Thank you Dave.
I have lived my life by that moto. As I said when I wrote it, a "bargain" is not the same as a low price. A "bargin" is a description of something which one specifically needed and was able to source at a genuinely reasonable price. In my time I have met many people who purchased items which were only remotely like the item they needed and did so because the chose item was a "bargain" due to the lower than expected selling price. But when it turned out to not do the job it was needed for and had to be replaced, it highlighted the fact that cheap can be dear, that quality is remembered long after price is forgotton, and that, as I say, a bargain is only a bargain if it is needed.
Same applies to buying things which are not needed at all. A woman recently told me how much she had "saved" on what she bought in the January sales. She then went on to say she had no need for most of it. So I told her how much I'd saved by being a boring old man who had spent the day at home.
I am not trying to suggest that people should not spend their money as they choose, I am simply explaining the bare-bones of a bargain.
