They have more features, but they break down a ton more often. By all means, if you want ventilated seats then you can get a higher end BMW, but that's a different metric from quality.
No they don’t. BMW is consistently in the top 5 rankings for reliability. They’re just better cars, made to more exacting standards with higher quality materials and better engineering and features.
> BMW is consistently in the top 5 rankings for reliability.
I'm not a fan of buying it once. I prefer buying on feedback. Here's my daily wardrobe: - an oversized plain black T shirt, - a pair of jeans, - a belt, - black socks, - and a pair of boxer briefs. I wear these almost every day. Every single one of these items is cheap enough to buy in bulk whenever I want them. So: If I ever walk into my closet and find myself missing any one of these items due to them all being in…
> Every single one of these items is cheap enough to buy in bulk whenever I want them. I apply something like this to most of my purchases. If I am buying a new phone or some computer hardware, I want to be able to fit another replacement for what I'm about to buy into whatever my budget is. The same goes for clothes, tools for the garden like a tiller or a chainsaw or whatever. And you know what? It's a decent appro…
Ha, moved from the US to Finland 2 years ago myself, we could be twins down to the phone. The deciding factor for me picking up a ruggedized Nokia XR20 was because I said to myself "all I do on this think is Anki, Spotify and social media, so I might as well get an indestructible one if I have to get a new one at all."
An observation I have made of my grandparents, who certainly had a bit of money, is everything they own is high quality and has lasted them years. My grandfather still has his Hickey Freeman suits and sports coats tailored and repaired by a local menswear shop. Their Dualit toaster still works while I have personally gone through many Cuisinart toasters. Their technics AV components still work with their high quality…
Our clothes are cheaper... There's a useful function in limited lifespan - things are much easier to update and upgrade. My tastes have changed a lot over the past 20 years. If my clothes lasted longer I'd have a wardrobe full of things I don't like now and wouldn't wear. If my TV lasted 20 years I'd still have an old, inefficient SD CRT box in the corner, or I'd have passed it on to someone else and maybe they'd hav…
Poor people go to Goodwill or the Salvation Army store for high-quality, inexpensive items. Or they used to when high-quality items were in greater abundance.
It's not that much more difficult to periodically clean out your wardrobe and donate it compared to throwing it in the trash.
I’m in the midst of a life transition and I’ve found that it’s a good opportunity to do some culling. I’m fine with some extravagances (I have probably about 1500 books, of which I’ve cataloged 1,166 on LibraryThing (my transition has paused cataloging activity as my library is mostly living in boxes now and part of the cataloging is shelving everything by Library of Congress call number). On the flip side, I have a…
A ways ago I started sliding towards DRM free digital books. They take up much less hoarding space.
I like the way a bookshelf looks on a wall. I like that friends can browse and discuss and borrow. I like looking at book titles and thinking about when I bought them or how I felt when I read them.
An e-reader is amazing for travel, but doesn't give you any of the above.
Strange article. It is about an unrepairable pair of shoes that need to be recycled but its title is "Buy well, buy once". Not really the case, then ? Then he mentions that he has only 192 "worldly possessions". I'd like to see the actual list, because if it is accurate he mustn't have many forks or boxes of food in his cupboards. So he probably lives in a big city, eats out very often, takes public transportation, a…
> Then he mentions that he has only 192 "worldly possessions". I'd like to see the actual list, Author didn't even seem to read the LA Times link he linked. I've personally got close to 5000 staples in a drawer. And I'm sure the author has some similar huge amount of an object. He's undoubtedly not counting his shoelaces as separate objects, where it seems likely the authors of the research on items in a household ar…
That seems like a pretty bad statistic. No source online, possibly just an oft-repeated estimate from "professional organizer Regina Lark". There are only 100 paperclips in a box of paperclips, so that's not a major source of items. This statistic requires 150 items for every square foot in a 2000-square-foot house. Not even things like my laundry basket or spice rack manage that.
Pretty on the nose. I think even more accurate is that quality/longevity and price are almost completely decoupled. Spending more doesn’t guarantee higher quality it mostly gets you exceptional graphic design and deftly nested packaging that makes you feel good when you open it. But it’s not like all the cheap stuff is better. A Rolex is an incredible engineering marvel and is in fact very high quality and durable. S…
> A Rolex is an incredible engineering marvel and is in fact very high quality and durable. But it's fundamentally worse at being a timepiece than a digital watch synchronized to an NTP time server.
> I even keep a record of all my worldly possessions in a visual catalogue spreadsheet on Airtable. 192 items at my last count. > I don't count hoodies, t-shirts, socks or usb cables but I really don't own many. I count a pair of shoes in a box as 1 item. Huh? Either you're counting things or you're not. Saying you own 192 items except for the 800 (?) you're not counting doesn't make a lot of sense. Why are shoes an…
wanting to be able to cook and serve a meal for 4 people because it's nice to eat with friends Don’t be silly, having three friends is hardly minimalist. Have you ever considered how friends weigh you down? One is more than enough, and frankly even that might be too many.
This is not a joke for me. The same impulse that says I don't want to maintain a lawn or bed frame makes me count the benefit of a friend against the cost of committing time every few weeks, time I could be using for whatever I want. Some of us feel really burdened by commitments. We feel about each outlay the way a normal person only feels when they get right to their limit and have to cut back.
Is the idea that you're renting apartments and counting the pots and pans, toilet brush etc as not being yours because you leave them with the house? So my bath mat is "mine" because I own the house and had to buy it myself, but yours isn't because it's rented? Because if we can cut that out then yeah, now I own far fewer things. It seems like a weird distinction to make.
I make a distinction between things I have sentimental attachment to, important or expensive to replace vs things that are not. I wouldn’t count all my dinner plates and cutlery as “possessions” as such, but I’d count my good knives.
Those are "prized possessions". Possession means property. If you own it, and would have to pack it up and take it with you when you moved, it's a possession.
No they don’t. BMW is consistently in the top 5 rankings for reliability. They’re just better cars, made to more exacting standards with higher quality materials and better engineering and features.
> BMW is consistently in the top 5 rankings for reliability. And Toyota consistently ranks higher. https://www.drive.com.au/news/most-reliable-and-least-reliab...
Yes so a Corolla is a lower quality car with comparable or slightly higher reliability stats.
Unless you think the word quality is just fully synonymous with reliability (in which case a paper airplane beats an F-18) then my point stands.