Teenagers and younger girls with designer handbags

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#106
ShoewhoreNYC said:
I'm 21 and I live with my boyfriend who has bought me my entire collection. I own ysl, CLs, Alexander wang, Gucci, GZ, AW shoes, prada, Isabel marant etc whats the problem with a man supporting his woman? That's what men are supposed to do! If he ain't spending it on you he gonna spend it on the next lol
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I am an older professional woman who buys her own bags now but when I was a student and 21, my boyfriend then got me my first LV wallet and Speedy and the rest is history.
You have a good man there, just enjoy the relationship... and the bags...
I wish that my husband will be that nice and get me the LV Alma that I am dreaming off...Ha!Ha!
 
#107
Ever since I was a little girl I always dreamed of owning designer bags, flipping through pages of Vogue or seeing them in public only made my lust grow stronger. When I turned 21 I was given 2 designer bags as gifts, one from my aunty and one from my parents. Six months later I also managed to purchase one myself.

I don't know if it rubs anybody the wrong way when they see me down the street carrying such nice bags as im still quiet young but I can personally say that I sole heartily appreciate the bags that I was given as gifts and would never use them to rub it in anybody's faces. If anything, if I find people are staring at my bag, sometimes I feel embarrassed to be getting so much attention, but I like having nice things!

I don't flaunt my accessories in people's faces on purpose, but I guess if I saw a young girl carrying a Chanel bag acting bratty or using it in a way to gather attention it wouldn't leave a great impression and could tarnish this reputation of young girls carrying designer purses, ruining it for the rest of us! :/
 
#108
DollbabyGirl said:
I just want to chime in here and say, that I'm sure that your 'very large sample size' validates your point in your mind. But I would like give my opionion on YOUR response regarding Apple computers. Where my sister goes to highschool the school give the children laptop computers, one per child, they are required to bring the laptops to school everyday instead of textbooks, so they do not damage their backs. This is a government funded school, not a private one. The laptops they give out? apple notebooks, why? because they believe that they best fulfil the children's needs, particularly their media/creative subjects but including ALL subjects. Are you saying that they and the majority of other public schools in the state are just consumerism obsessec idiots who rather have fashionalble show off students than use tax payer's money effectively?

food for thought
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I have no doubt in my mind that Apple products are generally top notch. I own a Retina Display Macbook Pro, Macbook an Ipad, Ipod Touch, Iphone, Airport Express, apple tv, and half a dozen or so old ipods. I love them.

Apple volume pricing is a lot cheaper than an individual making a purchase, so that doesn't really prove anything about individual consumption habits. My dad used to have to approve spending budgets for the government lab he worked for, and he has told me how dirt cheap they get them for when they are buying thousands at a time.

On a different note, I think laptops are an ineffective expenditure for public funds, my school had a set of textbooks for home and one for the classroom and it worked out just fine.
 
#109
I bought my first designer bag in Paris when I was 17. I paid for it myself and had worked for minimum wage save up for it forever! I saw it in the window in the Chloé boutique and my heart just stopped beating for a second, and then I wen't in and bought it! Felt like queen of the world :laugh:

My parents don't get designer bags and stuff, even though they have money. The always invite me on holidays and ski holidays, but I've always paid for my bags myself. My BF is not paying for them either, and I kinda enjoy working for my bags - I appreciate them so much more when I know I've worked hard to get them :smile1:
 
#110
ShoewhoreNYC said:
I'm 21 and I live with my boyfriend who has bought me my entire collection. I own ysl, CLs, Alexander wang, Gucci, GZ, AW shoes, prada, Isabel marant etc whats the problem with a man supporting his woman? That's what men are supposed to do! If he ain't spending it on you he gonna spend it on the next lol
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Ditto!
 
#111
I'm within the age group you're talking about, and I feel that I have some pretty strong views about people owning/buying/asking for things that are ridiculously expensive. In my opinion, ridiculously expensive starts just below a thousand dollars.

Whether or not your parents can afford it, I think it has negative consequences for everyone. Many of the parents that buy their kids expensive things (purses, clothes, cars, electronics, etc) are not very present as parents. They try to placate their kids by buying them things. If you disagree with me, look around and see how many rich parents spend actual time conversing with their children like human beings.

As someone who doesn't like to be supported or have people buy things for me, I get fairly irritated when people don't work for and earn the things that they wear. Most of these young people don't know what it's like to work hard and budget. I know many, many people who simply 'dont work'. Their parents pay for everything. Whether their parents can or not doesn't mean much when your kid doesn't know the value of a dollar and hasn't learned a lot of the soft skills that jobs teach you. As well, the parents think they're helping their kids out sometimes by getting them to completely focus on their education, when really that prepares them less for getting a job and working in the real world.

Eventually, we all have to stop relying on our families and start providing for ourselves. Unless you go right to being a SAHM from being supported by your family, which I know there are people who consider this a viable way to live, but I could never do that.

My family has the money for tons of these luxury items, but we always saved and we buy things on sale, we buy used cars, we don't spend much at all, none of my siblings (or I) get everything we ask for. No matter how much money you have or don't have, you should primarily be saving in my opinion. The world is volatile and we don't know what might happen to us in any given day.

