Simple or Not?

My husband is an awesome man who really goes the extra mile to support our family in whatever we set out to do. He will try to build, fix, or do anything that is asked of him. I have asked a great deal of him in the last couple of years as part of my quest to be more sustainable. He has managed to build so many things like rain collection systems and chicken coops. I would like to think that I am a simple girl but he says I am not. Simple would be asking for a new ring or some business intelligence software for my computer. These are things he could buy online. The things I ask of him require skill and knowledge to build or create. They require time and effort to be expended on his part. I hadn't looked at things in that light before. Buying something on my behalf is entirely different from creating something out of raw materials.