Incidentally, my uncle loves Wagner and classical music, and I was travelling from one home to another so I had my headphones with me. He tried them and was amazed by them.
Yet when I visited again the next year he still had the same pair as before.
Now it would be one thing if my aunt and uncle were poor: they're nothing of the kind.
However, she was raised a Quaker and sadly bosses him around.
A woman's (my Aunt's) idea of economy is letting her youngest son drive a red mustang (and wreck it) but making a husband get permission to spend a couple hundred bucks.
Even my mother told my brother to buy a newer car instead of an older one. Although there is some sense in that (since he needs reliable transport), it's surprising she said that, given the old cars my parents have always driven for the past two decades. He bought a 2012 chrysler convertible.