We were brought up by parents who never had much for themselves so had no money at all to give us so we've always worked for what we wanted and if we couldn't afford it we either didn't have it or found some sort of home-made substitute instead. I'm not without means now but I still have a healthy respect for the way I was brought up to be self reliant and I'd rather do something myself, within reason, than pay someone else to do it for me. It's something that seems to be totally lacking in a lot of people now.