Reaching for the best!

How often do you find yourself especially during grocery shopping choosing the cheaper version of an item of similar origin and description?

I find that I do that many times especially looking out for on offer or on sale items.

This probably explains why nowadays items getting more and more inferior in quality be it in terms of food and electrical items.You notice how products of bygone years seem to last longer like for example my washing machine. Just recently changed it after it started to make funny sounds but it served us very well for more than 20 years.

That is because suppliers work around the budget to produce the items are prices that consumers are willing to pay. So packaging either becomes smaller, tissues became thinner, cotton buds become flimsier and foodstuffs are mixed with cheaper but alternative colouring, flavoring and etc.

Some suppliers even resort to mixing the quality products in the same box, eg. a box of colouring pencils, maybe the black and white will be good quality but the rest the quality are compromised.

I read before in an article in the newspaper that we must remove this "cheap mentality" in order to progress. It is because of us consumers always asking for cheaper goods, the suppliers have no option but to cut costs and in cutting costs, we are ultimately buying inferior quality products.

It was interesting that a friend shared that he educate his children not to consume too much chicken as there are too much hormones in poultry nowadays. He note that through this his children are smaller in size than their peers. Of a more asian-like size I suppose. Not only that his daughter does not reach puberty that early. It is of great concern that girls nowadays get their first menstrual cycle much earlier than those of our forefathers.

So when buying products, I think it is important that we do not sacrifice quality for price. This attitude will somehow overflow and affect the choices that we make in life too. I find that after years of doing this in some decisions which I made I subconsiuosly too do not choose the best but always reach for the second best even though I can afford it and deserve better.

So my final word is "what you pay, is what you get" so try to aim for the best in everything cos life is short and we deserve the best.