One case where people make huge inconsistent tradeoffs—when buying/renting an apartment.
In the area I live renting an 80 sqm apartment might cost 1500 dollars a month, and a 160 sqm apartment 2500 dollars, for a cost per additional square metre of 12 dollars per month.
They’ll then see a good deal on toilet paper (or whatever), and waste an entire square metre of space on storing a year’s worth of toilet paper to save 10 dollars.
If they’d just rented a cheaper apartment they would have had the same amount of free space, bought a months supply of toilet paper at a time, and saved 90 dollars.
Similarly people will buy the cheapest storage options which don’t maximize space, rather than carefully designing a perfect storage solution which will cost more, but save an incredible amount of space.
When I buy a lot of some product, it is primarily to avoid having to shop for it more often. Which is, in turn, why I am spending extra money for extra storage space.
One case where people make huge inconsistent tradeoffs—when buying/renting an apartment.
In the area I live renting an 80 sqm apartment might cost 1500 dollars a month, and a 160 sqm apartment 2500 dollars, for a cost per additional square metre of 12 dollars per month.
They’ll then see a good deal on toilet paper (or whatever), and waste an entire square metre of space on storing a year’s worth of toilet paper to save 10 dollars.
If they’d just rented a cheaper apartment they would have had the same amount of free space, bought a months supply of toilet paper at a time, and saved 90 dollars.
Similarly people will buy the cheapest storage options which don’t maximize space, rather than carefully designing a perfect storage solution which will cost more, but save an incredible amount of space.
When I buy a lot of some product, it is primarily to avoid having to shop for it more often. Which is, in turn, why I am spending extra money for extra storage space.