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audra trower williams
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posted 30 July 2004 12:02 PM      Profile for audra trower williams   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Barf.

There are manythings wrong with it. Like the 25 THOUSAND DOLLAR BED, for example. Like, I know, why not buy your kid a ... say ... TWO thousand dollar bed, if you want to be so stupid, and then send some kid to college or something.

Also sickening are the boys for girls versus rooms for girls.

Oh it's all so gross. Like, it's lovely stuff, sure. But a 300 dollar kleenex box? Like, does anyone need to spend that kind of money?

It makes me so upset. Like on The Fabulous Life Of, when they're talking about Pink staying in a hotel suite that costs 20K a night or whatever. I just can't help but think "Could you stay home maybe that weekend, and donate a library of books to an innercity school?" It just stresses me out so much, and makes me so sad.

Like, you could literally change a family's future with the kind of money that people spend on the dumbest things.


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Kittielungs
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posted 30 July 2004 12:09 PM      Profile for Kittielungs   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Imagine what that money could do for a kid struggling in highschool. I'm all for spoiling your own kids a little once in a while but this. This is just blowing money for the sake of blowing money.

Hello by the way.


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paxamillion
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posted 30 July 2004 12:12 PM      Profile for paxamillion   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by audra trower williams:
Like, you could literally change a family's future with the kind of money that people spend on the dumbest things.

When I was 19 years of age, the church I attended started a building project. They chose to build a new sanctuary, rather than go to two services on Sunday morning. They put together $750,000 in donations to do this debt-free.

I was horrified. Imagine the good works that could be done with $750,000! I left the church.


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lagatta
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posted 30 July 2004 12:14 PM      Profile for lagatta     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
It has nothing to do with the kids. It is simply a matter of showing off, conspicuous consumption. Should we reinstate sumptuary laws?

Miaow, Kittielungs.


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Michelle
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posted 30 July 2004 12:15 PM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Hi Kittielungs, welcome to babble!

I agree. Audra and I have been entertaining ourselves for the past little while by sending each other links to particularly egregious items from that site.

quote:
Audra says:
http://tinyurl.com/62am8

Michelle says:
click!

Audra says:
I think your son needs a 900 dollar tuffet.

Michelle says:
Oh, I'm SO SURE. Yeah, I'll get right on that. Right after I buy him a $300 tissue box holder: ]http://www.poshtots.com/pt/catalog/product_detail.asp?product_id=3389


[ 30 July 2004: Message edited by: audra trower williams ]

[ 30 July 2004: Message edited by: Michelle ]


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Mr. Magoo
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posted 30 July 2004 12:17 PM      Profile for Mr. Magoo   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Well, I thought the Kleenex box was Phucked, with a capital 'P', but then I saw that for only $89 more you could have the "Premier" delivery — "unpack, place, & discard packaging - no assembly".

I mean, sure, I suppose I could take the phucking hunk of broken teacups out of the box all by myself, but then there's the "placing", and the throwing away of the bubble wrap and... oh screw this! Just bill me the ninety bucks and make it happen! I'm too busy for this!

Also, the mosaic "memory box" is a steal at only $650US. And that vintage princess chair? Or the heart tuffet? My "covetousness meter" is off the scale here folks!

(safe) [.........../..] (*consumer overload*)


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audra trower williams
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posted 30 July 2004 12:18 PM      Profile for audra trower williams   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I've decided a 900 dollar tuffet will not be sufficient. He needs a 40K toy car.

[ 30 July 2004: Message edited by: audra trower williams ]


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Mr. Magoo
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posted 30 July 2004 12:21 PM      Profile for Mr. Magoo   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
What the hell is a "Gazing Station"?
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paxamillion
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posted 30 July 2004 12:21 PM      Profile for paxamillion   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I like the Countach.
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Kittielungs
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posted 30 July 2004 12:23 PM      Profile for Kittielungs   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Hey thanks Michelle.

Oh brother, I can't for the life of me figure out what you have to become in life to start thinking this stuff is important.

We had to get my daughter a new bed this year and we went all out on the $200 jobbie. The emotional damage we must have done to that poor kid of ours with this abusive furniture situation we have around the homestead. I hang my overly sarcastic head in shame.


