My teen asked for a Supreme backpack

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid asked for one. I looked at the website with him and made some non-committal noises. He never mentioned it again.

As long as you're not sending your kid to school with the LL Bean backpack you got him in 3rd grade, I'm sure he's fine. Maybe get it for a birthday or holiday if it's too much for a regular back to school cost.

Lol. My HS senior still has the same backpack from 7th grade!

[Anonymous]

At least you don't have a girl asking for a freaking neverfull as her schoolbag ugh!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid asked for one. I looked at the website with him and made some non-committal noises. He never mentioned it again.

As long as you're not sending your kid to school with the LL Bean backpack you got him in 3rd grade, I'm sure he's fine. Maybe get it for a birthday or holiday if it's too much for a regular back to school cost.

Lol. My HS senior still has the same backpack from 7th grade!

My 8th grader still has his black LL Bean backpack from 3rd grade. Didn't realize that was a problem!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid asked for one. I looked at the website with him and made some non-committal noises. He never mentioned it again.

As long as you're not sending your kid to school with the LL Bean backpack you got him in 3rd grade, I'm sure he's fine. Maybe get it for a birthday or holiday if it's too much for a regular back to school cost.

Lol. My HS senior still has the same backpack from 7th grade!

My 8th grader still has his black LL Bean backpack from 3rd grade. Didn't realize that was a problem!

Those LLBean bags are great! I used mine through college

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid asked for one. I looked at the website with him and made some non-committal noises. He never mentioned it again.

As long as you're not sending your kid to school with the LL Bean backpack you got him in 3rd grade, I'm sure he's fine. Maybe get it for a birthday or holiday if it's too much for a regular back to school cost.

Lol. My HS senior still has the same backpack from 7th grade!

My 8th grader still has his black LL Bean backpack from 3rd grade. Didn't realize that was a problem!

Phew. My sophomore has an LL Bean backpack from a few years ago. I find it hard to believe that the majority of HS boys really care about the brand/style of their backpack. Not the kids I know anyway.

[Anonymous]

For that price, it should be bullet proof.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What are some "coolish" backpacks for teens that can hold a lot of stuff? That don't cost as much as the Supreme one? Please help - unfortunately for us the birthday falls at the same time as back to school. But I can't swallow the price of the Supreme backpack! It also does not look like it would hold that many binders.

My teenagers like Herschel. Bonus point - they make good on their warranty. When a zipper broke, they replaced the bag quickly and with minimal hassle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid asked for one. I looked at the website with him and made some non-committal noises. He never mentioned it again.

As long as you're not sending your kid to school with the LL Bean backpack you got him in 3rd grade, I'm sure he's fine. Maybe get it for a birthday or holiday if it's too much for a regular back to school cost.

Lol. My HS senior still has the same backpack from 7th grade!

My 8th grader still has his black LL Bean backpack from 3rd grade. Didn't realize that was a problem!

Phew. My sophomore has an LL Bean backpack from a few years ago. I find it hard to believe that the majority of HS boys really care about the brand/style of their backpack. Not the kids I know anyway.

I am the poster who wrote about Herschel brand, but when the going gets tough, my senior switches to her old Jansport. She claims it’s the most comfortable bag when you have to carry lots of heavy stuff.

[Anonymous]

My son has one. Bought it with his umping money. No way was I buying that!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For that price, it should be bullet proof.

Good point. Is it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:$150 is reasonable for a backpack, no?

No

Hell, no!

[Anonymous]

My nerdy senior is an ll bean. My cooler freshman has Herschel. Both are satisfied.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Lemmings. Cool kids don’t follow that stupid trend.

Of course they do. The pricey shit is the barrier to entry to the popular crowd, silly.

It's really not. My brother was legendary in MS and HS. Senior girls used to give me a ride to school in HS because they wanted to date my Sophomore brother. He was good-looking and a super athlete. He also did not follow stupid trends or ask my parents for expensive items to fit in. My dad was VERY BIG on, be a leader not a follower. We all picked up on that quickly and to this day I will not wear things once they become overly popular. If every bus stop mom is strutting around in a Canadian Goose (formerly North Face) it's the last thing I want to be seen in.

I realized my kids turned out the same way and they are very popular. In fact, they often set the trends. My 8th grader saw some independent store with a cool logo on vacation and wanted to buy it because everyone else wore Vineyard Vines----guess what? Everyone wanted to know where he got it.

My kids know I will never spend $300 on sneakers or $400 or even $150 on a backpack even though we are very well-off. We do teach value of things.

Kids that need a ton of exterior stuff and need to follow what everyone else is doing often are surprised the way things turn out. It's exhausting being a striver.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid asked for one. I looked at the website with him and made some non-committal noises. He never mentioned it again.

As long as you're not sending your kid to school with the LL Bean backpack you got him in 3rd grade, I'm sure he's fine. Maybe get it for a birthday or holiday if it's too much for a regular back to school cost.

Lol. My HS senior still has the same backpack from 7th grade!

Ha. And my son does have the same Under Armour backpack from 4th or 5th grade--can't remember.

He does not suffer from unpopularity, quite the contrary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lemmings. Cool kids don’t follow that stupid trend.

Of course they do. The pricey shit is the barrier to entry to the popular crowd, silly.

It's really not. My brother was legendary in MS and HS. Senior girls used to give me a ride to school in HS because they wanted to date my Sophomore brother. He was good-looking and a super athlete. He also did not follow stupid trends or ask my parents for expensive items to fit in. My dad was VERY BIG on, be a leader not a follower. We all picked up on that quickly and to this day I will not wear things once they become overly popular. If every bus stop mom is strutting around in a Canadian Goose (formerly North Face) it's the last thing I want to be seen in.

I realized my kids turned out the same way and they are very popular. In fact, they often set the trends. My 8th grader saw some independent store with a cool logo on vacation and wanted to buy it because everyone else wore Vineyard Vines----guess what? Everyone wanted to know where he got it.

My kids know I will never spend $300 on sneakers or $400 or even $150 on a backpack even though we are very well-off. We do teach value of things.

Kids that need a ton of exterior stuff and need to follow what everyone else is doing often are surprised the way things turn out. It's exhausting being a striver.

Nice essay.