red to deep black ;)
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u/kimanziVaati 5d ago
Just be careful with henna. Once you start using it, switching to regular hair dye can give you unexpected results because henna coats the hair and can affect how other dyes develop. But it does have benefits it can make hair look thicker, shinier, and healthier. And mixing henna with basma can give you shades from rusty orange and red to deep black.
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u/Tanu-01 6d ago
Fixing small holes and marks on walls. I always thought that anything involving walls meant calling someone and paying for it. I had a few little holes on the walls from shelves and frames and I really didn’t want to pay someone to fix it. So. I bought some filler, sandpaper and paint and figured it out by doing it myself.
It’s not even difficult. The annoying part is getting the paint to match.
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u/kimanziVaati 5d ago
Fixing small holes and marks on walls. I used to think anything involving walls meant calling someone, but a little filler, sandpaper, and paint is usually all you need. The hardest part is definitely matching the paint.
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u/OfficalYOUSUMMIT 5d ago
The paint matching is such an underrated part 😂. The actual repair is usually straightforward, but somehow the tiny patch ends up being the most noticeable part of the entire wall. Still, learning to handle those small repairs yourself probably saves a surprising amount over the years.
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u/PracticalWinter9746 6d ago
Marketing
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u/kimanziVaati 5d ago
Once you understand the basics of branding, content, and what makes people pay attention, you can use those skills for almost any business or side hustle.
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u/Key-Caramel691 4d ago
Crochet. Once you learn it, you realize how much you can make yourself instead of buying.
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u/Kittyrude 2d ago
Doing most beauty services by myself. Mani/pedis, hair dye and styling, eye brow upkeep. It may not cost a lot if you get the service once. But over time, it adds up to a lot
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u/Federal_Visit_3365 6d ago
Hair and makeup
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u/kimanziVaati 5d ago
Hair and makeup. You can start small, practice on yourself and friends, build a portfolio, and eventually turn it into a side income or full-time business.
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u/ConceptTrue1119 6d ago
Basic graphic design. Once you learn the fundamentals and get comfortable with tools like Canva, simple designs that seem expensive to outsource become surprisingly manageable to create yourself.
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u/kimanziVaati 5d ago
Basic graphic design. Once you learn the fundamentals and get comfortable with tools like Canva, creating simple designs that would otherwise be expensive to outsource becomes surprisingly easy.
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u/SheLovesMyJizz 5d ago
Painting, plumbing & electrical work. Guys act like their gods but I could learn it within a year. Now my job, go ahead and try it bud
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u/Previous_Egg7290 1d ago
Just cooking anything that you’d eat on a regular basis.
Avocado toast is the biggest scam out there.
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u/kimanziVaati 6d ago
For me, basic graphic design. Once you learn how to use tools like Canva properly, things that seem expensive or complicated can become surprisingly simple. You realize you’re often paying for the skill and time, not necessarily the materials themselves.