Quote Originally Posted by Woot22 View Post
I would punch myself in the face if I ever paid $700 bucks on a pair of shoes, no way no how.
One lesson I have learned is that things may not always go up in price, but the ones you want generally do. $700 for a pair of shoes sounds ridiculous to me, too, but then so did $200 at one time. There is an old story about Burns and his brother watching a rooster chasing a hen. Along came the farmer with some food and the rooster stopped to eat. Burns remarked "I hope I am never that hungry."

I don't imagine I'll ever be so rich that the price of a pair of shoes doesn't matter, but I have paid more for a nice lunch than I have paid earlier in my short life for a pair of shoes.