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Growing up in a working class family I never had access to luxury goods. In the last few years, thanks to a middle class job and a switch on my mindset, I had t
by angarg12 7y ago
Growing up in a working class family I never had access to luxury goods. In the last few years, thanks to a middle class job and a switch on my mindset, I had the privilege to be able to indulge in better quality goods than ever before.
After looking into high fashion brands and searching the internet I'm convinced of the following corollary: for almost any high street brand product, there is an equivalent or better quality one produced for a fraction of the price.
- KozmoNau7 7y agoAbsolutely. For instance kitchenware, you could go to the fancy high street shop and get the lifestyle brands. Or you could go to a kitchen supply store and get the same quality items that the professionals use, which will be more expensive than the cheap department store items, but will last a lifetime or more in an ordinary person's kitchen. Or whisky. I could spend big bucks on the big hyped brands, and get perfectly acceptable whisky, but probably sold at 40% ABV, chill filtered with caramel color added. Or I could buy from independent bottlers and get cask strength, non-chill filtered whisky with no color added, usually at a lower price, for something so much more interesting. No, I won't have fancy bottles of MacAllan or whatever sitting on my shelf for all to see, but I care a lot more about the whisky than the branded bottle it's in.