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Where you absolutely refuse to go the cheap way.

For me its deodorant. Everything else I've found but my chosen brand fails me.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Electronics.

Generally speaking, electronics are the one thing that almost always follows the "you get what you pay for" rule. To a point, though. Headphones, for example, are better the more expensive they get. Up until they're about $200, that is. Anything higher than that is just wasted money.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Just chiming in with an alternative perspective on headphones.

I personally disagree that anything higher than $200 is a waste. Diminishing returns is subjective relative to one’s enjoyment, but I think I’ve landed on a few headphones around ~$300ish I am very happy with.

I own headphones significantly more expensive than that, but I wouldn’t call them a waste of money since they bring me tremendous joy and they are better at reproducing sound to my preferences than my cheaper pairs.

But for me, if I had to somehow objectively quantify my joy-per-dollar between some of the really good ~$300 pairs and my top of the line pairs, it wouldn’t be so significant that my quality of life would be dramatically altered.