Lesson I learned
A piece of wisdom was once passed on by a mentor. “You will repeat your mistake until you learn you lesson.” It was so simple to understand yet I never really applied this gem until lately.
I am thrifty! I’d rather buy the cheapest shirt than a branded one. I like my money’s purchasing power to be stable. I love to save! And I love discounts and sales.
Last year, I bought a big mattress for my metal bed for just a few bucks. It was really cheap. I was thinking, I will just be using it for six to eight hours at night so I was sure I made the right decision. After one night of usage, it flattened like paper!
But I didn’t learn anything from that experience. Just this month, I went again to my shopping haven to buy a pair of sneakers. I went for a white one with two red lines on the sides. It was raining when I went home the day I used the shoes for the first time. Guess what? When the red linings got wet, it contaminated the white part making the shoes looked like with allergies beacuse of the red spots! The other day, I went to an electronics shopping area to buy a battery charger. And you guessed it right! The item I bought didn’t work how it was described on the label.
Now I learned my lesson: It’s better to buy more expensive quality products, especially when you plan to be using these products for a long period of time. When you go for quantity instead of quality, because you are thinking you are saving, well, you’re wrong. You may be spending more because the turn over of these products is high. The higher the turn over, the more you buy for replacements making you sacrifice your own hard earned money. As they say experience is the best teacher.
