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.
I do wash mine quite often. Try to every time I wash the bedclothes.
I too got a new generic pillow for cheap. Ite just almost too thick for a support pillow and my main is memoryfoam, which I liked. So I just kept using my old secondary pillow instead of the new plump one. Going to have to “drive it in” I see.
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s kind of up to you how flat your willing to let your pillow get. There’s some sanitary benefits to washing/replacing a pillow every now again.
For me after discovering what a new pillow is like, and not having to stack up 3 pillows, those Walmart $20 pillows only lasted a year.
I now have a $100 pillow that has lasted many years.
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
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.
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Dasus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I do wash mine quite often. Try to every time I wash the bedclothes.
I too got a new generic pillow for cheap. Ite just almost too thick for a support pillow and my main is memoryfoam, which I liked. So I just kept using my old secondary pillow instead of the new plump one. Going to have to “drive it in” I see.