Reply #61: Excellent Question

[Mike03]

As a matter of fact, my parents taught me, when I was in college, that if I found something cheap and quality, to buy two and put one away for the future. That is really what I did, in terms of clothes (in particular), so I have boxes and boxes of shirts from the late 80s and 90s that cost half as much as they would cost today. Most of them have never been opened or unwrapped.

That was also my rationale for stocking up on canned foods in case of some domestic emergency.

But I have had to curtail my spending on things that I "like" but don't "need". I'm working hard on just being content, and being able to sit still with restlessness, and not constantly be trying to escape from being with myself--that is really what motivated me to always have to have some new book or something to study or distract myself from being still and content.