From a very young age, companies try to sell us on “big”, but big candy bars plus large soft drinks, large trucks and sedans, large houses plus condos – big, big, big! Anyone with financial regular sense understands that “big” isn’t everything when it comes to having the best for your situation.
With that being said, every one of us occasionally falls for the “size matters’ ‘ trope, plus find ourselves buying too much for what every one of us are searching for.
Such a lapse in judgement happened with myself and others the other day, when I was shopping around for a room cooling system to install in my garage! As I browsed the floor models, a salesman approached me, asking if I needed help, and to keep me interested, I said sure, plus explained what I needed. The salesman was great at his task, since he convinced myself and others to go with a room cooling system intended to cool a small warehouse! It sounded so enticing when I was down at the store, but now that I have it installed, I realize it was a mistake. The component I obtained cools the room so fast, it has incredibly short cycles. On top of the fact that the room heats up faster again, but it also means the component eats up power at an spine-chilling rate. My energy bill for the week after installing it was astronomical, in a word! I felt so silly for buying into size instead of doing research plus getting what I absolutely needed. Fortunately, a friend was willing to go with myself and others to the store plus find a smaller model. I was also feeling lucky just to sell my oversized component back to the store! Let that be a lesson: size isn’t everything, especially when it comes to appliances for the house!