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audra trower williams
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posted 30 July 2004 12:02 PM
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.
From: And I'm a look you in the eye for every bar of the chorus | Registered: Apr 2001
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Michelle
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Babbler # 560
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posted 30 July 2004 12:15 PM
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/62am8Michelle 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 ]
From: I've got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell. | Registered: May 2001
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Mr. Magoo
guilty-pleasure
Babbler # 3469
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posted 30 July 2004 12:17 PM
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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Timebandit
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posted 31 July 2004 02:33 AM
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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