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In reply to the discussion: I love handbags [View all]lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)My philosophy toward spending money is exemplified by the book "your money or your life".
Understand how much you are selling the hours of your life for (you're not renting those hours, you are selling them), be aware of how many of those hours are spending with each choice, and be sure that those choices are in alignment with your values.
If a person buys $35,000 (or even $350) purse entirely because "There is no fucking way I'd be caught dead with a Target bag" without knowing how many hours of your life they sold to pay for it... suffice to say, I don't hold neither their thinking skills nor their values in high regard.
They invented the phrase "white girls problems" to describe exactly this OP.
My solution to the "Target? Yuck!" problem is to steal the price tag from the fancy purse and attach it to the affordable one so that your family need not bear the shame.