Inexpensive and Cheap
Something I’ve heard all my life is the distinction made between something that’s cheap - lacking in quality - and something that’s merely inexpensive, which I guess just means something that’s priced below its actual value. I think these two terms really are completely equivalent, since you can’t really have inexpensive goods without them also being cheap in some way. My barber thought that the price we paid for our bamboo flooring was exorbitant at $5 a square foot, when we could have just gone down to Lowe’s and bought bamboo at $2 a foot. Some people think it’s funny that we boycott Wal-Mart, and wind up paying more for some things as a result. But the bamboo at Lowe’s can be scratched by a human thumbnail, so it doesn’t have a hope of holding up to our dog; and you can bet there’s a lot more behind the scenes of how Lowe’s brings flooring that carries the name ‘bamboo’ to its customers at $2 a square foot. It’s cheap ...
Posted on April 5, 2008 11:30:08 PM EDT
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