Comments on: When is buying cheap better than buying quality? http://www.frugalfruitlands.net/2008/07/22/when-is-buying-cheap-better-than-buying-quality/ Living Less Large in Central MA Fri, 16 Jul 2010 21:52:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Brooke http://www.frugalfruitlands.net/2008/07/22/when-is-buying-cheap-better-than-buying-quality/comment-page-1/#comment-662 Brooke Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:32:08 +0000 http://www.frugalfruitlands.net/2008/07/22/when-is-buying-cheap-better-than-buying-quality/#comment-662 Trends in clothing is also another example. Wal-Mart and Target trendy tops will hold together till that babydoll top goes out of fashion. And when it just looks like another maternity top, you can give it to your favorite preggo and not feel like its money wasted. Trends in clothing is also another example. Wal-Mart and Target trendy tops will hold together till that babydoll top goes out of fashion. And when it just looks like another maternity top, you can give it to your favorite preggo and not feel like its money wasted.

]]> By: Chad http://www.frugalfruitlands.net/2008/07/22/when-is-buying-cheap-better-than-buying-quality/comment-page-1/#comment-656 Chad Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:35:38 +0000 http://www.frugalfruitlands.net/2008/07/22/when-is-buying-cheap-better-than-buying-quality/#comment-656 Hmm. Food for thought, for sure. I like nice pens. I own a not too expensive fountain pen. A regular pen would write as well and equating refills to bottled ink, could last as long, costing far less. But the experience would be different. So buy the $40 cardigan, if you like the qualities it has above those of the $10 one, but don't wear that one at work. Perhaps this is best wrapped up in understanding the full functions and purposes behind an item. The fountain pen should not be compared to the ballpoint, unless you derive no value or pleasure from the fountain pen experience. Also, there may be times when quality does last longer. But not longer enough to make up the difference. That's sort of embedded in your statements, but your examples don't. And as always, sometimes there's quality in cheap that isn't seen. To see that quality usually involves some sort of time and/or effort. As an illustration, cooking your own meal will be less costly than an equivalent dinner out, and can actually be of higher quality, if you choose quality ingredients and invest in the preparation. My best bookcases are ones I made myself. Cost me half of what solid wood bookcases normally would, and I was able to build them to my design. Hmm. Food for thought, for sure. I like nice pens. I own a not too expensive fountain pen. A regular pen would write as well and equating refills to bottled ink, could last as long, costing far less. But the experience would be different. So buy the $40 cardigan, if you like the qualities it has above those of the $10 one, but don’t wear that one at work. Perhaps this is best wrapped up in understanding the full functions and purposes behind an item. The fountain pen should not be compared to the ballpoint, unless you derive no value or pleasure from the fountain pen experience.

Also, there may be times when quality does last longer. But not longer enough to make up the difference. That’s sort of embedded in your statements, but your examples don’t.

And as always, sometimes there’s quality in cheap that isn’t seen. To see that quality usually involves some sort of time and/or effort. As an illustration, cooking your own meal will be less costly than an equivalent dinner out, and can actually be of higher quality, if you choose quality ingredients and invest in the preparation. My best bookcases are ones I made myself. Cost me half of what solid wood bookcases normally would, and I was able to build them to my design.

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