Once upon a time, my dad told me to but the best as it is the cheapest. But as time passed, I came to know that he was playing the Paisa Vasool theory so much that he was slowly moving towards being Scrooge. Yes, even while looking for something to drink, he always asked me to drink tea. It was the cheapest available option and whenever I wanted to drink something, he bought me more and more tea. It might be different now, because the price of tea has gone up, and the new interest is black tea which costs one rupee less than normal tea.
He was always buying the cheapest available at the market and coming up with the idea that it is the best. Whenever he found an opportunity to get anything cheap, he was quick to buy them, and he has spent a lot of his life looking for discounts. When I wanted to buy my first bike, he gave me the TVS Centra which boasted of a hundred kilometre mileage. The car choice was always Maruti 800. It took me years to escape from this mileage addiction which was imposed on me.
Well, buying the cheapest has often landed us in trouble, but he only chooses to remember the success stories. He has been specialized in fighting with the auto rickshaw drivers over the fare – he did that in four major cities of India; Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore and Hyderabad. He was always proud of the two or three rupees which he saved, only to loss more later, but he was always happy about having saved something, and it seems to be something which he is doing even now.
He always wanted to go to market himself and find the cheapest to buy from there. When it is about the non-vegetarian, he skillfully tries to find something even cheaper, as he never really wants to eat it. When we were buying the first computer, he managed to travel to every possible seller and find the cheapest of them all, and he hoped to make this the common computer for all the relatives to save money for them all. He also did the same for our bicycle.
His idea has been to buy one book and let all of us relatives use it. I realized that when some of my books went missing and they started appearing in the relatives’ places. It was another part of that Paisa Vasool idea which left me with so much less to read during my school days. But it helped “the others”, nevertheless. It did help to create a feeling of oneness among the relatives for sure, even though it was at the expense of how much I scored during the exams. Well, I was never the priority, and so it was okay.
Well, this trait of finding the extra value is something more though, as when utilized at the right time with the best skills, can be something which creates the best results. It saves money and makes us feel a lot better if used with efficiency. There is the need to find the right ingredients with the appropriate vision. It is in our blood, and so it will come to us sooner or later. There is more than one way to use this, and we are sure to find more and more methods for the same.
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