I pay for all of my everyday expenses, my parents pay for my tuition and I live with them, but all of my clothes and shoes and bags and my phone, internet, etc are all paid for with my own money. The exception being birthday presents, but I try not to ask for anything over 100 dollars.
 
#112
I am fine if they pay their designer goods with their own money. But if its from their parents, i cant help to stereotype them as "spoilt".

When i am a parent, as much as how worthy a kid is, i will never reward them with designer goods. Travel trips are good enough and gonna stay as memories and experience. Never adovcate expensive upbringing from young.
 
#114
^^^Hi, I get what you're saying, and I agree with your viewpoint in general; however, there are exceptions to that yardstick. As of now, I'm one of those people whose parents pay for everything; nevertheless, they never buy me luxury items, only pay for the necessities, tuition, etc. I would go out and work, but as an international student in a special arts field, there are not many jobs I can take on that are related to my area of expertise; with my recent injury as well, if my father was not generous enough to pay for my treatments, etc., I would literally be scraping the floor right now.

I guess my point is, it's hard to know what another person's circumstances may be like; as such, I usually refrain from judgement, unless those individuals are throwing their expensive belongings around, and looking down on others that don't have the same.
 
#117
0102030405 said:
I'm within the age group you're talking about, and I feel that I have some pretty strong views about people owning/buying/asking for things that are ridiculously expensive. In my opinion, ridiculously expensive starts just below a thousand dollars.

Whether or not your parents can afford it, I think it has negative consequences for everyone. Many of the parents that buy their kids expensive things (purses, clothes, cars, electronics, etc) are not very present as parents. They try to placate their kids by buying them things. If you disagree with me, look around and see how many rich parents spend actual time conversing with their children like human beings.

As someone who doesn't like to be supported or have people buy things for me, I get fairly irritated when people don't work for and earn the things that they wear. Most of these young people don't know what it's like to work hard and budget. I know many, many people who simply 'dont work'. Their parents pay for everything. Whether their parents can or not doesn't mean much when your kid doesn't know the value of a dollar and hasn't learned a lot of the soft skills that jobs teach you. As well, the parents think they're helping their kids out sometimes by getting them to completely focus on their education, when really that prepares them less for getting a job and working in the real world.

Eventually, we all have to stop relying on our families and start providing for ourselves. Unless you go right to being a SAHM from being supported by your family, which I know there are people who consider this a viable way to live, but I could never do that.

My family has the money for tons of these luxury items, but we always saved and we buy things on sale, we buy used cars, we don't spend much at all, none of my siblings (or I) get everything we ask for. No matter how much money you have or don't have, you should primarily be saving in my opinion. The world is volatile and we don't know what might happen to us in any given day.

I pay for all of my everyday expenses, my parents pay for my tuition and I live with them, but all of my clothes and shoes and bags and my phone, internet, etc are all paid for with my own money. The exception being birthday presents, but I try not to ask for anything over 100 dollars.
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:smile1:You are very wise. I agree with everything you said, especially the statement that I bolded.
 
#118
jailnurse93 said:
:smile1:You are very wise. I agree with everything you said, especially the statement that I bolded.
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Why thank you! I'm really interested in finances and such so I had fun reading everyone's posts. What are your thoughts towards credit cards? I just recently got one and it's unfathomable to me to not pay off the whole bill each month.
 
#119
0102030405 said:
Why thank you! I'm really interested in finances and such so I had fun reading everyone's posts. What are your thoughts towards credit cards? I just recently got one and it's unfathomable to me to not pay off the whole bill each month.
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YES! Like, who wants to give away money? That's what it is basically. People can really fall in sometimes...

We were never given everything we wanted when I was raised. We did appreciate everything though, I have great Christmas memories, even though we did not get alot. I cannot imagine asking my parents for a bag or shoes that costs even hundreds of dollars back then. My father was a steelworker and my mother was a secretary. I have a sibling who became very successful financially but still have those values instilled in them. They raised their kids the way we were raised and they have turned out 10x the people that we are!
 
#120
jailnurse93 said:
YES! Like, who wants to give away money? That's what it is basically. People can really fall in sometimes...

We were never given everything we wanted when I was raised. We did appreciate everything though, I have great Christmas memories, even though we did not get alot. I cannot imagine asking my parents for a bag or shoes that costs even hundreds of dollars back then. My father was a steelworker and my mother was a secretary. I have a sibling who became very successful financially but still have those values instilled in them. They raised their kids the way we were raised and they have turned out 10x the people that we are!
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I agree with what you said about raising your family right. Even though my parents both had university degrees and my dad was a founder of two electrical engineering companies, I never had expensive things, and all of the things my family owns is still considerably less than the amount we have saved up in the bank. My parents learned this from their hardworking, immigrant parents who didn't have much but saved for their children's education, which they valued above nearly everything else.

Exactly, Christmas was special because you had wrapping paper with your name on it and you could just laze around all day basically.

I completely agree with the credit card point as well, frankly I'm taking from the credit card companies by always paying off my bills, and they give me cash back. So in a way they lose money having customers like me.
 
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