I highly doubt that anyone鈥檚 wife here has 200 pairs of $500 shoes (maybe I鈥檓 deluding myself as to potential consumption levels) but it sems to me both those examples exceed the bounds of what鈥檚 deemed reasonable by the vast majority of humanity and so it鈥檚 kind of pointless to try to make any sense of it.... Even though I accept the notion that watches (in theory) can be resold.