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Comment author: wuncidunci 24 October 2013 12:12:44AM 0 points [-]

Coffee purchases seem to be done by near-mode thinking (at least for me), while having children is usually quite planned.

Personally I like giving myself quite a bit of leniency when it comes to impulsive purchases in order to direct my cognitive energy to long-term issues with higher returns. Compare and contrast to the idea of premature optimization in computer science.