🧩 Philosophy 5d ago · Yair Halberstadt

Learning to spend money

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My wife and I are both naturally stingy people. When drafting our wedding list we spurned the posh department stores and I carefully picked out the lowest price best quality items on Amazon instead. I bought 100 dollar beds and 100 dollar mattresses, and we slept on them for a year and a half because "we're anyway emigrating soon". When we did emigrate, I ended up shipping them and we slept on them for another year and a half, much to my pregnant wife's annoyance.
We might have overdone it given

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