ACQUISITION COSTS

 As they used to explain to us back in basic navy school, it isn't the initial acquisition cost that hurts, it's the maintenance costs. It would have been somewhat clearer if they used a graphic.

I don't know about you, but my wanderings through the internet are now accompanied everywhere by little ads from Temu like the screen shot above. I've never bought anything there or even looked but I thought the juxtaposition in this one was amusing.