things

There are things whose price doesn’t seem proportionate to their usefulness. Simple things. Common things. One such item, which I bought from a drugstore in Germany a couple of years ago, is a reusable shopping bag. It’s a simple bag, made, I think, out of polyester and comes with a smaller bag to carry it in. I paid maybe 2€ for it. Since then I’ve been using it 3-4 times per week to carry around all kinds of stuff....

A few years I got a Casio F-91W watch (Wikipedia). I was looking for something that can double as a watch and stopwatch while explicitly not being a smartwatch. I wanted something light and sturdy. I was also looking for something inexpensive as I wasn’t sure if I was a watch person since I hadn’t worn any kind of jewelry in the broadest possible sense of that word for many years....