Psychosis on the Road to Financial Freedom

One thing I really love to do is shop.  (Typical woman!)  I’ve just come to realize that my idea of a “good deal” can be very strange.  My idea of the “best deal” is the best item for the cheapest price.  Then I go a step further and try to find the “best price for the money”.  Then I try to find the cheapest price.  So I sometimes spend endless hours looking for the “best item”, then trying to find it at the cheapest price..and then I get upset when I can’t get the CHEAPEST price.  It’s an endless battle.
It hasn’t worked too well for me.  Ultimately, it seems I end up settling for the “cheapest price” rather than the best item…and that is exactly what I end up with.  Some cheap piece of crap.  I think when it comes down to it, I feel like that if I don’t pay the rock bottom price for an item, then I feel cheated.  Then I get the item home and find out it is a piece of crap (cheap) which is what I paid for.  Only I was  hoping it was just a great deal.  It never is.

I have no idea where the happy medium is.  I’ve always had the idea that quality is what counts, but then take me shopping for some necessity, and all that seems to fall by the wayside in an effort to get a bargain.

My husband is just the opposite.  We were just talking about his truck and that he really likes it and wants to keep it (it’s a 1999 model and paid for).  Then the engine light came on, and he said “guess I’ll have to get a new engine.”  For him, everything is disposable so that he can get the next better thing.  The idea of fixing it rather than replacing it is always secondary.

But with that said, he always ends up with “quality” and I always end up with “crap”.  Maybe we would be better off going shopping together - I would keep his head on straight by trying to keep the  price away from the high end, and he could keep me from buying cheap items that don’t last.

I guess opposites do attract…and we are made to be together.  We compliment each other.