Is pineapple a luxury good?

We have spent a lot of money lately on hiring a car, renting an apartment, and buying furniture plus appliances (a fridge and a washer to start with). Unfortunately neither MM or I have any income for this month. So it is natural for MM to get nervous when seeing our net worth number getting smaller day by day.

I am not as worried, frankly. For one thing, I am not in charge of managing our money (MM has always been interested in that domain and I'm not sure how much is due to his Jewish heritage. As for myself I love to cook and perhaps that's in my Chinese blood). Second, I am a happy-go-lucky character whose expertise is to engineer my own mood. If things don't turn out as planned, fine, I'll smile and change my own perspective...

Anyway, in our international relocation case although things are a bit wild it is still under control in my opinion. What do you expect when you try to start a new life on the other side of the Earth but all you have are a couple of suitcases? Naturally you have to shop until you drop, which was exactly what we had to do, at least for a couple of times. We were only after necessities really at this stage, and we spent quite a lot of time and energy looking for good deals.

Of course different people may have very different opinion about what necessity is. For MM he determined to live at minimum, and that is probably due to his six international moves and every time he had to get rid of things no matter what. So he hates to shop for new stuff and if he absolutely needs something, he still will buy it. But afterwards he has to leave the new thing alone for a while before he actually uses it (yeap, the 1st time she heard about it Yoyo was fascinated as well). Yoyo though believes in living within means but also likes to spoil herself once in a while, a pineapple for example.

(She has never been in debts and managed to live a comfort life with her graduate student salary for six years. By 'comfort' she means to have plenty of veggie, fruit or snack in general around. A rabbit by born, she like nibbling those sort of stuff. )

Yoyo found grocery in Australia costs more (compared to the US price). But one day she spotted a good deal on pineapple she decided to hop alone getting one. MM objected to the idea and his argument was "Pipeapple is a luxury good and we already had three types of fruit at home (apple, banana and orange)."

That day MM and Yoyo went back home without a pineapple but with realization that they were in fact somewhat different in terms of how to spend their money together...

(To be continued)