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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

More frugal than buy-for-life but: good shoes. Twice the price but they last way longer. It's cheaper in the end.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah yes, the Sam Vimes "Boots" Theory of Economic Unfairness:

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. ... A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I used to work at a more chain sporting goods store. This one dude would come in every couple weeks to buy the same shitty work boots, he would always talk about how much he loved them. Couldn't help but think how much money he would've saved by just buying a good pair that would last him years. Being poor is expensive..

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll add that using a shoe horn has tripled the life of my shoes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Plus it's way easier to put them on instead of fumbling around with the back of the shoe/boot.