BrewBeemer
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I don't really have much trouble there. My wife likes the beer enough I can buy pretty much whatever I want within reason.
"Reason" being defined by an amount less than our income by enough margin to not interfere with regular meals, keeping the electric/water/cable on, and not significantly impacting her shopping budget.
We live far enough within our means that I can get away with spending the money to do things pretty well. Not the fanciest stuff, or even probably the next fanciest.
Hell, let's just avoid the word "fancy". I'm more of a "does it work? Okay, does spending twice as much make the beer twice as good or half the work?" kind of guy.
I must admit the wife became more supportive of the hobby, in the beginning she wasn't thrilled until she had friends homebrews plus later noted the prices of foreign and dark biers I like.
We maintain within our needs, the cat eats first LOL. I got the go ahead to purchase future needed brewing items just not all at once.
On "fancy" I tend to go the extra step $$$ on quality items buy once good not twice like increasing brewery sizes in many steps just go big in gallonage once, well twice sold the last one now knowing what I want.
My past track record 35+ years entering show original competition of Norton's Matchless and BMW's the wife knows project overrun costs are more than initally quoted, can't BS the receipt pile.
Far as "fancy" make it neat but not gaudy.
To make a mill in the $100 range would be impossible unless machine work and materials were for free aka made in China or the love of machining, ain't going to happen. Plenty of disclosures about safety, aka CYA the manufacture.
Hats off to a new mill in the making, BTW I see the knurling tips are knocked down on mills these days to prevent excessive grain shredding.