For many tasks, I would even prefer working on a solution for an hour instead of doing grunt work for half that time. Most often, I simply can't stand that kind of work, so I have no problem at all with taking some extra time to do things my way(TM).

I've found these 29 minute solutions can often be re-purposed and reused beyond the original intent, in even more innovative ways.

Yep, that goes without saying :). But even if the actual code/module never gets reused, writing something similar will take much less time in the future, even from scratch...which is good because I'm not quite yet lazy enough to abstract code as I write it...