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SusanofO -> RE: Ok ladies....purses$$$$$ (and other designer things) (12/6/2006 3:12:17 AM)
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I like items of clothing and accessories "look good" (on me) and which I think have some "style".
In my twenties, I cared a little bit about that kind of thing (the label-status "thing"). I'll never forget the time I bought a $200 pair of white, snake-skin pumps at Saks Fifth Avenue, when (was about 28 years old), and I walked outside wearing them (I was so excited about them I wore them out of the store). It was raining outside. Within a half hour, the shoes had been completely ruined by the water and mud (snake-skin is very fragile and delicate) - and it just made me feel like I'd tossed $200 down a sewer, or something.
Now I am in my forties, and I donate a lot more money to charity than I used to do. Spending $250 on a purse, for instance, when I have three adopted foster kids in Ethiopia through the World Vision Organization that can hardly afford to plant seeds to grow food, seems almost criminal to me, at times.
I don't mean I never spend money on myself, but it's usually for something I've thought a lot about (I have spent money renovating my house, but that's only because I want to make a profit when I sell it and it needed rehab - it was a practical decision). I don't do a lot of impulsive shopping anymore. I've got tons of clothes (from discount stores) but seem to spend most of my time in the same skirt or jeans and tops, and probably only really need about 10% of what I've got in my closet. Hope that doesn't sound "preachy" (it's not meant to be). That stuff just isn't the "thrill" it once was (if ever it was) for me. If I'd spend money on anything for me, I think it's travel more than anything else.
My sister (the attorney) has a name for clients that spend their money on things like Mercedes and $1,000 jeans. She calls them "stupid rich people". She seems to sometimes seek them out as clients, because she thinks they have no idea (some of them) where their money goes, and some don't seem to care where it goes, she says.
I know there are wealthy people who are not like this, and some donate tons of money to good causes and also have good judgment (that's how some of them got to be wealthy- they worked hard for it, some of them), but - she apparently thinks some of them can be really dense. She sometimes say to me: "Know any stupid rich people who need a good lawyer? Send some my way..." Ha!
- Susan
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