Based on the excerpt from this Discworld book, what other items do you use regularly that would fit in this theory? (Boots and shoes are fair game!)
Text transcript for people who want it:
[The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
This was Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.]
Bonus: suggest ways you can repair/restore your item/other people's items.
I had no access to laundry machines for a while and did my laundry camp-style. (Bucket and sink plunger, then hang to dry). My clothes were so clean and lasted so much longer. It was shocking to see how much better washing by hand and line drying was.
It takes longer, of course, but that was mainly the drying portion of the process. The wash took very little effort since you are leaving the clothes to soak for an hour or two and a couple minutes of mushing them around with the plunger. I yearned for a laundry version of a salad-spinner to hasten the drying. Getting excess water out was a bugger.