My expensive new earphones promised to upgrade my life. Then they broke | Romesh Ranganathan

Like an idiot, I ordered them to replace my almost identical old pair that I was now convinced were trash

I have been known to be wildly inconsistent with my reactions to expensive items. I will happily overpay for a pair of jeans, and later that same day bemoan the state of the world when an ice-cream costs a fiver, despite both items having a similar manufacturing cost.

My biggest blind spot is headphones. I have become convinced that I need a pair for different situations. So I have a pair for the gym (barely used, obviously), a pair for everything else, and then a pair of wireless earphones for situations in which I don't feel like wearing headphones (or something; I can't remember how I justified it to my family).