My buddy Dave did those kits for like six months straight and swore he was saving money. Then his card got charged twice one week and he sat down and actually added it up, came out to almost $60 for five dinners that were mostly carrots and lentils. He canceled that day and now he hits the taqueria by his place, gets a fat plate for $7, and eats it on his couch. The math on those boxes only works if you never look at the math.

Honestly the plastic trapping dust thing got me, I've been laminating like a chump for years.

The real question isnt job size, its rivet count and access. A squeezer only wins when you can actually get the yoke on the rivet, and thats the part everyone skips over. Five rivets in a spot where a yoke fits? Grab the squeezer. One rivet buried behind a rib where no yoke will reach? Hand gun and bucking bar all day. People act like the squeezer is always faster, but swapping yokes and messing with air pressure eats the time savings if its only a couple rivets.