I often hear, “You should never cheap out on a good office chair, shoes, underpants, backpack etc…” but what are some items that you would feel OK to cheap out on?

This can by anything from items such as: expensive clothing brands to general groceries.

  • Omega_Haxors
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    11 months ago

    More helpful advice is don’t spend money on gaming anything. It’s 10x more expensive and it’s fucking shit. The industry sees gamers are marks and will absolutely fleece you on overpriced and horrible quality ‘gaming’ products which are cheaply made and planned obsolesce to shit.

    You can get a way more comfortable experience at a way lower cost by buying office equipment instead. I have a logitech wireless headset that has been in use for 2 years, and in storage for another 2. I plugged it in and it still fucking works. The literal foam on the ears has dusted away but everything else about it is just as good as when I bought it. The same can’t be said for my crappy gaming headset which was uncomfortable out of the box, hardly lasted a full year before deteriorating, and is now all but inoperable. Not user serviceable, either.

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      11 months ago

      My Logitech g35 gaming headset worked for near 15 years before crapping the bed. With near daily use for several hours at a time.