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When you’re in your sixties or older with limited assets and income, you’ll likely find that no one will pay even one dollar for the toys and baubles that you spent much more for.

Lesson: You’ll realize they did not bring you more than a few minutes’ pleasure and you’d much rather have the money now—preferably with interest.

ALTERNATIVE THEORY: Let’s say you bought something for $100 and you used it a few times each year for 20 years. Then you realized that you really didn’t need it anymore. You couldn’t even sell it for ten bucks at a tag sale and you gave it to the Salvation Army. Some people feel miserable if they lost 100% of the cost.

Lesson: Another way to look at it is that you used it 50 times and got a pleasure from it for just $2 each time. That’s not so bad.