6. I have quite a few shirts. 20, to be exact.

Now I wouldn't want you to think that I was particularly materialistic. Simply amassing vast numbers of corporeal possessions is not a good aim for one's life. You could be curing sick kittens of illnesses instead, or something equally worthwhile. (I'll be getting along to mentioning Huntingdon Life Sciences some time later, but for a reason that will take a while to explain). Or you could be educating people around the world about the dangers of puffer fish. Or teaching them to swim. Or something. After all, it's not as if the boy with the most toys wins when we all die...

On the other hand, it's nice to have nice things. And by a simple process of buying nice things and not immediately losing them down the back of the sofa, you can begin to put together a collection of them. And thus, without ever intending to, having no ambition to or burning dream that some day this might happen, I've managed to get more than £800 of shirts into my wardrobe.

Why does this make me better than you?

a) My ironing schedule is highly efficient. One day every month I iron 20 shirts, and for the rest of the month have no need to concern myself with steam.
b) I'm thrifty. It's relatively easy to put together £800 of shirts, if you pay £80 for each one. Cunningly, I only buy my shirts when they're in sales, taking advantage of the fact that a well-tailored shirt never goes out of fashion.
c) And by corollary with b), I know when to spend money. I could have 800 shirts from Poundstretcher, but none of them would feel comfortable, look good or be easy to iron.
d) A well-ironed shirt is one of the signs of a elegant gentleman. Thus, I have 20 such signs, each of them carefully manufactured from high quality materials.