The past few nights I have been sleeping on a new pillow that I bought for $37/- and let me tell you that for me is a really expensive buy for a pillow. But my head just sinks softly and blissfully into this particuarly luxury item.

I didn’t think that pillows can cost that much since I am still caught in a time/price warp. 30 -40 years ago we made our own pillows. I still have a pillow my mother made for me 30 years ago. Ten years ago I did buy two new pillows - made with down ( organic pillows are better I was told) till a couple of months ago when the feathers started escaping their cover and eventually began pecking me and disturbing my sleep.

I spotted a pillow at NTUC for $9/ and bought it. It seemed like a decent price for a pillow! But my head kept bouncing off. I comforted myself that it was a new pillow and it would settle down. A few days ago I spotted pillows on sale and these have been reduced from $75/ - $55/ and the penny dropped - there are pillows which costs way above $9/- well, way above and you can pay up to a few hundreds for a pillow.

I decided that my $9/- pillow was not going to settle down at all to ensure me a comfortable night’s sleep hence my purchase of a $37/- pillow from Robinsons’.

This reminds me of a story that my nephew told me. He talked of a classmate who received a $5,000/- gift  from her father for doing well in her O’ level. What did she do with the money? She bought two handbags - two handbags for $5,000/- and she spend it in 20 minutes!

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