People spend $1400 dollars on handbags?

God Is My Co-Pirate: RexTalionis: People spend $1400 dollars on handbags?

People often spend money on things you wouldn't. Can we just get that out of the way?

Doesn't make it less dumb.

God Is My Co-Pirate: You might equally complain about $1400 for a vacation, or for a piece of art, or stereo equipment, or aftermarket car parts.

I do, except for the art. That actually has a value which may appreciate or not. Everything else will just depreciate, whether from use or from the fact that they're consumables.

TheOther: RexTalionis: God Is My Co-Pirate: You might equally complain about $1400 for a vacation, or for a piece of art, or stereo equipment, or aftermarket car parts.

I do, except for the art. That actually has a value which may appreciate or not. Everything else will just depreciate, whether from use or from the fact that they're consumables.

Do you lease food?

If you'd pause for a second, you'll realize that we're talking about luxury goods.

... $1400 handbag ... totes stupid

What you did there, I see it.

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With a helpful map of where this all went down.

skinink: Jeebus farking christ, a bag that expensive better be filled with gold dust.

It better be encrusted with money and filled with blowjobs. Good blowjobs.

Personally, I know people who are dirt-poor, and I know people who are filthy rich, and by comparison it's consistently the poor people who know the value of a dollar. Which really isn't surprising.

/I didn't tell you to say that about broccoli.
//obscure

vexle: And who then spend that dollar on an Escalade.

You need to think harder about what "dirt-poor" means. I'm not saying poor people automatically have good taste or can always make wise economic decisions. Most people have bad taste and can't usually make wise economic decisions.

AbbeySomeone: Why is it that poor women like the most bling?

In my experience, they don't -- it's just that poor women who happen to be impressed with bling are a hell of a lot more likely to display it where you'll see it. I've known a number of wealthy women who have tens of thousands of dollars worth of jewelry that they keep in a safety box and never wear, but if a woman with a net worth of $30k has a $5k ring? She has more of a social incentive to wear it to the bar.

Rich people don't need bling. Well, except for insecure nouveau riche. My really wealthy friends don't buy gold chains to impress their wealthy friends. They buy $50k paintings that look like a five-year-old did them and put them in their foyer. Because what impresses another rich person is that you would casually waste that much money on crap for your foyer.

But that guy goes to PF Chang's, and you can't see the painting in his foyer. See how that works?