• IninewCrow
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    12 hours ago

    lol … I had this kind of argument with my wife for years.

    She kept buying the smallest bottles of dish washing liquid for years … if it was smaller, to her it was much cheaper. I kept telling her that the price for the small bottle was more expensive per liter of liquid compared to buying it all in bulk.

    I kept telling her that if you just bought one giant bottle for the best price when it went on sale, you’d end up buying more liquid and saving money over time. I’d buy a big huge bottle every year or so and it would last us months, then she’d revert to buying small bottles again.

    Eventually, she realized that it was cheaper in the long run to buying big bottles … mostly because when you bought one giant bottle, you’d forget the problem altogether for about six months or even a year.

    • LumpyPancakes@piefed.social
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      1 hour ago

      I know an OAP who pays two lots of $59 a month for two mobile phones. ‘you get more calls that way’. But it’s a big data plan - even the smallest phone plans have unlimited calls. Heck, one is a flip phone with no data. Can’t convince her she only needs to pay $23 each though.