My bother who lives in Florida has an extremely well-equipped shop--air conditioned, dust collection, well lit, surround sound, etc. etc.  As he has carefully explained to his wife over the years, "if you don't buy quality tools, you cannot do quality work."

Of course, one of the reasons he can endulge his tool mania is because he builds a good building so his house costs roughly 10% to heat and cool compared to the neighborhood average.

"Remember the I35W bridge--who needs terrorists when there are Republicans"