A Stupid Aestu Journal, RON PAUL, Begging FUBU Women Help

Aestu · **Posted:** Thu Jan 10, 2013 4:01 pm

Spending money to be uncomfortable is not comparable to confident bearing.

Kayllaira · **Posted:** Thu Jan 10, 2013 5:56 pm

I think the argument that hundred-dollar shoes look better/garner more respect than $30 shoes is a bit misguided.

I mean maybe you guys can tell me what the difference is. Why is the bottom shoe so much more money than the top shoe? Based purely on looks and not materials, comfort, etc. because someone looking at my feet would not be able to tell me such subjective information.

Euphonic · **Posted:** Thu Jan 10, 2013 6:52 pm

In any sort of face-to-face customer service business, you look more approachable and pleasing clean shaven.

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Usdk · **Posted:** Thu Jan 10, 2013 7:14 pm

The only concessions in shoes where I would pay more money is if they're more comfortable/better for my feet to wear.

Meowth · **Posted:** Thu Jan 10, 2013 9:10 pm

Kayllaira wrote:

I think the argument that hundred-dollar shoes look better/garner more respect than $30 shoes is a bit misguided.

I mean maybe you guys can tell me what the difference is. Why is the bottom shoe so much more money than the top shoe? Based purely on looks and not materials, comfort, etc. because someone looking at my feet would not be able to tell me such subjective information.

Leather vs cloth

Get some
And no, I didn't read the last bit until now.

With that said, I would gladly spend $200 on shoes. I'm on my feet all day. Same thing with office chairs. That $800 chair is probably going to be better for you than some cheap $50 walmart thing.

Aestu · **Posted:** Thu Jan 10, 2013 10:25 pm

Materials (and labor for that matter) are incredibly cheap. You can get purses shoes etc of leather or cloth of any price range.

Only a fool thinks price and value are the same and it is a hallmark of poor money management skills. Very often the cheaper thing is simpler, sturdier and more reliable, the price tag is often itself a gimmick to make a shoddy, overmarketed product look better than it is. From personal experience, my best desk chairs cost under $50 used and i cant stand Aeron chairs because theyre a peculiar shape and have no support.

Meowth · **Posted:** Thu Jan 10, 2013 10:30 pm

Aestu wrote:

Materials (and labor for that matter) are incredibly cheap. You can get purses shoes etc of leather or cloth of any price range.

Only a fool thinks price and value are the same and it is a hallmark of poor money management skills. Very often the cheaper thing is simpler, sturdier and more reliable, the price tag is often itself a gimmick to make a shoddy, overmarketed product look better than it is. From personal experience, my best desk chairs cost under $50 used and i cant stand Aeron chairs because theyre a peculiar shape and have no support.

Tell that do my $200 Ikea chair and my ass. And my $150 work boots. There is no way I could ever go back to what I was using previously.

Aestu · **Posted:** Fri Jan 11, 2013 1:47 am

My chair cost $50. Yours cost $200. My used Rockports cost $10. Yours cost $150.

My feet and ass arent complaining. I completely dont understand how spending over 500% more on basics to achieve the same results is a good thing. Having expensive tastes is not a virtue. Being frugal is.

Mns · **Posted:** Fri Jan 11, 2013 2:49 am

Maybe you can talk about all the money you saved to the doctors who will own your bank account for the last 20 years of your life.

Aestu · **Posted:** Fri Jan 11, 2013 2:51 am

Mns wrote:

Maybe you can talk about all the money you saved to the doctors who will own your bank account for the last 20 years of your life.

I think thats more of a diet/build/lifestyle issue.

Weena · **Posted:** Fri Jan 11, 2013 10:25 am

Aestu wrote:

My chair cost $50. Yours cost $200. My used Rockports cost $10. Yours cost $150.

My feet and ass arent complaining. I completely dont understand how spending over 500% more on basics to achieve the same results is a good thing. Having expensive tastes is not a virtue. Being frugal is.

I doubt you're getting equivalent results. The requirements for satisfaction vary dramatically for a variety of reasons. Your feet and ass aren't everybody else's. There's probably somebody thinking why would they spend 50 bucks on a chair when they could get by just fine with a 5 dollar stool, or a chair from their kitchen.

