When you see a Swiffer Wet Jet in the store and refuse to spend $22 on one when you have all of the parts at home to build one.
When you haggle on the price of a used weed-eater at Lowe's.
When you spend $1000 on tools to make the parts that save you $50 in your Challenge car budget.
When you lust over a P71.
When you're heartbroken that the last taillight bulb put you over $2010.
Wait, I still have the ECLIPSE!!!!! (What is FMV on a 275,000 mile totalled 20 Y/O car?)
I need to hijack this...........I am 25% Bohemian and I have been this way my whole life.........I never had a moment to realize that "I am Now GRM".
Isn't everyone GRM?
When you stop counting your time as valuable but somehow make a mountain out of the price of everyone else's labor.
When you have collected all the tools needed to build a car from scratch.
... when the odometer gear on my E28 BMW stripped a tooth and I used JB Weld to mold a new teeth on the gear. (still works btw)
driver109x wrote: ... when the odometer gear on my E28 BMW stripped a tooth and I used JB Weld to mold a new teeth on the gear. (still works btw)
When you read something like ^^this^^ and think it's a great idea.
When you realise that with a bit of ingenuity and careful spending, you can have a cheap car that's just as cool and fun as something something shiny and brand new that cost an exorbitant amount of money.
when you get all pie eyed at a new refrigerator box .
footinmouth almost wrote: when you get all pie eyed at a new Yard sale refrigerator box .
Because you want to use the coils in your challenge project!
When you have random car parts laying all over your bedroom because you are out of room in the garage/storage shed.
you read the first issue someone gives you and think "I'm NOT the only one!!!"
you consider selling your expensive (read: not paid for) sports car because you can probably buy something with your tax return that could be cool with enough work even if it wasn't as fast as the car you sold...because then you'd have a budget to DO the work that the cheap car needs!
when you Manhood is threatened by your wife/girlfriend if you purchase another sub $1000 car...
when you find the words "Berkeley" or "E36 M3" offensive
You know you're GRM when you carry a blank Bill of Sale in the glove compartment of your daily driver, just in case you need to buy a car, any kind of car, that you happen to see on the side of the road, regardless of whether or not it has a For Sale sign in the window.
you talk to everyone about chape cars and they talk about high pwered cars for racing and you metion about a nova that does 10's for 2g's...
If you know personally not one, but 2 people named "A. Nelson"! 
...and they're BOTH uber cool! 
Your good car has 240k miles on it.
You would never buy name brand Cheerios or store brand oil/filters
You don't replace an appliance until you have taken it apart
no one asks you for a ride more than once. The last person I drove home asked if I had a woman with an oversized check waiting in my driveway.
You're GRM when you play the V-8 fits game. You know, looking for hours on craigslist (a GRM requirement) at cars and mentally seeing if a Chevy 350 will fit. Extra points when idle thought turns to action.
Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote: When you stop counting your time as valuable but somehow make a mountain out of the price of everyone else's labor.
+1
i bought rollcage tubing for a car i dont even own today.
now i need to find the car
You walk through the tool section planning your next project just to have an excuse to buy more tools.
You make it to the second page of this post and agree with almost everything said.
EVERYTHING said. everything
You live in a 2 driver household & have 6 cars...& 2 run.
After hitting the deer (& doing $3700 in damage to the $3800 car) you figure that replacing the radiator support yourself will save enough money to let for the welded...& so you wife buys you a welder.
When you sell 1 car because you are out of room then turn around and buy 3 more.
When you rebuild carbs on the kitchen table.
When you can look around and see several car parts in your living room as you type this.
Morbid wrote: When you have random car parts laying all over your bedroom because you are out of room in the garage/storage shed.
hehehe, i have some parts in my living room as decore, and thats not why I am getting a devorce 
When you consult this forum for pet names, plumbing information and support in relationship troubles....and listen to the responses
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