I am cheap..........very cheap.


Most often it serves me well and saves me significant amounts on quality items. An example would be buying a low-mileage 2 year old vehicle for half the cost of the exact same new vehicle.



But sometime it bites me in the *** and in the long run costs me more than if I had just bit the bullet and paid for a quality item from the beginning.


I recently purchased a very nice black argyll jacket for dressier functions. I looked around online for quite awhile and purchased an off-the-rack jacket from one of the sponsers here. It is a really nice quality item and I am very happy with it. It also saved me quite a bit over having one custom made.

However, I am not an off-the-rack type build of a person and I knew that when I ordered the jacket, hoping it would fit well enough to look good anyway.

It didn't, but after $90 in alterations from a top notch tailor it fits great. In the end, it cost me not much less than if I had gone with a custom jacket and I have a feeling a custom jacket would still fit me better.

I just want to re-state, none of this is the fault of the sponsor I bought the jacket from. They provided me with an excellent quality product for an excellent price.


The lesson for me is: sometimes being cheap pays off, but often you need to spend the money to get the quality (or fit in this case) that you want.