02-19-2014, 09:01 PM
To be a college kid again......i'd give up alot for that experience a second time. Being in corporate finance, there's also a general economic concept known as opportunity cost......my time, as a professional and with a baby on the way, is limited, which tells me that it costs me a lot less to buy an upper, carrier, and misc accessories together than to machine it myself or run around to gather all the individual componants.......sounds like that is not the case for you though, which is totally cool. To each their own.

