Welcome to Let it be easy with Susie Moore.

Hello friends, I'm coming at you with a PSA today. I don't know why more people don't talk about this.

I feel like it's something that maybe I've always known on some level, but it's not something I hear a lot and I think the world

would have us believe the opposite is true. What I am talking about today my friends is the fact that more expensive is not necessarily better.

The way that our brains are wired are to think that price and value are commensurate, right?

There's some type of fairness that exists when it comes to pricing.

Pricing over anything at all, a house, a car, a piece of furniture, a piece of

clothing. But the reality is, my friends, the thing that determines value is what we think and believe about something.

Almost always, I can't say always because that's too much of a sweeping statement,

but almost always, in my opinion and in my experience, have I found that price and value have actually nothing to do with each other.

A couple of quick cases in point.

When I was in France earlier this year,

I forgot to bring enough lingerie. We always figured something don't we? So I was thinking look I could

just get a couple of like cheapy t-shirt bras fine to get me through the trip but

then part of me who hates waste who likes to do my bit for the

environment thought you know what I'll just invest in a couple of like kind of

staple items that won't just see me through the trip but that I'll have for a few years, right?

It actually feels more economical that way.

I know there'll be less waste.

And today, as I'm packing for another trip,

I notice that these two items that I bought that weren't cheap,

they're falling apart. Like the wires are coming, it's just a mess and I'm like,

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