It's much bigger than the kind of one-time purchase you're talking about, but buying Toad Hall paid back financially for all of the 20 years I owned it, and it put $160K in my pocket when I sold it.
The house was both cheaper and more secure than paying rent, more so with every year that passed.
On the smaller side, the pictures I've taken with my digital camera in the last two years would have cost over $3500 in film and developing if I'd taken them with the camera I had. That's 10 times the cost of the digital camera. But I wouldn't have taken the pictures, 'cause I simply don't have that kind of money to spend on photography. And the benefits from the joy experienced from having taken those pictures is worth even more to me.
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Date: 2005-11-15 04:45 pm (UTC)The house was both cheaper and more secure than paying rent, more so with every year that passed.
On the smaller side, the pictures I've taken with my digital camera in the last two years would have cost over $3500 in film and developing if I'd taken them with the camera I had. That's 10 times the cost of the digital camera. But I wouldn't have taken the pictures, 'cause I simply don't have that kind of money to spend on photography. And the benefits from the joy experienced from having taken those pictures is worth even more to me.