Some cheapo Harbor Freight tools last a lifetime if you only use them a couple times a year. No sense in buying something very heavy duty when it won't see much duty.
I feel like "buy it for life" is just a different kind of (hipster?) snobbery.
I feel like "buy it for life" is just a different kind of (hipster?) snobbery.
My rule is buy so that when it dies I’m not sad. That varies for different pieces of equipment.
Fortunately, you can buy batteries for most popular tool brands long after the brand stops supporting them, and in a pinch you can buy adapters to make brand a batteries work on brand b tools
Milwaukee continues to sell batteries for their far outdated NiCAD.
I often repeat the phrase "buy it nice, or buy it twice if not thrice". I've done the buy it cheap to get 'er done type of thing, and I've also bought the good item because it was going to make a shitty job that much easier.