Spending $1 for a brand new house would feel very very good. Spending $1 000 for a ham sandwich would feel very very bad. Spending $19 000 for a small family car would feel well more or less right. But as with physical pain fiscal pain can depend on the individual and everyone has a different threshold.
I think I'm so old I'm in. We call it the 'Tony Bennett Syndrome.' For some reason young people think I'm cool.