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caroonth t1_j9b95x0 wrote

It's all a crapshoot. I'm happiest with super cheap purchases that accidentally end up being BIFL, looking at the $1 solid brass hose nozzles I picked up at Big Lots years ago. I'm most disappointed when I spend a lot and the product doesn't live up to my expectations (1990s Electrolux vacuum, decades later I'm still pissed!). I like to plan good purchases, but if the choice is not absolutely clear, buy cheap and hope for the best, knowing I can replace it once or twice for the same cost as the better option, meanwhile hoping an even better option comes along.

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OutdoorzExplorerz OP t1_j9bdafd wrote

That’s a good policy. I think I’ll adopt that. I think my biggest issue is buying a lot of stuff I don’t need, this leaving me with only one option (the cheapest one) when it comes time to buy something I really need. My house ends Ip looking like a college kid’s dorm because of that.

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caroonth t1_j9bimrs wrote

Consumerism pressure is real. I do think after you reach that point of seeing how much useless or cheap crap you own, you get really turned off by it all and hone in on what you really want and need. The last few years the air fryer has been trendy. Friends can't believe I don't have one. Family wants to buy me one as a gift. I don't want it, don't need it, and people don't understand that. I know in a few years that would be sitting on a shelf in storage and, like you, I'd be thinking about the money wasted anytime I see it. We're in a heavy consumer society.

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