What's worth full price?

[dickens]

I've been playing with my budget lately and I've always been a sucker for a clearance sale, so I got thinking about what I'm willing to pay a little more for.

There are obviously practical things like health insurance/care, but I'm interested in the things that you could go without, but choose not to.

For example, high on my list are spices and condiments. The last two years of college I made fried rice nearly every night. (Crazy people assumed I could live on 3 meals a day!) I used insanely cheap rice and vegetables liberated from the caf, but the best soy sauce I could find (from the local co-op, organic, wheat free, low sodium, ~$4/bottle in 1995).

I kinda miss sitting on the floor of the kitchen in Wahlstrom (there was only one plug-in for my electric wok, about a foot off the floor) making fried rice.

What are you willing to pay for?

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[talkswithwind]

Chocolate. I've been completely spoiled, and can't stand the cheap stuff. Easter is a hard holiday, seeing the brown flavored wax that gets passed off as chocolate. Arg. We have a good chocolateer in town that I patronize. They sell chocolate wafers, which I use as a handy bite-sized snack.

I'm also a sucker for cheeses. Long gone are the days when a block of Kraft Extra Sharp Cheddar will hold me over. I've found what real sharp cheddar tastes like and there is no going back. I'll still bargain hunt for the good stuff (CostCo sells 2lb blocks of a very good sharp cheddar), but the cheap stuff just doesn't do it for me.