My husband and I are analytical, and he’s decided to bring that even into painting (walls) too. I tell him how indecisive my mom is with paint colors, and how long it’s going to take my dad to paint the living room (they’re high cielings). He calculated how much the paint may cost, gave my dad and mom’s time a price, and he came up with some large number that it actually costs to paint the living room.
He thinks we’d do better just changing our own minds on what paint colors we like (basically, I should learn to live with white walls, because if the walls clashed, than that is legitimate) than to take the time to paint. So his views are much more than just being frugal... so his views on paint go back to consumerism and our culture in general, as our need to paint walls is so specific to this time and place, because , and Africans wouldn’t care about paint colors. Luckily for me, I can explain to him the psychology of decorating and use of time in the modern day and he can kind of get swayed... but I think it’s still going to be pulling teeth to paint walls.
I know it will be better once we purchase most of the furniture and kitchen stuff we need (we are waiting for his immigrant visa to get approved) (he doesn’t want us to buy stuff we don’t need for our house too), as I want us to get quality so we won’t have to replace it in a long time... but I do eventually want some of the rooms in our future house to be painted. I have to explain to him the value of how I see money and that white walls are barren, rather than serene. They aren’t interesting like colored walls. It isn’t some switch I can change in my mind. Luckily he isn’t crazy about restaurants, travel, or things like that, as he sees the value in these things.
TL:DR Anyone else have a spouse that frugality to the extreme? Husband is so frugal he is happy to live with white walls. OP wants painted walls because there is value in aesthetics.
February 12, 2018 at 10:20AM
