Expensive items and teens

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Anonymous wrote:My kids wear cheap items from Gap; however, I purchased a 20K acoustic guitar for my 12 years old son and 120K violin for my 14 years old daughter.

The Gap is expensive for us.

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Anonymous wrote:My kids wear cheap items from Gap; however, I purchased a 20K acoustic guitar for my 12 years old son and 120K violin for my 14 years old daughter.

The Gap is expensive for us.

Same. Unless it’s one of their many, many 50% off sales and even then I’m very, very conservative with what I buy.

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Anonymous wrote:My kids wear cheap items from Gap; however, I purchased a 20K acoustic guitar for my 12 years old son and 120K violin for my 14 years old daughter.

The Gap is expensive for us.

My kids would never shop at the Gap. I get a few long term pieces there and that is it.

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Anonymous wrote:Golden goose sneakers are ugly af. They look like sketchers or something you would find at Justice.

I have never seen a kid in public school wear them. Most be a private school thing

Same. Air Jordan's are the most expensive sneaker I have seen a kid wear.

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Anonymous wrote:Nope, not even as gifts if it's that expensive. Not at this age.

My kids lose things or they will outgrow it in a year. That's a throwaway item.

I don't even buy myself expensive shoes or clothing.

I save a lot for their college. Now, that's an investment.
Thank goodness we don't live in this type of area.

I agree with this. I just bought my 17-year-old a Stance hoodie/sweatpant set. It was $185. That's a splurge as a gift. No way I'm spending the prices of any of the brands you posted, not at 14 or 17. I wouldn't even buy my kid the $150 Yeezy slides he wanted (even though I could afford them); he saved up his own money and bought them.

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I have a social 17 year old in private school and she never, ever asks for things this expensive. Maybe it’s the particular school or social set?

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Anonymous wrote:I have a social 17 year old in private school and she never, ever asks for things this expensive. Maybe it’s the particular school or social set?

Same here. My kids (16 and 17) are at Big3 schools and they and their friends so not wear this stuff. My kids have never even asked and they are reasonably popular kids.
Also, they had summer jobs t this year (which means they now have some degree of some financial freedom) so if they did want something, they would be free to buy it without me even getting involved.

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Don't have kids but we took our niece and nephew on a shopping spree to independent boutiques in Paris, and even with airfare and hotel, I think we paid less than the prices I am seeing for brands listed by the OP! Crazy.

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Hell no! Seems tacky and stupid to spend so much on something they’ll grow out of or be out of trend in a year.

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Anonymous wrote:My kids wear cheap items from Gap; however, I purchased a 20K acoustic guitar for my 12 years old son and 120K violin for my 14 years old daughter.

Well that was dumb

How so?

DP. Unless your kid is like a musical savant, and will be joining a prestigious orchestra/band and making a career out of it, why the F* would you buy them a 20K guitar and 120K violin? That is genuinely stupid.

-guitar player

I have three vintage guitars and each cost around 45K. I also have a 200K fazioli grand piano and I am not a professional musician. I don't have to be a professional musician to enjoy expensive instruments. It is like saying since I am not a professional golfer, I should not be a member at Congressional CC. That's just dumb.

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Anonymous wrote:My kids wear cheap items from Gap; however, I purchased a 20K acoustic guitar for my 12 years old son and 120K violin for my 14 years old daughter.

Well that was dumb

How so?

DP. Unless your kid is like a musical savant, and will be joining a prestigious orchestra/band and making a career out of it, why the F* would you buy them a 20K guitar and 120K violin? That is genuinely stupid.

-guitar player

Most adult professional orchestra musicians don’t have instruments this expensive. Pretty sure Elvis, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Eddie Van Halen, etc. weren’t playing on a $20,000 guitar at 12- or maybe ever

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I just looked up what Golden Goose sneakers are and what they cost. Absolutely no way can that be justified in my opinion. They're just leather Chucks but they cost almost 10X as much. They aren't going to last 10X as long.

Fixed that for you. Also, GG are not just leather Chucks, but since you have never tried them on you would not know.

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Anonymous wrote:My kids wear cheap items from Gap; however, I purchased a 20K acoustic guitar for my 12 years old son and 120K violin for my 14 years old daughter.

Well that was dumb

How so?

DP. Unless your kid is like a musical savant, and will be joining a prestigious orchestra/band and making a career out of it, why the F* would you buy them a 20K guitar and 120K violin? That is genuinely stupid.

-guitar player

Most adult professional orchestra musicians don’t have instruments this expensive. Pretty sure Elvis, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Eddie Van Halen, etc. weren’t playing on a $20,000 guitar at 12- or maybe ever

Vintage guitars and violins go up in value overtime. I have about a temperature controlled room with over vintage guitars that I purchased many years ago. Almost all of them are worth at least 25K each. I paid around 1K for them many years ago. One guy wanted to pay me 48K for a 1942 Martin guitar and I turned him down.

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Anonymous wrote:My kids wear cheap items from Gap; however, I purchased a 20K acoustic guitar for my 12 years old son and 120K violin for my 14 years old daughter.

Well that was dumb

How so?

DP. Unless your kid is like a musical savant, and will be joining a prestigious orchestra/band and making a career out of it, why the F* would you buy them a 20K guitar and 120K violin? That is genuinely stupid.

-guitar player

Most adult professional orchestra musicians don’t have instruments this expensive. Pretty sure Elvis, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Eddie Van Halen, etc. weren’t playing on a $20,000 guitar at 12- or maybe ever

Vintage guitars and violins go up in value overtime. I have about a temperature controlled room with over vintage guitars that I purchased many years ago. Almost all of them are worth at least 25K each. I paid around 1K for them many years ago. One guy wanted to pay me 48K for a 1942 Martin guitar and I turned him down.

Ok, you are an adult niche collector. You think it is within the realm of reasonable to get a 20k guitar for a 12 yr old?