I’ve had this same experience with watches! I have a clip-on watch that I picked up for walking, which I have had some five years now. It needed a new battery about… a year ago? But I’ve had expensive jewelry watches that were given as gifts mostly, fall apart in a few wears. Note that that says wears, not years. In fact, they usually do. I would say my own wisdom is to spend more than ten dollars on a watch, but less than thirty. Or you can go over 100 and find a watch with a lifetime guarantee…. but yeah, the watches in the 30-100 range are crap.
You know what? Corn nuts don’t smell that bad. Neither do Fritos. The way the guy talks about them, you’d think they smelled like radioactive guano. e_e I always groan when I see these “corn nuts smell bad” comics he does.
I actually eat well, exercise, and read a lot. Don’t mind these strips occasionally, but of late, they’ve been almost a good 3/4 of the strip.