I don’t ever feel guilty. I prefer a watch to looking at my phone and sometimes I forget my phone.
I don’t ever feel guilty. I prefer a watch to looking at my phone and sometimes I forget my phone.
exactly conditioning from parents and grandparents, but in the end I think they had good values in some things, in the end I don't mind inheriting many of their values. I just temper their values with my own questioning and rebellious streak so that the very harsh edges are a little less so.Rob, for what it's worth, I feel guilty when I spend money but I think for me it is early conditioning by a very frugal mother.
Trees don't grow on money
This is a handmade FP Journe watch, with a very special and significant movement. It cost me ~$90,000. It represents months of labor for the man who made it. I do not feel guilty owning it at all.
It is but one small part of my effort to support a dying art:
Al Gore spends more in jet fuel each year than my whole collection, probably.
My wife bought me a nice watch years ago. It’s in a box somewhere, I haven’t worn a watch in years. between my phone, cars, and clocks on walls I generally can tell what time it is. And knowing what time it is generally is not a big deal to me anyway.
So yes, spending money on a watch is just crazy. You could help someone from the 85006 buy a bag to prepare to flee. What are you thinking?
I love my watch which my husband bought me when we first got married. That said, for 26 years my job required me to log the time of every task I performed and every call I took, even a bathroom breaks. Believe me when I say that I have an excellent sense of time and can pretty much guess what time it is (within a couple of minutes) without a watch.
I got sick of cheap watches that didn’t last long. Spent $125 on a dive watch. Pretty aqua and silver, too! I can wear it in the pool or around water without worrying about it. Thing is tough. I’ve accidentally worn it diving!
I subscribe to the saying - buy once, cry once.
What's wrong, exactly, with a Rolex? They make plenty of stainless steel, utilitarian tool watches.
My daily-wearing watch is a Rolex Milgauss, a special model made to resist very high levels of magnetism, as might be found in a high energy physics lab and a few other specialized places. I've worn it for decades now, it's been keeping time just fine, and it has survived in places that would have absolutely destroyed a "normal" watch. It also looks sort of boring and bland. I think they still make the model, and it sells for probably $7k or so.
Seems to me that anyone following the YMOYL plan is by definition hoarding wealth. Does their hoard cause you grief somehow?
Returning your $69 watch for moral and ethical reasons - some random questions:
- how much will it cost to travel back to the store to return it? Or how much shipping will be involved?
- how much value/carbon cost to the environment/... will be lost/incurred because of the merchant needing to repackage, or simply throw out, the returned item?
- what about the wages of the workers who built that watch, transported it, sold it?
How much wasted time and capital and income will be involved in your virtue-signaling?
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