I log every hour
I spend on my car.

Someone asked what the car had cost me. I said "about ten grand?" — and then realised I had no idea whether that was close. Not roughly. At all. The receipts were in three places, the hours were nowhere, and the tools had quietly folded themselves into the parts bill.

Every build thread I read had the same hole in it. Plenty of adjectives — quick job, cheap fix, a weekend's work — and almost no numbers anybody could check. So this site exists to be the opposite: if a figure appears here, a timer or a receipt produced it. That rule is why so much of it currently reads zero.