Oh please. Now it is about the relative value of the item? Before it was because you had to buy it with your own money or you weren't a real man. Make up your mind.
Always has been about the relative value. That's basic economics. Was your wife smarter than you, too, because you sound like stupid SOB. Hopefully your kids got something from her. If they got anything from you, it's just another generation of dumbasses in your family line.