Comments on: benefit #18 – own higher quality things

By: Joshua Moore

Joshua Moore — Tue, 26 May 2009 10:20:22 +0000

This is only in relation to clothes, but the book titled ‘The Magic of Thinking Big’ by David Schwartz sees the author stating the following:

“Pay twice as much and buy half as many.” This results in better quality and less clutter, plus items tends to stay in fashion for longer and last a longer time.

By: andy

andy — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:37:45 +0000

you get what you pay for. definitely a satisfactory biproduct of minimalism. leigh and I, too, have been thinking about minimalism as well.

By: Jade Cow

Jade Cow — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:49:22 +0000

Yes. Furthermore, lets assume for a moment that you set a $100 budget for shirts per year. You decide to replace two of them- now you get two $50 shirts!