How do so many of you pay for that $7,000-13,000 worth of plastic surgery? Green-eyed curiosity
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Every few weeks there is a "Should I get a boob job / tummy tuck / combo thereof operation that will cost many thousand dollars?" thread. Dozens of people reply and announce that spending about $10,000 to lift and fill was the 'best thing I've ever done!!!'
Let me stress I don't begrudge you your surgery; I'm not a plastic hater and actually would consider a tuck if I won it as a door prize. But what I can't figure out is, how do SO many of you spring for what amounts to a cheap Honda, in cash? IN an anonymous forum where people are talking about waxing assholes and, essentially, putting balloons into their bodies to be sexy, I'm crossing fingers that some posters will be candid and reply with their HHI, or financing strategies. Or that they go without? (personally, if we took completely different vacations and put DD in DCPS, well, that would be a pair of boobs for me. But not a tuck). donning flame retardant suit now .... |
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| Our HHI is $250K (more than half of which is my salary), and it was worth it to me to spend $14K on a tummy tuck, lipo and breast augmentation. I'm fortunate to have the means. |
Anonymous
| Yeah, right there with OP. I'm working on losing the baby weight with a boob lift/augment as my goal since they sag to my knees after nursing 2 kids. I'm saving for it like it's a big vacation or a car. I'll probably still need financing though. Too bad you can't layway your new tits. |
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I got my implants when I was 26 and DH and I were making a decent salary ($120K HHI). they were $6K and we took it out of savings. I was having a really hard time with my body image and confidence and it was causing problems in our marriage and sex life.
It definitely didnt improve things overnight, but they helped me feel more balanced (I was an A and an 8/10 on the bottom) and it was worth it to us at the time. I still love them now, but would have much more trouble throwing that kind of money at an elective procedure now that we have kids/mortgage and other expenses. |
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| HHI is just under $1 million. So cost really isn't an issue. We're both lawyers. |
Anonymous
| Why is it that DCUMers are so often surprised that other DCUMers have disposable income? It's talked about here all the time. |
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I'm OP. It's not that I'm surprised, because quite candidly our HHI is in the top percentiles nationwide (though we don't approach the 1% for DC, which I think I saw was about $600,000?)
It more that I can't figure out how to make it work. I think it's because we have different priorities, as they say. I would love to have a tuck AND the awesome school DD attends. and and and. What can I say? Maybe I need to become a white collar crime partner. |
Anonymous
| I think many on here can have their tuck AND send their kids to that awesome school, not necessarily about priorities. |
Anonymous
| Our HHI is $200k so we're not DC high-earners by any stetch. But even after saving for retirement, it wouldn't be too hard to sock away an extra $7k for new boobs (probably b/c we live in a small $400k rowhouse and do in-home daycare). We almost just spent $7k re-doing our back patio, but then decided against it. So when I saw that implants were around $7k, I did think "hmm." |
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We also make around $250K and I wouldn't have any problem finding $7K for implants in our budget if I really wanted them. Anyone with an income of over $200K is going to have some degree of disposable income. It's just about what you choose to spend it on.
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Anonymous
We have no mortgage. Our children go to public school. I drive a 3 year old Honda and DH drives a Prius. We have no problems affording cosmetic surgery. |
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scum of the earth |
Anonymous
Jealousy is so unbecoming. |
Anonymous
| Don't be haters.... |
Anonymous
Parasitic worms |