You can get better, or you can get all gooey, and crotchety, old, pathetic, icky, gross. Not me. Not into it.
I saw that with Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin in 2008. I mean, I came away from the 2008 campaign feeling really icky.
I think as a culture, we don't like conflict or looking at icky stuff - especially in our downtime.
At the beginning of a remodel, money is everything, but as you go along, it becomes secondary to the vision. You can't have the house looking like a glorious jewel and leave the cracked linoleum or the icky light fixture, so you spend and spend and spend. Then one day it suddenly occurs to you that all that play money you've been throwing around is real - and it's in someone else's bank account.