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I can't wait to be done taking my son to School - next year he attends a local school. Hallelujah! It has done good things for my reading part of the time and certainly is time well spent with Himu but unless I wake up at 4 I can't hope to be free in the morning. Ergo my list is now: Time alone

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Not sure why glasses cost so much in the US. they are not cheap in canada either but I got mine which are simply the best I have ever owned during a 50% sale (with a little help from extended health insurance). CAD225 for the frames. CAD was at parity with the US dollar at the time.

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Well in theory acquiring knowledge and skills doesn't impact the "scales" in practice it's possible to become attached to acquiring knowledge and skills in a "grasping" way too. To acquire them for the sake of having them, to satisfy a craving. I've been doing that with digital media, and I may

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My partner Debbie and I have 30kg of stuff. That's a handy constraint, in that you both can acquire arbitrary amounts of knowledge and skills without any impact on the scales. Riffing off of Aristippus' advice to give one's children the sort of assets which would swim out of a shipwreck

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@lists.hserus.net] On Behalf Of Preetha Chari-Srinivas Sent: 29 November 2016 16:48 To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: Re: [silk] Things that are worth the money Hi Shyam, Pardon my naivete but what does broque mean - have come across that word before but cannot seem to find the right meaning

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@lists.hserus.net] On Behalf Of Preetha Chari-Srinivas Sent: 29 November 2016 16:48 To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: Re: [silk] Things that are worth the money Hi Shyam, Pardon my naivete but what does broque mean - have come across that word before but cannot seem to find the right meaning

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pend a lot of money on are expensive wines, > art, business class airfare... > > -Original Message- > From: silklist [mailto:silklist-bounces+shyam.sunder=peakalpha.com@ > lists.hserus.net] On Behalf Of Udhay Shankar N > Sent: 29 November 2016 08:26 > To: Silk List <Silklist@lists

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Charles and Debbie...you are, to my mind...extremely unusual people. I am slowly coming to realize just how attached I am to material goods. It's time,for example, for me to give my collection of Asterix and Tintin to my grandchildren. But I have dilly-dallied on this for a month! And...regarding

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, business class airfare... -Original Message- From: silklist [mailto:silklist-bounces+shyam.sunder=peakalpha@lists.hserus.net] On Behalf Of Udhay Shankar N Sent: 29 November 2016 08:26 To: Silk List <Silklist@lists.hserus.net> Subject: [silk] Things that are worth the money I saw

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Responding inline for a change. :) > On 29-Nov-2016, at 9:41 AM, Thaths wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 1:56 PM Udhay Shankar N wrote: > >> I saw a post by Ramit Sethi [1] that got me thinking. >> >> What, to you, are the things that are worth the extra

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My partner Debbie and I have 30kg of stuff. Each. That's it. (Ok, right this minute we're actually living in a house! With housemates! So we've bought a few more "things" that we will leave behind when we leave, but the general rule remains.) So every single thing we own must satisfy one or both

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Mine would be a good dinner with friends at a fine dining place good wine included, a music recital, fragrance :-) Best regards, Valsa On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 8:47 AM, Venkatesh H R wrote: > Interesting site! My list would include three things at least: organic >

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On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 9:41 AM, Thaths wrote: > (and a sharpening tool) Which one? -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))

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On 29 November 2016 at 08:26, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > I saw a post by Ramit Sethi [1] that got me thinking. > > What, to you, are the things that are worth the extra that you might pay? > > Holidays at one upgrade level higher than you would otherwise do Business class in long

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​Prada Baroque prescription glass frame, my (note)books​, and my ukulele.

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good --srs > On 29-Nov-2016, at 9:13 AM, Deepa Mohan wrote: > > fragrance seems, to me, the most unquantifiable. > Can someone tell me how fragrances are priced, and often priced so > very high? I could understand when the

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Reminds me of the one about the optometrist who was training his new assistant. "When you deliver the glasses," he said, "You keep adding." "How?" asked the assistant. "Keep watching the customer's face, and as long as you can, keep adding!" said the master. "Here's how it goes: " ' That will

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AlsoI will know if the product is worth the extra amount I have paid for it, only after a certain length of time...and when I go to buy it again, and again. This retrospective knowledge does not help me the first time I am buying something Most of us, I think, have the concept of "buy the

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On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 8:26 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > > Shoes, computers, fragrance. -that-are-worth- > [1] http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/blog/5-thingsthe-money Carefully bottom-posting (yeugh!) this time. Of the three above...fragrance seems, to me, the most

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Interesting site! My list would include three things at least: organic food, hardback or trade paperback books, and any food from bangalore (khara chips, dil khush/pasand, dosai, etc.) On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 8:26 AM Udhay Shankar N wrote: > I saw a post by Ramit Sethi [1] that

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​We recently moved apartments, and I'm glad we spent a lot of money on a quality bed+mattress. A good night's sleep is worth a lot. D​

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Spectacles, computers, phones and shoes top my list. Stuff you use all the time. Though I would clarify that I’d spend the extra money only if the money actually made a material difference to the product. It wouldn’t necessarily be for a bigger brand name unless the product was also better >

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I saw a post by Ramit Sethi [1] that got me thinking. What, to you, are the things that are worth the extra that you might pay? My incomplete list: Shoes, computers, fragrance. Udhay [1] http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/blog/5-things-that-are-worth-the-money -- ((Udhay Shankar N))