During the dot com boom I bought my first car by doing a weekend of overtime at my day job, on an emergency project. They asked me how much it would take for me to work the weekend, I said the number that was the price of a car, my boss said OK.

(it was a classic 1972 FIAT 500L, it was ~£3200 at the time IIRC)

Heh I had a similar freelance story.

I was told flat out by freelance clients I was (too) cheap. But one time I quoted a much larger project than I was used to, and the client (who was also a relative of someone close to me) insisted on a higher number.

It ended up roughly being the down payment on my first house.

That is amazing