For the record, like CTRebbe:
I DON”T LIKE CREAM CHEESE, either.
For 40 years, I have paid for the butter at my shul’s Sunday morning breakfasts because the shammos insisted on only serving cream cheese.
My eldest brother also does not eat cream cheese.
Our nieces and nephews know that if you invite the uncles to a milchige event, we will show up with sealed packages of butter. We tired of eating dry bagels decades ago.
So, if cream cheese was $10 a container or 50 cents it would not affect my purchasing decision. As for hats, a good hat that is properly cared for: cleaned, blocked, stored in the cedar closet on the summer, should last many decades. At this point I am wearing my summer straw collection in colors to match my suits. Today I’m wearing a medium blue with a navy hatband to match my navy suit with a medium blue pinstripe. I have to be in court at 9 and as I’ve posted before: Judges wear Black, smart attorneys do not (hear in Yankee New England).