48 Examples Why Quantity Over Quality Is Sometimes Better

"Toilet paper. No matter how good it is, if there's not enough, it's bad."

"Spending time with your kids. Your kids don't care that you took them to France for two weeks, if you're not around the rest of the year. It's much more important to be present, and to be a part of their daily routines.

When I say "spending time", I mean interacting with them. Not just occupying the same room and being inattentive. Also, yes, I get it, if they spend all day beating you, then it's not great. I'd like to think I didn't have to be explicit about that."

"Puppies, a good puppy is great, but being covered in a swarm of them is heavenly."

RaeSor said:
"Presence over presents."

20mcfadenr replied:
"Completely agree... if parents buy everything the kid wants but never spends time with them they aren’t good parents"

"Happiness. I’d rather have more people happy than fewer people with more happiness."

"Dollars. I'll take one million even if they are in barely acceptable condition."

xghoulishmiragex said:
"Guitar picks. It doesn't matter if you have a crappy hand-me-down one or a fancy collector's one, you're going to lose it one way or another."

Dackelwackel replied:
"I met a guitar player a few weeks ago who mentioned that she has the same pick since, dunno, 15 years or so. It's a tear drop-shaped one, which was pretty expensive, as she said."

N0_Tr3bbl3 replied:
"I have one that's 20 years old. I haven't been using it that long, it just got lost for 19 1/2 years."

"A few years back, my mom ordered an amazon Alexa from a eBay. Rather than ordering it from amazon like anyone else would've, she decided to be stubborn and order again when 2 weeks passed and no delivery. 2 weeks became a month, and at this point my mother had ordered about a dozen of these Alexas in Joes of one showing up finally. This was in early march 2016. She eventually forgot about it. Then august 2017 happened. I walk downstairs in the morning to see her complaining about getting 17 knockoff Chinese Alexas that talk in a very unsettling voice. She tries to return them but has no success there, so finally giving into defeat, she gives them to me since no one else would want them. They really can't do much on their own, but once i discovered that they will repeat any phrase you tell them to, I would put them all within close vicinity, and this is where the fun began. I would say "Alexa, say Alexa", and then out them on full volume. After about 30 seconds the only audible noise within my household was a domino effect of knockoff Alexas reciting the command which triggered their surrounding comrades. I can also Bluetooth connect them to all play songs from my phone. They are not consistent with their timing so the songs come out as the un God-forsaken sounds of satan being b***-forked dry in a wind tunnel. I love my dysfunctional Alexas. All 17 of them."

-eDgAR- said:
"Water when you're fighting a fire. Can't put out a burning building with a bottle of Fiji water."

z_utahu re replied:
"Firefighters often use wetted water because it works better."

aliennick4812 replied:
"It's basically like soapy water, reduces the surface tension so it can creep into smaller surfaces regular water wouldnt reach. Dried water is what they send up to the ISS to save weight."

frederick0o said:
"Points in any match. Doesn't matter how you scored, a point's a point."

sakibug replied:
"Unless you're a contestant on whose line is it anyway because the points don't matter."

ZuMelon said:
"Hair ties and bobby pins because you lose them anyway."

puffpastry2001 replied:
"I can't agree more. In my household, there's also the possibility that our cat has stolen them. I'd rather have extra over needing to wrestle the cat for something I paid way too much for."

"Pens and pencils. I swear I lose them all the time. Why waste money on one good pen I'll lose when I can buy a lot of sh***y ones and feel better when I lose them."

"Edible food. For some people at least."

"Creativity. The more you do, the better you get. Full stop."

icecream_truck said:
"Qualified votes in an election. Quality is 100% irrelevant."

Clickum245 replied:
"In America, you could consider a rural vote to be higher quality than an urban vote because of its weight in the electoral college."

"Practice. People learning something like programming, art or any other skill will get better far faster by busily churning out piles of work and learning from mistakes instead of trying to pursue perfection."

"People showing up at your tag sale."

"Hair on the head."

"When learning to make music. Or anything creative really. In the beginning, the most important thing is to write a lot of music. Get out all the bad music out of your system and then catch the good ones when they come. Listen to the song you have made. What do you not like about it? Make a mental note and move on to the next song and apply the new information on that song. Don't try to polish a t**d. I think this goes for a lot of things. But of course not everything."

"Chicken nuggets. They could be the best artisanal hand crafted nuggets made from only free-range super happy chickens and micro-brewed beer batter - but if there's only 4 or 5 of them, I'm gonna have a bad time. My record is ~40 in one (long) sitting. That was a regretful morning-after-the-night-before."