My wife does a really good job at keeping me in check. I have never really considered myself a spender anyway, but with my wife that is even more the case. We also try not to accumulate a ton of junk. It's just more stuff to clean around and dust and maintain. If I am going to spend money on something it needs to serve a practical purpose. I just bought a couple of power tools the other day, but I hemmed and hawed about it for quite some time before I finally pulled the trigger. I'm talking a good year I have been weighing the benefits of it. I agree with you on phones, they are so overpriced. We know they make them for a quarter of what they sell them for. It's like 75% profit. I own Apple stock, so while I am a fan of the company, I don't really own many of the devices. I do have a mac mini at home, it wasn't until they moved to OSX and built their OS on Unix/Linux that I really started to appreciate them more. Finally (sorry this is getting long), I bought a pair of Nike's the other day for the first time. They were $100 which was still like $50 off from the original price. I think they are way overpriced, but my wife pointed out that we buy cheap shoes and they fall apart, so why not try better shoes and see if they hold up better. Sometimes you do get what you pay for!
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I agree with you about the shoes and I have a particular brand that I have a lot of faith in and will always buy them. I never have a lot of shoes though because my luggage space is precious and shoes are one of the biggest occupiers of space in there.
Speaking of the Mac OS: There was a time when one popular Linux distro converted to having the close/minimize/maximize buttons on the left-hand side like Apple does. This was the default setting in the UI and the audience hated it. It was still Linux though so of course you were only a few knowledgeable clicks away from reverting it, which most people did.
When I think about how much "junk" I used to accumulate it is pretty alarming to me. How many people out there just buy stuff for the sake of having a collection of some sort? I think most people.
I'd honestly probably fall into that latter category. I don't have nearly as much stuff as I used to, cut my record collection has always been something I have struggled with. Pumping money into something I can easily access via streaming just seems silly yet I keep doing it! That is funny about that Linux distro. I wish I had more of a development background so I could understand the coding better.
Do you actually fire up the records every now and then? I had a decent record collection when I was in my early 20's but a flood made the decision for me about my collection.
Yeah, I do. I continue to buy some here and there too. I don't listen to them as much as I would like. My setup is in the basement for wife reasons and I just don't get down there too much. I was able to save my records from our basement flood. Not the sleeves but the records are good.