My wife and I agreed early on in our marriage on one major thing-buy what you need at the moment, but save up for the best. The need will get you through the moment and by the time it destroys itself, it should give enough time to cover the saving for the best item. We did that with a video camera early on. In 2003, we bought a $100 camera. Two years later, we bought one of the first HD cameras with an internal hard drive that would sell now for $300 brand new, but we bought it for $1,800. Our hope was to have HD video of our children growing up. We do :) Many were recording in standard definition at that time, but I'm happy to be able to show my kids really good video of their childhood throughout their childhood. This applied in many areas of our life.
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That's definitely a good point and perhaps what I may have alluded to just not in the correct way. We've all bought that cheap 100$ printer/item to get us what we needed it to do but when it breaks, I think it's important to not keep buying the cheap things but opt for the one that's a good quality.
I'm glad that you and your wife have done this! It's important for sure and doesn't lose importance as time goes on it seems.