My colleague at the milk tea shop knew the price about everything. I called her the price checker. She knew what to buy, when, and where to buy it. She could almost calculate happiness and give it price value, and make it most economic for you. She could put that into words. I wouldn’t know how she did it. But the price checker had a way with numbers, and she knew what was the right time to buy something.
Like I would ask her say, I needed toilet paper. She would know the street price for it was $30 per ten rolls. She would know where it was on sale, and which brand makes for the right balance between the quality of paper and the price, and taken into account the happiness it would give you while using that paper. It’s right for the price, she would say.
Price checker loved going grocery shopping with me. It wasn’t lame. She made it look kind of beautiful, and she remembered all the prices, and had specific calculations in her mind. I could only know her in a rather shallow way, but I dare say she knew herself very well, to know how to spend her money in a way to please herself. To reduce the guilt and pain of money spending.
Say she wanted to get a bicycle, she would know how much it is, she knew how often she would use it, what would be the price per ride. Weighing out all the things, she would know just how much she really needed over wanted it.
It was rare to see women making sensible purchases. But her real value was. She knew instantly if you should buy something or not. And you wouldn’t regret not purchasing or purchasing it. She was often right about that kind of stuff.
It sounded like a very simple task. But for someone who always sought to be an average person, with average feelings, and had no good decision making process, it wasn’'t always easy to decide what was the right purchase or not to make.
Everybody was glad I had a sensible friend like the Price Checker. Someone who knew how to maximize happiness through the acquisition of objects with limited means. She also managed her time most efficiently, and let go of most unwanted activities if it did not spark joy. I felt inspired and prided myself that she would spend time with me to sort out my worries.
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