Are you therefore stock-piling both yarn and books that you know you probably won’t ever use?
I certainly see why it would be easier to buy too much of both in a way it isn’t for beer and fish suppers.
The substitution of goods for each other I find fascinating. I’m very interested in concepts like value engineering where you try to break a product down into its various attributes (taste, bubbles, consistency of flavour, friendliness of barstaff etc) and work out how much people value each attribute individually. The ultimate aim being to compare the price people are prepared to pay for an attribute with the cost of providing it. Alan Sugar used to be very good at this.
I have recently started swapping fish suppers for Kindle books.
When I first started working here I would get lunch in the canteen. This typically included chips.
For health reasons chips must be reduced. (My marginal utility curve for chips just got steeper after the results of my recent cholesterol test. Chips once a month is okay, chips daily is not okay.)
When I did a review of how much that was costing me each month compared to the slightly lower prices of books if bought on a Kindle I realised if I cut down on the number of full lunches I bought from the canteen I could afford an extra Kindle book every week and still save money.
There is something about books being useful in the future. I have a habit of buying interesting books when I see them because I might never see them again. Again, Kindle has changed this. (I now need a better way to record books that I would like to buy at some point in the future.)
Not all beers are the same. For me at least. I tend to quite enjoy variety in beer. I generally go to one of two pubs. One is a nice, old-fashioned pub with a decent selection of beers and often one I’ve not seen for a while. The other is a specialist beer variety pub which is almost guaranteed to have one or two beers I’ve never heard of before.
If I had more money and fewer Captains (and the two are linked in some way) I would probably visit the first pub once a month more than I do. The specialist pub I might visit much more often. I can envisage myself as a pension popping in their every night for one or two beers. Each night a different beer.
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I certainly see why it would be easier to buy too much of both in a way it isn’t for beer and fish suppers.
The substitution of goods for each other I find fascinating. I’m very interested in concepts like value engineering where you try to break a product down into its various attributes (taste, bubbles, consistency of flavour, friendliness of barstaff etc) and work out how much people value each attribute individually. The ultimate aim being to compare the price people are prepared to pay for an attribute with the cost of providing it. Alan Sugar used to be very good at this.
I have recently started swapping fish suppers for Kindle books.
When I first started working here I would get lunch in the canteen. This typically included chips.
For health reasons chips must be reduced. (My marginal utility curve for chips just got steeper after the results of my recent cholesterol test. Chips once a month is okay, chips daily is not okay.)
When I did a review of how much that was costing me each month compared to the slightly lower prices of books if bought on a Kindle I realised if I cut down on the number of full lunches I bought from the canteen I could afford an extra Kindle book every week and still save money.
There is something about books being useful in the future. I have a habit of buying interesting books when I see them because I might never see them again. Again, Kindle has changed this. (I now need a better way to record books that I would like to buy at some point in the future.)
Not all beers are the same. For me at least. I tend to quite enjoy variety in beer. I generally go to one of two pubs. One is a nice, old-fashioned pub with a decent selection of beers and often one I’ve not seen for a while. The other is a specialist beer variety pub which is almost guaranteed to have one or two beers I’ve never heard of before.
If I had more money and fewer Captains (and the two are linked in some way) I would probably visit the first pub once a month more than I do. The specialist pub I might visit much more often. I can envisage myself as a pension popping in their every night for one or two beers. Each night a different beer.