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DrConway
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posted 30 July 2004 12:23 PM      Profile for DrConway     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I'm floored. These kids don't even know, unlike teenagers, that they're being massively spoiled and being trained to be totally out of touch with what the majority of kids go through every day.

I feel sorry for the little tykes who find out not everyone has parents who can waste two years' worth of median incomes on beds. (ie. about $64,000)


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skdadl
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posted 30 July 2004 12:27 PM      Profile for skdadl     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Tuffet? Did I hear someone say tuffet?

I must have a tuffet. Those are maybe a touch rococo, although I liked the pink pig one with ceramic feet, and I always fall for Paris ...

If I got one, though, lagatta would level a sumptuary law against me.

kittielungs: prrrrrrrrrow!


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skdadl
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posted 30 July 2004 12:28 PM      Profile for skdadl     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
PS: Michelle! Sidescroll!
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Michelle
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posted 30 July 2004 12:43 PM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Sorry! Is it better now?
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skdadl
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posted 30 July 2004 12:44 PM      Profile for skdadl     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
All better.
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Doug
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posted 30 July 2004 12:48 PM      Profile for Doug   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I never thought I would see a kid's toy that was worth more than I make in a year.
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Cougyr
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posted 30 July 2004 12:55 PM      Profile for Cougyr     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
At least this stuff is for people. Some idiots spend this kind of money on dogs.

Ever been to the Hearst estate in San Simeon? My visit taught me that those who have enough money to buy anything, will.


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robbie_dee
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posted 30 July 2004 04:41 PM      Profile for robbie_dee     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Reminds me a bit of this thread: Refined, Picky & 3 Feet Tall!
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shannifromregina
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posted 30 July 2004 06:11 PM      Profile for shannifromregina     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
My kids have a bedroom set that was mine when I was little. So technically since it is over 25 years that it would be an antique painted all blue. So I was wondering those people whom buy 64000 dollar beds would like a whole antique bedroom set for say 25,000 dollars. For that price I will even deliver it. Damn nothing better to do with money. If these parents aren't careful we will have more Paris Hilton's.
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angrymonkey
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posted 30 July 2004 08:55 PM      Profile for angrymonkey     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
OMG
I usually try to avoid sites/television shows like this. I just get too worked up. I remember seeing on tv a high priced resort on some island that had an outrageous fee. Thousands for the night. And then all these rich people have to try it to see what's so amazing and brag about it later.
Is there a celebrity/filthy rich person out there that doesn't treat themselves to things like this? I mean there are people that donate time and money to causes but it seems when you're making so much money buying islands and castles doesn't seem outrageous anymore. Why do they think they deserve it? And everybody else runs out to buy a lottery ticket.
Makes me think of a business success story where the guy said how miserable he felt working under a boss. His solution?- start his own business!
In the accompanying photo you can see his cheshire cat grin and the feeble smiles of his employees in the background dreaming of their way out.

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Timebandit
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posted 31 July 2004 02:33 AM      Profile for Timebandit     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Those bedrooms! My gawd.

But you know, those rooms and all the expensive gee-gaws aren't for the kids. Any normal, healthy child who spends any length of time in an over decorated, over-engineered environment like that will destroy it. I give the wild grils a week, and serious elements would be dismantled. Sure, it looks adorable in a catalog, but kids need stuff that's meant to be USED.

I kind of went overboard on the kids' rooms last winter. We stenciled big pink roses and yellow sunflowers on the walls, and then added fairies, butterflies and birds in many colours. I splurged on fairy-princess quilts and some Ikea roll-up blinds in blue with pink and red gingham.

After looking at this site, I don't feel so bad. The rooms look fabulous, the kids love them, and I spent less than $300 on both rooms. Beds were hand-me-downs, dresser from Ikea and another from a garage sale. Toyboxes built by their dad, and painted (rosemaling style) by grandma. Who says you need thousands to give your kids a beautiful environment?


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Mandos
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posted 31 July 2004 03:12 PM      Profile for Mandos   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
A friend of mine and I were having fun with the concept:

http://www.pointsofinformation.ca/archives/individual/2004/07/31/cdjones_let_them_drive_porsches_234.html


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Michelle
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posted 31 July 2004 03:41 PM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Posting to get rid of the sidescroll on Today's Active Topics.
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