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Value for Money?

Sharpfinger

Sharpfinger

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Never mind the price of steel and timber!

Yet someone will pay these prices.

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My daughter has a part time job at a clothing outlet , fits in around her A levels. I won't name the store but it's ladies clothing and is priced towards the higher end. To be fair they seem a decent company to work for , decent wages , discounts and so on . They do like the staff to wear something from their own range and gave my daughter an allowance to buy something. She chose a top , nice pattern over black , but it ate up Ā£80 of her allowance which was nearly half. My own personal feeling is that we have got used to cheap clothing in the same way that we have with cheap food. A lot of this cheap stuff has been on the back of cheap labour and even child labour. If we look back historically clothing took up more of our ancestors income and was valued far more. For example clothing was very often repaired to a high degree to keep it useful for longer and some items were passed from one generation to the next.
Clothing returning to it's historical norm might not be a bad thing in some respects , there'd probably be more concern given to not just chucking stuff away because it's out of fashion or because one is bored. Course the caveat there is that the clothes are decent quality and price rises actually make their way to those making them rather than into the pockets of CEO's and shareholders.
 
Ystranc said:
Over 3 grand for a knife, f**k that. My Hultafors cost me a little over Ā£4 and itā€™s razor sharp.
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Since Iā€™ve been looking at it Jennie has always catered for the full range of the market; Iā€™ve bought hultfors knives off them for about Ā£3 each and viewed but never been tempted by knives costing far more. Realistically itā€™s the consumers that create the market and bushcrafters can be an elitist bunch who want the ā€œnext level upā€.
Iā€™d rather buy another motorbike than a 3 grand knife and my wife doesnā€™t know how to drive one so she couldnā€™t kill me with it as easily if I did!

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