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What is something that you used to be cheap on, until you tried the high-quality version, and now you can't go back?
 
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CH2013 said:
What is something that you used to be a cheap ass on, until you tried the high-quality version, and now you can't go back?
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Headphones and earphones. Once you have a custom pair of earphones made to the shape of your ear canal there is really no going back. Same goes for orthodynamic headphone drivers when paired with a proper flat response curve DAC/Amp.
 
Food, shoes, eau de toilette.

Most things I aim for a happy mid point though.
 
HavocXphere said:
Food, shoes, eau de toilette.

Most things I aim for a happy mid point though.
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Definitely scent and shoes...I'd throw bedding in there (pillow / sheets in particular). Mouse and keyboard also...basically the stuff I touch or use most, I try to spend a bit extra on.

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The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socio-economic unfairness.
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CH2013 said:
What is something that you used to be cheap on, until you tried the high-quality version, and now you can't go back?
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Whisky, business/first class travel, hotels.
 
Protein powder. High quality powders like ON gold standard mix better, taste better and you know the label is almost 100% correct.
 
High quality tires and brake pads - best investment so far.
 
Coffee, shoes, bed linen/pillows, tires, and food.
 
Neoprod said:
Definitely scent and shoes...I'd throw bedding in there (pillow / sheets in particular). Mouse and keyboard also...basically the stuff I touch or use most, I try to spend a bit extra on.

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haha....read/heard that quite recently.
 
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