Of items you purchase, how often do you feel you get your money’s worth? Put another way, do you feel like the money expended is worth the price of a product or service you buy?
I doubt there are any statistics on this. Just perspective and emotion. We spend a certain amount of money on an electric razor and five days later when it seems like the recharger isn’t working and the shaves aren’t as close as you expected, you question why you bought it. “Doesn’t seem like it was worth the sticker price.”
This happens a lot, I imagine, to most people. We have expectations. We see an ad. We come to believe that a new car will find roads with no traffic and ascend a mountain top where you breath fresh air and soak in the incredible vistas. As thinking human beings, we recognize that most ads have a high degree of exaggeration involved.
Because we can so easily be disappointed, it’s enjoyable when something I buy exceeds my expectations, or just plain performs consistently the way it is supposed to. For example, several years back we bought an electric heavy duty brush cutter. It’s got a metal blade. The batteries are easily rechargeable. It mows down thick brush.
We have buckthorn heavily infesting our property and as an invasive species, we’ve invested a lot of yard work time and energy into bringing this insidious beast to its knees. The electric brush cutter is central to our progress. It takes down titanic swaths as you swing the device from side to side, letting the blades to their thing.
It's a joy watching all sizes topple, opening up the forest for other trees and bushes to breathe, set their roots deeper into the earth to get the nutrients they need. The tool makes me feel righteous, and though I don’t remember what we paid for the electric heavy duty brush cutter, it is worth every penny.
A second item, which also falls into the yard implement category is a rechargeable handheld power saw. You touch the button, the blade twirls, and you can cut down an amazing amount of branches without having to use gasoline or heft a heavy saw with two hands.
This tool also gets the job done exactly as designed. It’s convenient. It’s easy to use. It’s handy. It’s simple to operate, recharge, clean and replace the blade when it dulls. What more can you ask for? It does its duties against the buckthorn as well as on larger bushes, and when storms blow smaller trees down, we make quick work of them.
Far too often we see and hear massive claims about something that doesn’t remotely live up to the hype. It doesn’t perform they way it’s advertised. The cost seems disproportionate to the results.
We all probably have our personal favorites – a bicycle that’s lasted forever; a car that starts in all kinds of weather and rarely needs repairs; a pack of chewing gum that delivers flavor for more than an hour. Simple satisfactions.
When you find something reliable, nicely priced, effective, convenient and easy to use, you know you got your money’s worth. It’s a good feeling.
I doubt there are any statistics on this. Just perspective and emotion. We spend a certain amount of money on an electric razor and five days later when it seems like the recharger isn’t working and the shaves aren’t as close as you expected, you question why you bought it. “Doesn’t seem like it was worth the sticker price.”
This happens a lot, I imagine, to most people. We have expectations. We see an ad. We come to believe that a new car will find roads with no traffic and ascend a mountain top where you breath fresh air and soak in the incredible vistas. As thinking human beings, we recognize that most ads have a high degree of exaggeration involved.
Because we can so easily be disappointed, it’s enjoyable when something I buy exceeds my expectations, or just plain performs consistently the way it is supposed to. For example, several years back we bought an electric heavy duty brush cutter. It’s got a metal blade. The batteries are easily rechargeable. It mows down thick brush.
We have buckthorn heavily infesting our property and as an invasive species, we’ve invested a lot of yard work time and energy into bringing this insidious beast to its knees. The electric brush cutter is central to our progress. It takes down titanic swaths as you swing the device from side to side, letting the blades to their thing.
It's a joy watching all sizes topple, opening up the forest for other trees and bushes to breathe, set their roots deeper into the earth to get the nutrients they need. The tool makes me feel righteous, and though I don’t remember what we paid for the electric heavy duty brush cutter, it is worth every penny.
A second item, which also falls into the yard implement category is a rechargeable handheld power saw. You touch the button, the blade twirls, and you can cut down an amazing amount of branches without having to use gasoline or heft a heavy saw with two hands.
This tool also gets the job done exactly as designed. It’s convenient. It’s easy to use. It’s handy. It’s simple to operate, recharge, clean and replace the blade when it dulls. What more can you ask for? It does its duties against the buckthorn as well as on larger bushes, and when storms blow smaller trees down, we make quick work of them.
Far too often we see and hear massive claims about something that doesn’t remotely live up to the hype. It doesn’t perform they way it’s advertised. The cost seems disproportionate to the results.
We all probably have our personal favorites – a bicycle that’s lasted forever; a car that starts in all kinds of weather and rarely needs repairs; a pack of chewing gum that delivers flavor for more than an hour. Simple satisfactions.
When you find something reliable, nicely priced, effective, convenient and easy to use, you know you got your money’s worth. It’s a good feeling.