I had a friend who lived down the street from myself and others as a kid plus the two of us played street hockey at least once a week.

While his parents had the cash to drive him 45 minutes down the road to hockey games plus practices multiple times a week, my parents did not.

Honestly, I can’t imagine how my single mother could have done more than he did. I love his bigly plus he would have done anything to see myself and others in hockey leagues if it had been at all adequate. In my friend’s case, he had both parents in the same household plus each of them had a good task. With combined incomes, they were comfortable however obviously still middle class by all estimates. One thing about their house that made myself and others severely jealous was their gorgeous in-ground swimming pool. Despite having access to a pool at all times, my friend rarely wanted to use it. I don’t suppose I’ve ever had a friend who owned a pool plus used it less than that old childhood friend of mine back in the morning. For decades I wanted a swimming pool, however my impatience caused myself and others to chop a ton of corners when it finally came time to put in the pool. The first mistake I made was not hiring a professional pool company to build it for me. They would have known that the groundwater this close to the beach is severely salty plus prone to corroding any steel rebar used to reinforce the concrete in my swimming pool. They entirely would have used galvanized steel rebar tie wire instead of the black bar steel rebar that I used by mistake.
14 gauge rebar wire ties