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If you include the time he spent researching flatware in the bill it would be probably hard to find anything more expensive south of diamond-encrusted things fo

If you include the time he spent researching flatware in the bill it would be probably hard to find anything more expensive south of diamond-encrusted things for oligarchs without taste.

pooriaazimi 14y ago
And he spends an hour or so every day eating stuff with those. Every single day (presumably). If you divide the $500 those flatwares have cost him over that time period (a few thousand days, an hour each day), it turns out it's cost him about 10 cents per hour. And yet, he (again, presumably) has been enjoying it immensely. If you can be happier by spending 10 cents (per hour), why not? I'm not a fan of expensive clothes, but buying an expensive utility that you use everyday (chair, mouse, keyboard, shoe, fork) makes a lot of sense to me.
- debacle 14y ago
  It costs me less than ten cents per hour to power my entire house. You can do anything with simple math and look like an economist, but the reality is that the guy bought a $10 fork.
  - geekstrada 14y ago
    That literally made me chuckle out loud. Thank you.
- lilsunnybee 14y ago
  Because you can be a lot happier spending a lot less than 10 cents an hour, and not worrying about trivial bullshit like flatware.
drivingmenuts 14y ago
Where in the heck do you research flatware in a reliable manner? Cost is easy, but finding out that $75 fork gets scratches like a carpet in a cat factory? Who publishes that? I'm pretty sure I bought my cutlery at Target in one of those handy service-for-4 bachelor packs and maybe my plates at Ikea because I happened to remember I needed plates and I don't hate trees enough to buy paper all the time. But damned if I did any research on it. Is this some niche of blogging as yet undiscovered?
- stephengillie 14y ago
  Dustin definitely got us to discuss his blog post, but probably not for the reason we're expecting. That blog post and this comments thread are both huge advertisements for dcurtis.
dagw 14y ago
But if you're going to include the time he spent researching then you also have to subtract the value he created for himself by blogging about it and generating massive amounts of traffic to his blog.

If you include the time he spent researching flatware in the bill it would be probably hard to find anything more expensive south of diamond-encrusted things for oligarchs without taste.

pooriaazimi 14y ago

And he spends an hour or so every day eating stuff with those. Every single day (presumably). If you divide the $500 those flatwares have cost him over that time period (a few thousand days, an hour each day), it turns out it's cost him about 10 cents per hour. And yet, he (again, presumably) has been enjoying it immensely. If you can be happier by spending 10 cents (per hour), why not? I'm not a fan of expensive clothes, but buying an expensive utility that you use everyday (chair, mouse, keyboard, shoe, fork) makes a lot of sense to me.

debacle 14y ago
It costs me less than ten cents per hour to power my entire house. You can do anything with simple math and look like an economist, but the reality is that the guy bought a $10 fork.
- geekstrada 14y ago
  That literally made me chuckle out loud. Thank you.
lilsunnybee 14y ago
Because you can be a lot happier spending a lot less than 10 cents an hour, and not worrying about trivial bullshit like flatware.

drivingmenuts 14y ago

Where in the heck do you research flatware in a reliable manner? Cost is easy, but finding out that $75 fork gets scratches like a carpet in a cat factory? Who publishes that? I'm pretty sure I bought my cutlery at Target in one of those handy service-for-4 bachelor packs and maybe my plates at Ikea because I happened to remember I needed plates and I don't hate trees enough to buy paper all the time. But damned if I did any research on it. Is this some niche of blogging as yet undiscovered?

stephengillie 14y ago
Dustin definitely got us to discuss his blog post, but probably not for the reason we're expecting. That blog post and this comments thread are both huge advertisements for dcurtis.

dagw 14y ago

But if you're going to include the time he spent researching then you also have to subtract the value he created for himself by blogging about it and generating massive amounts of traffic to his blog.