the rich and comfortably well off

 A rich guy I knew would have the credit to buy an expensive product, use it, clean it, and return it a few days later.
He'd have some patter stored in his brain to tell the sales guy.

Well, anyway I thought of that, when a guy made a kid's stepping stool on a 

"This old house" episode.
A stepping stool is cheap.
Well, $150 isn't cheap but compare that to a "CNC router" used on the show and a thing making dados and biscuits and varnish and accessories (like adhesive tape and work tables)

My dremel tool and scroll saw and the drill are all myself could possibly ever afford. That worm-drive saw was a splurge but it was too loud to use ever except to make my excellent table (biscuit-free, no dados)
Buy all that shit, impress people at garage parties (I guess) or make crappy youtube videos, lol

Of course, you could take back the router and the work table, so maybe this is pointless (The host most prolly got the router for free.)

Most of the shows don't build stuff, 

https://www.google.com/search?q=what+carpentry+did+jesus+do&oq=what+carpentry+did+jesus+do

they cook things on astronomically expensive kitchen utensils.
My cheese-f'n-slicer was $14 at Kroger.
A La Creuset frying pan (whatever), $150-400.

Donate so these guys can tell you how to cook and build stuff......

Yeah, I prolly shouldn't write this, I don't have enough examples, but it's fun watching them custom-make food and furniture in custom studios costing half a million.

Lessee...paints and brushes, canvas, (IDK) $50,000??

https://www.reddit.com/r/HappyTrees/comments/148q3oj/bob_ross_method_average_starting_cost/ They don't know either but it's lots cheaper than $50,000

Not Rich and usually uncomfortable, I seek a game that will cause me to forget (the floor, the rent, the bugs, and Google-News (or most of it):

No Man's Sky

Is it really a glorified cartoon?
Is it only for people with OCD?

     (Do you spend eons building and collecting?)

It's still a big chunk of change, it never ends, you have to read tons (I'm told),

But people make it sound so tempting.

OK I'll keep looking, and I already wrote tons on my searches.
I don't want a cartoon game,

I hate puzzles,
I like (maybe) story mode where you feel like you've accomplished something

or saved someone.
In the end, everyone likes you, you're rescued, or you own tons and get to sit on a throne.

Fallout new Vegas (in a word.)

 Grubby freedom-fighter guy fights undead democrats and wishes for a better yesterday

"They'll blow up real good," said Snake

I'm dissing a game I never heard of, but it's google's answer to "death-stranding clone"

"No man's Sky" vs "Outer wilds"
o...k
(I guess)
No horses nor zombies, I hope

OK the next couple of entries will bitch about not being able to make fuel.

I can condense it, I can make freaking-jello, just not fuel.

In goes one useless ingredient, out comes one ingredient.

I'm missing the part about other ingredients.

I'll totally guess a decent refinery exists somewhere, miles from where I am.

And how would I know any of this?

"Dude," reddit scoffs, "The game tells you".

The game tells you squat.

My "no man's sky" option (maybe) is to continually restart so the planet I get crashed on doesn't burn or freeze me to death.
My first game started pretty decent but I ran out of fuel and didn't have the proper refineries and refiner-accessories. 
The second time (now) I got much better at not running out of fuel (I walked) but the part about the refineries never came up.

Hank Hill in space.