The Official Value Town Seal
Welcome to the new section dedicated to all things value town related. Value town is originally a term coined from Poker. It’s when a player knows he has the best hand, but still makes a bet hoping for a call. If the bet is called by a losing player, that player was taken to value town. The perfect bet is the largest bet the losing player would have called. It’s a term that encompasses the idea of maximizing value.
Maximizing value is something I find extremely rewarding, especially in today’s weakened global economy. I am here to share with you Overidon.com readers my insights on every day valuetowning. This section will be dedicated to giving you the biggest bang for your buck. If you see the official seal in any post, you know it’s been verified to be a value proposition.
A little history about myself will reveal a little about my psyche and perhaps the reason behind my obsession with all things value town.
When I was in elementary school, I was given $2 every day to buy lunch. Lunch was $1.75 so I was able to keep a quarter. Each day, I put that quarter away into a yellow lunchbox. By the 5th grade I saved so many quarters that I started having trouble lifting the lunchbox. Even still, I considered it a good problem to have. I always carried it around with me. I counted my coins every weekend on the couch, beside my dad watching TV. It was tedious, but always satisfying.
Well one, day Street Fighter II came out for the SNES. I played the game several times in arcades and simply fell in love with it. Comboing hadoukens into shoryuken’s was addicting. I had to have the game! But of course, it was $70 USD and what 9 year old can afford that? I asked my parents to buy it for me, but I wasn’t getting the grades they wanted me to get to justify the purchase. Fortunately for me, I had my yellow lunchbox with exactly $94.75 in it.
I remember the exact day I was able to go into Toys”R”Us and pay for the game entirely in quarters. At first, the lady at the cash register gave me a look of disbelief. After she saw the smile I had on my face once the game was placed in a bag and handed to me, she smiled and said, “Congratulations.” She knew I saved a long time to buy the game. Years of saving and I was finally able to buy something the average 9 year old could never afford.
To this day, nothing to me is more satisfying than saving here and there on small things to buy the big things I really want. Instead of Street Fighter II, I’m looking to buy a home now. I’ve consciously saved during my six year working career for that “American dream.” I’m pleased to say I’m fairly certain I will accomplish that goal within the next couple of years.
-Nauticaboy