This included removing all weed / growth, installing a brick border, laying out landscaping cloth and stone.

It also meant changing out of my W2 clothes, into construction clothes at the job site and working for at least a few hours every night. 

Yes, they take a little longer to dry clothes (which is why they are coupled with high-efficency / high-spin RPM washers), but use a fraction of the energy.

I find it interesting how people are grossed out by a used mattress but then there are plenty of those who buy used clothes and shoes at consignment stores (for me, I think uses clothes are a lot worse).

paint ball places I have gone to needed a very sizable investment in the guns and clothing to rent to those playing paint ball. 

I would have scrubbed the walls and ceilings with detergent and water and rinsed well with cloths before priming/painting.

Honestly, it seemed like the emperor - no matter how many best-selling books and seminars he's done - had no clothes.  

They see a 40-year-old woman driving a Lexus and wearing nice clothes and assume she must be rich.

Just keep your clothes on while you are in the back yard and the neighbors shouldnt complain 

I suggested she put on some clothes, to which she responded "That's bullsh*t!"