I can say with near certainty that you aren't mucking around 45+ hours a week in the sloppy wet and cold outdoors. Ergo, it takes boots/shoes much less to satisfy you than Meowth.

But I wholly agree otherwise, and get thoroughly annoyed when people raise their 'satisfaction bars' incredibly high for no other reason than they want to. Indulgence in moderation is fine, constant prodigality isn't, imho.

rikkilake · **Posted:** Fri Jan 11, 2013 11:17 am

Aestu wrote:

Materials (and labor for that matter) are incredibly cheap. You can get purses shoes etc of leather or cloth of any price range.

Only a fool thinks price and value are the same and it is a hallmark of poor money management skills. Very often the cheaper thing is simpler, sturdier and more reliable, the price tag is often itself a gimmick to make a shoddy, overmarketed product look better than it is. From personal experience, my best desk chairs cost under $50 used and i cant stand Aeron chairs because theyre a peculiar shape and have no support.

Materials are cheap if you get low-quality materials.[1][2]
Additionally, from personal experience I can say that this shirt is much lower quality than this shirt

Kayllaira · **Posted:** Fri Jan 11, 2013 9:19 pm

rikkilake wrote:

Aestu wrote:

Materials (and labor for that matter) are incredibly cheap. You can get purses shoes etc of leather or cloth of any price range.

Only a fool thinks price and value are the same and it is a hallmark of poor money management skills. Very often the cheaper thing is simpler, sturdier and more reliable, the price tag is often itself a gimmick to make a shoddy, overmarketed product look better than it is. From personal experience, my best desk chairs cost under $50 used and i cant stand Aeron chairs because theyre a peculiar shape and have no support.

Materials are cheap if you get low-quality materials.[1][2]
Additionally, from personal experience I can say that this shirt is much lower quality than this shirt

I can understand from a personal and comfort perspective the reasoning for buying more expensive clothing. I'm just wondering how anyone just looking at a plain, white button down would know that it is made from nicer material than any other white button down (assuming the construction and fit is the same). I feel that is the reason why designers, especially for women, put their "calling card" on their items - because otherwise nobody would know. Example, "C's" on Coach items, LV on Louis Vuitton, MK on Michael Kors, the moose? on A&F, etc.

I dunno. Maybe I would understand more if I wasn't always poor. I just see it as self aggrandizing, egotistical and unnecessary. People spend hundreds and thousands on clothes when some can barely afford any at all.

rikkilake · **Posted:** Sat Jan 12, 2013 2:46 pm

Kayllaira wrote:

rikkilake wrote:

Aestu wrote:

Materials (and labor for that matter) are incredibly cheap. You can get purses shoes etc of leather or cloth of any price range.

Only a fool thinks price and value are the same and it is a hallmark of poor money management skills. Very often the cheaper thing is simpler, sturdier and more reliable, the price tag is often itself a gimmick to make a shoddy, overmarketed product look better than it is. From personal experience, my best desk chairs cost under $50 used and i cant stand Aeron chairs because theyre a peculiar shape and have no support.

Materials are cheap if you get low-quality materials.[1][2]
Additionally, from personal experience I can say that this shirt is much lower quality than this shirt

I can understand from a personal and comfort perspective the reasoning for buying more expensive clothing. I'm just wondering how anyone just looking at a plain, white button down would know that it is made from nicer material than any other white button down (assuming the construction and fit is the same). I feel that is the reason why designers, especially for women, put their "calling card" on their items - because otherwise nobody would know. Example, "C's" on Coach items, LV on Louis Vuitton, MK on Michael Kors, the moose? on A&F, etc.

I dunno. Maybe I would understand more if I wasn't always poor. I just see it as self aggrandizing, egotistical and unnecessary. People spend hundreds and thousands on clothes when some can barely afford any at all.

If you don't see a difference at first, you will slow begin to see one with each wear of the two seemingly-identical items. The edges will start to fray, the stiching will begin to come undone, you'll get those long threads sticking off of random points, you'll liely get more tears, the color will start to fade more quickly, if there's leather, it'll start to wrinkle and crease.
Will these things every happen with more expensive pieces? Maybe, but not for a long, long time.

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