interesting exceptions to my tightfistedness

I've been a bit slow about buying meeple-related equipment or supplies - I've been putting items *onto* a list, but have yet to start checking any of them off of it. Part of that is my general miserly reluctance to exchange money for goods. It occurs to me now that there's another area of meeple preparation in which that's not at all true, which is that I'll merrily fork over significant sums of money for anything that sounds like some sort of education - childbirth class, infant/child CPR and first aid class, and now breastfeeding class. The usefulness of these classes is not obviously greater than that of major gear items like an infant carrier or co-sleeper or stroller, and the costs are in comparable ranges, but I hesitate to pull the trigger on the co-sleeper in a way I didn't at all about the CPR class. Some of that is surely that the classes have limited space and immediate deadlines, whereas there's really no risk that the world will run out of strollers if I delay, but some of it seems like something more interesting - a general sense, perhaps, that you can't really waste money on Learning Things in a way that you could quite easily waste it on Stuff? (Or maybe it's a paradox of choice thing - I just assumed we'd do Red Cross CPR classes, while there are thirty bazillion different options for strollers.)