# What do you spare no expense with? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 2, 2008, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-spare-no-expense-with/432017 "2008-01-02T19:14:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-spare-no-expense-with/432017/81 "2008-01-10T19:57:19Z")
**Shaving blades** - I don’t think the Gillette Mach 3 blades are plated with gold, but at the cost of $20 for 16 of them they sure as hell should be. What’s that? Shave my head with the cheap Bick disposable ones? Are you fucking crazy!?! ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-spare-no-expense-with/432017/82 "2008-01-10T23:14:04Z")
[QUOTE=Hockey Monkey] Toilet Paper - only Cottonelle for my tushie. [/QUOTE] Same here! I was disconcerted to see that they’ve minimized the ridges. Just when you find the right product, they change it on you. ---
**Author:** ![lizardling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@lizardling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lizardling)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-spare-no-expense-with/432017/83 "2008-01-11T05:34:21Z")
**Glasses**. Last time I had to get new ones, I went to two or three different stores to try on glasses. Finally out of exasperation, a friend of mine pointed to the Really Swank glasses place in Pike Market since we were there eating lunch anyway and suggested we go in there. I found this out when they suggested a pair of frames that had everyone agreeing that I looked fab in them, took my scrip on the spot, and then presented me with an bill for the lot that made me go \*absolutely \* pale. Somehow, I found the courage to hand them my credit card. I’ve had these glasses for several years now and lurve them to death, apparently paying a lot really does make a difference in some cases. Knock on wood, my eyes better stay where they are right now for a good long time – I certainly paid enough! ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-spare-no-expense-with/432017/84 "2008-01-11T06:13:18Z")
It’s not politically correct, but in my case, I’ll say Tobacco. I enjoy fine cigars and pipe tobaccos. In the case of my cigars, I tend to only smoke premium hand-rolled cigars. Mostly, they are Havanas (which are legal in Canada, where I live), and I’ve sampled most high-end, hand-rolled, and well-reviewed Cuban cigars. But I’ve also been willing to try hand-rolled cigars from other cigar nations: Dominican Republic, Honduras, Nicaragua, Phillippines (which produces a surprisingly pleasant mild tobacco, by the way). Heck, I was once gifted a box of ten aged _puro vintage_ Dominicans by the plantation owner (_puro_ = the filler, binder, and wrapper tobaccos are from the same country; in this case, they were from the same estate; and _vintage_ = all tobaccos from the same year), and they were superb! My pipe tobaccos tend to be the nice, tinned tobaccos that are only available from proper tobacconists; but I’ve been known to be willing to try custom blends that the tobacconist is willing to prepare for me. Still, I have a number of pre-blended tinned favourites that will never be carried by supermarkets or corner stores. My pipes are only hand-made briars, from Denmark, Italy, Germany, and Canada; and smoke beautifully; I hate to sound like a snob, but I wouldn’t trust a pipe I didn’t buy from a manufacturer or buy at a tobacconist’s. With pipes, quality tells, and you certainly do get what you pay for. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-spare-no-expense-with/432017.md?page=4)