Yeah, you do the work yourself.  I understand that.  We do ours ourselves, too.  I just don't understand what that has to do with the value of the work. 

I'm assuming you are doing it correctly.  We try to do ours correctly, of course.

If you are doing it correctly, why would it be worth any less when you do it then when someone else does it? 

You seem to keep saying it doesn't cost anything when you do it.  Doesn't your work have just as much value as someone else's would?   Or are you saying that if you weren't doing this, then you would not be doing anything else productive instead?

If you want to rebuild planters for nothing, I've got some you can do.  I'm sure i could find some neighbors who would like to have theirs done, too. 

What is with the terrific aversion to assigning costs where they belong?