I'm inherently lazy. So, if I'm going to spend time doing something.... I do it once - correctly.
You are the only other person I have ever heard say that.
The flip side is also I don't have the money to be doing things twice. It's either do it once properly or don't do it at all.
I think I'm in the running for the Guiness Book of Records for World's Longest engine rebuild.
I got the engine in 2005. I had the machine work done in 2012. It's still a bare block on my engine stand.