Americans have been conditioned to think simply everything is or should be free or dirt cheap.
i blame McDonald’s. the “burger, fries, and soda - pLUS! Change back from your dollar!”
Good stuff costs good money.
Keep track of that Target pillow.
In 1982 or so, I paid good money for real pillows. I wish I had bought 4 instead of 2.
I have spent the last 3 weeks in bed. No, not my idea - acute kidney failure.
You would not believe how glad I am for those pillows and a good mattress - MUCH more confty than the hospital (whose beds are WAY over-rated, btw)
Spend the money once or spend it 20 times. Your choice.
If you think the wealthy buy home furnishings at Wal-Mart,
I got some news.
Just as “it is the dull knife which cuts you” (you need to force the blade, thereby losing control), the poor quality stuff costs more than the good stuff.
How many sofas have you owned so far?
How old do you suppose the furniture in the Rockefeller houses?
The only thing where cheap beats quality is the literal “use once and throw away” - for a single use, you can put up with crap.
My first car was 40 years old and had a broken frame member. i was 18 or so. I had been sawing at that thing with a dime-store hack saw when a HVAC guy from the club stopped by, saw what I was trying to do, and retrieved his saw from his truck.
It tok him all of 10 seconds to cut through that.
Lesson learned.
I did buy cheap pipe wrenches to deal with some (long obsolete) steel water pipes in a very old house.
30 years later, I still find myself using them.
Food, otoh, IS a “use once and throw away”