im dead serious about this there are few things more fun than this and you learn so much cultivate a taste for cheap hobbieshttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1259372865742200833?s=19 …
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apparently there was an influential Thiel fellow lecture about this dont remember where I read this but the guy just went on a tear on this "never drink expensive whiskey! its genuinely better and you dont want to have to pay for that taste! good coffee is fine, its cheap!"
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conventional wisdom is that spending a lot on a mattress is fine and I used to believe this but I've learned too much see link (old Slate) its all Scam i currently sleep on a custom futon mattress on tatami linen sheets are actually worth it though https://www.google.com/amp/s/slate.com/human-interest/2000/11/going-to-the-mattresses.amp …
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you can get a lovely hardwood platform bed on Amazon for a few hundred bucks, they are extremely sturdy and disassemble for moving https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B000KV3B14/
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here is my favorite pair of shoes (need to be polished) they would have cost several hundred of dollars new i picked them up for $15 at Value Village in 2012 and once paid $50 to have them resoled im still on my first tin of polish Amortize Thatpic.twitter.com/hMP5PZbsfB
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favorite sport coat, like new condition $25 at thrift store in 2014(?), $70 for tailoring full canvas fits like a dream would have been at least many hundreds buying directly from brookspic.twitter.com/3ASbCG3iWN
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What's the most expensive multi-volume history you've ever purchased?
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paid maybe $220 for a 1918 print of Parallel Lives I found in a used bookstore
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Obv I was hoping for Durant here, but my hopes are thwarted.
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