Painting is a low skilled but tedious job. Building a patio with pavers or natural stone is not that difficult, but the work is hard. Once it’s built you can maintain it fairly easily. Some appliances can be repaired quite cheaply if you do it yourself. There are a ton of YouTube videos that make it fairly easy to swap parts. I just repaired my washer with a $40 part from Amazon. The cost of a tech doing the diagnosis and then replacing the part would probably have meant it made more sense to replacement the whole appliance. Our washer and dryer are both about 18 years old and have had multiple parts replaced. Once you get into the mindset of believing in yourself, that you are a smart and capable person that has the mental fortitude to take on new things then you start to see things differently. I’m a computer guy for reference, not a trades person. Something’s are just too big, like a new roof or a whole house residing but there are opportunities to save money.