Originally Posted by
Newspaperguy
Buying quality goods that last rather than lower priced goods that must be replaced often will save me in the long term. A $100 purchase that lasts five years is a much better bargain than a $40 purchase that lasts 15 months.
+1
I took a class last semester at my college called Spiritual Growth and Development. In it we went through a book called Celebration of the Disciplines by Richard Foster, who is a quaker. In it there was a section over simplicity. During one of our discussions my professor mentioned a story about how he was at a friends house after they had gotten off of work. My professor noticed how nice his black dress shoes were. For some reason he was back in his friends bedroom while he was changing shoes and his friend took them off and polished them put the cedar wood blocks into them and put them neatly back into a box. My prof commented on how nice they were. His friend asked him to guess how old they were and they were close to 10 yrs old and they looked brand new. Simplicity is not necessarily cutting corners and getting to extreme bare necessities, that is minimalism. You buy to use and use thoroughly.