male vs. female: putting in a rain barrel

I want to attach a downspout to the rain gutter on the garage so that I can hook up a rain barrel to it. That way, I will be able to water the garden with harvested rainwater this summer. Very ecologically-responsible, no?

But my husband's mind cannot comprehend this. His reasoning is, that if we are going to attach a new downspout to the gutters then we should replace the gutters, since they are old and crappy. And if you are replacing the gutters, then you simply MUST replace the garage roof. And if we're replacing the roof, then we might as well rip off all of the old stucco and make sure there's no rot, which of course there most certainly IS, so might as well jack the garage up, pour a new stem wall and put in a decent sill plate. But why should the garage have better stem walls & sill plates than our house? We should definitely rip apart the top 4' of the finished basement walls to attach the sill plates to the foundation; that way, we can get earthquake insurance! But that old concrete foundation wall is like chalk, so why not just jack the house up on blocks and pour some good, 7000 psi concrete stem walls to attach our new sill plates to! And while we're at it, we might as well add a couple feet of head height to the basement, it's only logical. And of course, if we're doing all this we should really get all of the knob & tube out of the house and re-pull all new electrical. That means some attic work, so while we're up there, we can pop in a couple of dormers, insulate, and create that 3rd bedroom!

So no, I will NOT have that rain barrel by this summer. We simply can't afford it.