That makes it sound like what makes things expensive is stuff I quite likely wouldn't appreciate.

But, like, what is worth? You know, man?

My Shakespeare professor had a great riff on this re: Shylock's "My Daughter, My Ducats!"

I will pay premiums for quality where I value it. Case in point: fixing Pumpkin, and the rest of the crews' shots. Sure, cheaper at ASPCA, but my vets do pro-bono shit, god knows I've benefitted from that, I can afford it, so I pay the premium.

But clothes? Me and my cat is hard on thems.

You know, one of the cool things about Buffistas is I can mention that I just watched 36 episodes of Lost Girl in six days and no one would raise an eyebrow.

Probably.

I would!

It took me a week.

Woo hoo! I have the record!

It did help that my boss was out of town on Monday and I had nothing to do.

Does that mean you are all caught up to the current season?

H'm. I have been recently coming to the conclusion that it would be incredibly useful to compile a database of expensive-stuff-that's-worth-it and expensive-stuff-that's-just-expensive.

So far my worth-it list contains expensive shoes (never fall apart, endlessly resoleable and reheelable, end up costing less over a lifetime than any number of cheaper pairs - i.e., the Vimes Boot Theory), expensive champagne, expensive housing and rare first editions (but only if you're buying them for pure love, because aside from insanely rare titles the first edition market has completely collapsed and they're no good as investments -- but they'll never not be grand for pure love). (I've never had any luck with housing or champagne, but diligent thrifting does occasionally lead to spectacular shoe and book windfalls.)

Often-worth-it-but-really-safely-only-on-a-case-by-case-basis list (sometimes well worth it, sometimes beautiful cake but not yours, sometimes sources of very expensive disappointment, and you just have to get recs and sample and hope for the best) includes haircuts, bras, pizzas, restaurant meals, jeans, art supplies and chocolate. (My personal disappointment-to-windfall ratio thus far is incredibly depressing.)

Cost-just-doesn't-reliably-correlate-to-quality list, practically everything else. (Trader Joe's, I love you and your budget-friendly deliciousness forever and ever).

eta: I don't even know where health care, especially pet health care and whacked-out USian human health care, fits. Though "What if it gets sick? How could we manage to do right by the poor thing?" is a huge looming worry every time Matilda begs for a critter.

Does that mean you are all caught up to the current season?

Yes. 1st episode of current season is now downloading from iTunes.

It's fun to fall in love with a show to the point where you just have to Watch All the Episodes. The last time that happened was with Doctor Who - the first season with Matt Smith. I spent a few months going back an watching the previous new Who seasons.

I am caught up too. I had seen the first season and some of the second, but I rewatched them all anyway.