a proverb a day: Cheapest is the dearest

how about a long term game, a proverb a day?   no obligation, no pressure, one miniute to make one, a few seconds to read one. Only the first post counts, if you see someone already posted one, hold on to next day; No problem if duplicated, coz we all forget, need to refresh, except 梅雨潭最強大腦不用refresh.  

Cheapest is the dearest (=most expencive). said to mean that: Cheap things cause you to spend more money because they break easily and you have to replace ("Dear" in this sense is another word for "expensive.")