Kelly, I wonder how far you actually take your claimed high and noble standards of where you, "Draw the line". I used to be a chef for a decade or so. I was very good at what I did and I worked in some pretty nice places up and down the West Coast. The places where I worked served excellent quality food and charged prices consistent with that quality. Yet, for some reason some people would decide to go to a cheaper place like Appleby's or some other corporate cookie cutter restaurant or even McDonald's. It sure didn't help our lunch or dinner business when another one of those slightly-better-than-fast-food places opened up nearby. They employ cooks without any special skills that work for less money and they don't use top notch ingredients. Hmmm...Starting to see the parallels here, Kelly?
So, when you go out to breakfast, lunch, or dinner do you
always go out to the place where you support a true craftsman that serves the highest quality ingredients? Or do you sometimes draw that, "Line" of yours a little lower? Maybe you can save a few bucks, get it a little faster, make it a little more convenient and go for the trendy but cheap chain restaurant or maybe even hit up the fast food drive through.
Yeah, that's what I thought. It sounds great to start preaching to everyone about your impeccably high standards but just how far do you actually carry that in your life? You may not eat out very often but if you ever have eaten at a less than top of the line restaurant then in essence you've also bought furniture from Ikea.
Some people just can't afford the best things in life all the time. Some people don't see the need to always strive for the best they can afford. I've never been to Ikea but from what it sounds like there are some guys on this forum who know what good furniture is and they feel the quality of Ikea isn't too bad after all. Yet there will always be
someone claiming to have some sort of noble set of standards by which they live, sneering at the rest of us who don't. Well, the standards are noble until you ask them about how they spend the rest of their money...
Bruce