OK, so maybe the thread title is a bit click-baity, but I want to tell my little tale.
A few months ago, I purchased a beautiful refurbished rhodium-plated Toggle off the B/S/T. It was an extravagant purchase that I didn't need, obviously, but a Toggle had been on my wish list for a long time. I by-passed a beautiful one about 6 months before that, and I just couldn't let this one get away.
At the same time, I couldn't really justify spending the money for it.
So, I began to "work off" the cost, little by little, day by day. I'll explain. For one thing, I used to purchase lunch every day at work, at an average cost of $6/day. I also wasted a fair bit of gas by not driving carefully. So I began making my own lunch every night and taking a bag lunch to work, and I began "hypermiling" in my car.
By my reasoning, every day that I packed a lunch from home I saved $6 I would've spent on lunch (I know I was eating food I wouldn't otherwise eat, but to be honest most of the time we would open a pack of lunch meat on a Sunday or Saturday and then never touch it again, and I was throwing away old meat at the end of the week). Every time I filled up my car, on average I saved $3. I also sold one razor, for $25.
I kept a running tally of the amount of money I have saved, and tomorrow will get me to and slightly past the cost of the Toggle! So the way I figure it, I essentially got a Toggle for free! (Please don't pester me with how/why this isn't true, because of the cost of the food from home, etc; I know it isn't REALLY true, but we honestly DID throw away a lot of meat, a fair bit of cheese, and even, occasionally, a fair bit of bread that got moldy before we ate it.)
Anyway, I wonder if I am the only person crazy enough to do this sort of thing to justify a completely unnecessary purchase? Have any of you done a similar thing to make yourself feel better about purchasing some sort of shave stuff that you really didn't need?
A few months ago, I purchased a beautiful refurbished rhodium-plated Toggle off the B/S/T. It was an extravagant purchase that I didn't need, obviously, but a Toggle had been on my wish list for a long time. I by-passed a beautiful one about 6 months before that, and I just couldn't let this one get away.
At the same time, I couldn't really justify spending the money for it.
So, I began to "work off" the cost, little by little, day by day. I'll explain. For one thing, I used to purchase lunch every day at work, at an average cost of $6/day. I also wasted a fair bit of gas by not driving carefully. So I began making my own lunch every night and taking a bag lunch to work, and I began "hypermiling" in my car.
By my reasoning, every day that I packed a lunch from home I saved $6 I would've spent on lunch (I know I was eating food I wouldn't otherwise eat, but to be honest most of the time we would open a pack of lunch meat on a Sunday or Saturday and then never touch it again, and I was throwing away old meat at the end of the week). Every time I filled up my car, on average I saved $3. I also sold one razor, for $25.
I kept a running tally of the amount of money I have saved, and tomorrow will get me to and slightly past the cost of the Toggle! So the way I figure it, I essentially got a Toggle for free! (Please don't pester me with how/why this isn't true, because of the cost of the food from home, etc; I know it isn't REALLY true, but we honestly DID throw away a lot of meat, a fair bit of cheese, and even, occasionally, a fair bit of bread that got moldy before we ate it.)
Anyway, I wonder if I am the only person crazy enough to do this sort of thing to justify a completely unnecessary purchase? Have any of you done a similar thing to make yourself feel better about purchasing some sort of shave stuff that you really didn't need?