an admirable one, but a very small one

of people who buy name brand?

no, people who do the slightest product research

Well it's like I want let's say X pair of sunglasses, and the entire amazon market is just a flood of confusing chinese knockoffs

So eventually you just say fuck it and buy the designer pair they're cloning

most people are like... price, picture, possibly the right brand, review average, then a coin toss chance of buying

my buying patterns are really different from normies because I don't want to be a wage slave for the rest of my life

oh? go on

well I just avoid buying things that I don't need or won't contribute to my happiness

and if I think i need to buy something I'll give it a couple weeks and see if I still need/want it

then I think about the value of a dollar being $1 if you spend it but infinite if you keep it which makes it really easy to keep putting disposable cash into my investment/retirement accounts

yeah

in my view, every dollar invested is 3 cents a year I can spend for life

No point in impulse buying expensive shit

Or even cheap shit

I do not buy anything except food

I have no TV, I sleep on the floor, I have a guitar I bought for $200 more than 10 years ago and that's about it

also a gym membership

Get a bed

the money that has flown through my hands has almost all ended up invested, the tiny remainder has bought me high protein food and a gym membership and that's basically it

no, beds are a waste of money and floor space

require money to buy, more money for mattress, then a bigger apartment to compensate for the space you lost

It's your life dogg

I don't even do a floor futon anymore, I just stack random blankets

I wish I had come to the understanding of money and consumer culture that I have now, earlier, and avoided some stupid mistakes

don't we both

I recently dropped some decent coin on one of those memory foam matresses, an Ikea one so not super expensive, and it really has improved my sleep qualiry

my wife is actually entirely fine with the floor thing

Mine is fine with a second hand mattress on the floor

but partially that's because we sleep in the basement and the ceiling is low.

I spend a lot more money married than I would if I were still single, because of her

yeah

I figure because of the looming spectre of death you might as well do whatever you want

I got really lucky, mine is totally fine with me being an ultra barbarian

But I ultimately don't mind because she's a great investment.

I will never die

well yeah if death comes for all of us, what do I care whether or not I have a $10,000 BeautyFart mattress?

I'll have them put one in my coffin

^

I'll buy a bariatric fat people coffin the size of a queen bed and put a mattress in it

lol