What is cheap?
I have always been a bit confused on what is cheap. I was probably a 3rd or 4th grader when I had my first “cheap” encounter. I was with my step-dad Bud. We were in the local grocery store. Bending and searching threw wrapped chunks of cheese. Bud said to me “the cheapest is the best”. Years later I was with my son in a Wal-Mart in Central Minnesota when he said, “the cheapest is the best” referring to a putting golf club.
Nevertheless, when I shop I always get ripped off by the cheapest. I once bought a pink silky blouse in K-mart to wear at Mitch’s baptism in Medora. I washed the fabulous silky pink blouse -and walah –it was instantly transformed into pieces. It was now a long narrow unrecognizable something with buttons falling off.
I have paid a fortune for items I don’t like and they last forever. Do stores have to make all of the neat, cool stuff nearly disposable? Does the words “good cheap stuff” not ever describe quality? Is “high quality” referring to a shopping purchase you’ll never use or never even need?
Am I wrong & were Bud and Chad both right?
Nevertheless, when I shop I always get ripped off by the cheapest. I once bought a pink silky blouse in K-mart to wear at Mitch’s baptism in Medora. I washed the fabulous silky pink blouse -and walah –it was instantly transformed into pieces. It was now a long narrow unrecognizable something with buttons falling off.
I have paid a fortune for items I don’t like and they last forever. Do stores have to make all of the neat, cool stuff nearly disposable? Does the words “good cheap stuff” not ever describe quality? Is “high quality” referring to a shopping purchase you’ll never use or never even need?
Am I wrong & were Bud and Chad both right?
posted by Deb | 2:53 PM
1 Comments:
You know I don't remember the putting club story. I do sometimes go with the cheapest if I know that quality doesn't matter. For example when it comes to my kids quality is not relevant. If you pay a million dollars for it or just a few dollars they will have it destroyed in a matter of minutes. So in that case I vote for cheapest as it will cost you less to have it immediately destroyed.
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