No matter what it is, I always buy the best. Even if that means buying less — I pursue quality, not quantity.
A note here: quality doesn’t mean luxury brands. I rarely pay for brand premiums. I’d much rather spend on genuine quality.
So I would never, out of a desire to save money, buy a pile of things that look cheap but are actually poor quality.
Because with anything — if you simply follow the principle of “good and refined,” you’ll find that not only do you get full use out of everything you own, avoiding waste, but the experience of using these things is genuinely pleasant and comfortable. Life feels remarkably good.
The opposite habit, though, is quite damaging.
That’s the habit of always chasing the cheapest option — obsessively hunting for bargains, buying everything, stockpiling everything — until things expire before you use them, or go out of style before you ever get to them.
Three or four years later, when you finally sort through it all, you realize you’ve wasted untold amounts of money on things you didn’t need. Use them? They feel wrong. Throw them away? You can’t bring yourself to.
In recent years, many people’s circumstances haven’t been great, so they constantly hoard and pile things up. The result: a home that was already cramped becomes suffocating, and their mood suffers too — from constantly surrounding themselves with low-price, low-quality things.
Honestly, most people don’t realize this: your environment shapes you, and the objects around you equally affect your Chi fortune (气运).
So even if tomorrow is a major shopping holiday, before you buy a pile of things, take a moment to seriously ask yourself: Are these things truly necessary for me? Can they genuinely improve my life? Is there a better, more durable option that solves the problem once and for all?
If you think this way before every purchase, not only will you save a tremendous amount of unnecessary spending — your quality of life and overall state of being will make a qualitative leap forward.