I’ve always done everything myself including building my own house. My wife is the same. Her father and brothers were in construction so she just assumed every man knows how to do all this stuff. Her father was staining his deck when he was 94 while in a wheelchair. My father was the same . I would go visit him and find him on a ladder or on the roof when he was in his mid 80s. I’m getting pretty old myself now, 72, but I just can’t bring myself to hire people to do work at my house. It’s not the money, it’s just something I like to do myself. My wife and I are always amused when we see people that don’t know how to do anything. My sister and her husband can’t do the simplest task. They recently hired a plumber to change the hoses on the back of their washing machine.