I would recommend troublefreepool.com if you don't want to pay someone each week to maintain your pool. Teaches you everything you need to know about pool care.
Then you have to go to the store and get your own chems, risk staining up the carpet in the back seat or trunk if they spill and you are not in a truck. Storing the chems... actually having to analyze the water and adjust the chem to balance the Ph....
Naw man, I ain't doing that. I pay $20 a week for a guy to come twice a week, he brings his own chems - I have to buy nothing - he conditions the water, balances it, skims off the top, scrubs down the sides and runs the vac over the bottom. $20 covers all that twice a week.