gratefull said:
I feel you too in a big way!!! I have some ideas of my own....will write more later, can't at this moment
BTW there was a thread that helped me called Big Ban Buddy Club I think. that was before the thread called "I am on a ban who else is in"
Also, the Curbing Consumerism thread in the Money Forum is very awesome.
There is a lot more to say about all this, I will write you back later.
There are tons of things that can be said about this. Some has already been said, but it skims the surface. Love to be stylish, chic if you will. Believe that trendy is okay if minimal, but classic is everlasting and makes an enduring statement, without attempting to make any statement at all. But, I have always been of the mindset that it is unfair for many designers to put such a large price tag on their wares, when in effect, it costs them a minimal amount to produce. Being well aware of commerce, I know very well, it's not just the love of what they do that drives them, but the necessity to see a financial return for their ideas, endeavors, product, etc. it is the same all over, regardless of what the item is, cars, appliances, eyeglasses, cosmetics. It is commercialism, among other things, at it's best. Bottom line, they put it out there, not just so we can look stylish, but so they can 'get paid'.
Don't get me confused with the everyday corner store shopper, because I am a corner store shopper, but if I choose, I want to look the way I want to look doing it. So I purchase LV,
Gucci, etc. but I have no problem wearing a good leather bag with an unknown person named on the tag, with a T-shirt and a pair of cargo pants with my hair rush combed. It has never nor shall it ever matter to me what others think of the labels or lack there of that I may or may not possess.
Right now I am going through an LV phase, and I don't mind because I know it's just that, a phase. Won't go as far as saying I'll ban myself. Just a matter of self-control. We need that in everyday life regardless of who and where we are in our lives.
