Son's rich friends (GDS) are wearing $1000 jeans, now he wants a couple pairs too

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Anonymous wrote:If having these jeans are important to your child, their purchase is something you can afford (as a middle class family can buy $100 jeans), and reflect your family values.... get them.

I do not find them attractive nor could afford them. But I am over 40 middle class government worker and the former peace corps type. I understand that other people have different needs and priorities. As well as ability to fulfill them.

You are missing a "0"

1000, not 100.

As in 1 grand

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Anonymous wrote:If we had the kind of money that $1000 was a drop in the bucket, and my ds asked me to spend $1000 on a pair of jeans for him, I would reevaluate everything about my life and the example I have set for him.

This exactly. It's just wrong on so many levels.

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Anonymous wrote:https://mikeamiri.com/products/shotgun-tee-grey-1

Honestly, this must be a joke. "Individually shotgunned in the California desert."

Cannot....stop.....laughing......

Frankly. I am trying to visualize how this occurs. Someone with a gun on a hot day shoots BBs at t shirts and jeans? One at a time?

To be truly a hand-crafted, artisinal, bullet hole-riddled t-shirt, then yes.

As I parent. I'd buy my kid $1,000 of white high quality t shirts and a BB gun, then have him create a cottage business around urban fashion to buy his own jeans

I'd even let him charge me to "help" shoot after a long hat day at work.

this, plus you could branch out into jeans. source a run of denim from asia do this, then charge a 300% markup.

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totally insane.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If having these jeans are important to your child, their purchase is something you can afford (as a middle class family can buy $100 jeans), and reflect your family values.... get them.

I do not find them attractive nor could afford them. But I am over 40 middle class government worker and the former peace corps type. I understand that other people have different needs and priorities. As well as ability to fulfill them.

You are missing a "0"

1000, not 100.

As in 1 grand

No. Middle class can buy hundred dollar jeans without killing budget. Wealthy family can buy thousand dollar jeans for a smaller portion of family's budget. I am middle class and non materialistic so hundred dollar jeans would be what I'd buy for my kid without much question

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://mikeamiri.com/products/shotgun-tee-grey-1

Honestly, this must be a joke. "Individually shotgunned in the California desert."

Cannot....stop.....laughing......

Frankly. I am trying to visualize how this occurs. Someone with a gun on a hot day shoots BBs at t shirts and jeans? One at a time?

To be truly a hand-crafted, artisinal, bullet hole-riddled t-shirt, then yes.

As I parent. I'd buy my kid $1,000 of white high quality t shirts and a BB gun, then have him create a cottage business around urban fashion to buy his own jeans

I'd even let him charge me to "help" shoot after a long hat day at work.

you could give jobs to the thugs in southeast....'individually shotgunned in the mean streets EOTP'

Not exotic enough.

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I'd say what Bill Cosby would say, "I don't have a $1,000 pair of jeans and I have a job".....

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Anonymous wrote:If having these jeans are important to your child, their purchase is something you can afford (as a middle class family can buy $100 jeans), and reflect your family values.... get them.

I do not find them attractive nor could afford them. But I am over 40 middle class government worker and the former peace corps type. I understand that other people have different needs and priorities. As well as ability to fulfill them.

You are missing a "0"

1000, not 100.

As in 1 grand

No. Middle class can buy hundred dollar jeans without killing budget. Wealthy family can buy thousand dollar jeans for a smaller portion of family's budget. I am middle class and non materialistic so hundred dollar jeans would be what I'd buy for my kid without much question

This is not about CAN, but about SHOULD. Our HHI is over $1M and I still buy my jeans from Nordstrom Rack or the sale section of Anthropologie. I have never spent more than $100 on a pair of jeans because I can't justify the expense. I think being somewhat frugal is a virtue.

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Well, if they are good enough for Kim K...

http://m.tmz.com/#article/2017/01/04/kim-kardashian-lunch-hotel-bel-air/

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If having these jeans are important to your child, their purchase is something you can afford (as a middle class family can buy $100 jeans), and reflect your family values.... get them.

I do not find them attractive nor could afford them. But I am over 40 middle class government worker and the former peace corps type. I understand that other people have different needs and priorities. As well as ability to fulfill them.

You are missing a "0"

1000, not 100.

As in 1 grand

No. Middle class can buy hundred dollar jeans without killing budget. Wealthy family can buy thousand dollar jeans for a smaller portion of family's budget. I am middle class and non materialistic so hundred dollar jeans would be what I'd buy for my kid without much question

This is not about CAN, but about SHOULD. Our HHI is over $1M and I still buy my jeans from Nordstrom Rack or the sale section of Anthropologie. I have never spent more than $100 on a pair of jeans because I can't justify the expense. I think being somewhat frugal is a virtue.

Exactly.

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My first car only cost $1100. $1000 for jeans? I don't get how this is a thing.

[Anonymous]

I'd give him a budget (personally I wouldn't go over $200 for a pair of jeans). If he wants to spend more than that then he can save up for them.

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So happy my son only wears Levis

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'd give him a budget (personally I wouldn't go over $200 for a pair of jeans). If he wants to spend more than that then he can save up for them.

and the reasons why:
- you don't automatically get everything you want right away
- you can work/save to get something you really want
- you can deal with not having everything your friends have (if you don't get them)

all good life lessons

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Anonymous wrote:If having these jeans are important to your child, their purchase is something you can afford (as a middle class family can buy $100 jeans), and reflect your family values.... get them.

I do not find them attractive nor could afford them. But I am over 40 middle class government worker and the former peace corps type. I understand that other people have different needs and priorities. As well as ability to fulfill them.

You are missing a "0"

1000, not 100.

As in 1 grand

No. Middle class can buy hundred dollar jeans without killing budget. Wealthy family can buy thousand dollar jeans for a smaller portion of family's budget. I am middle class and non materialistic so hundred dollar jeans would be what I'd buy for my kid without much question

This is not about CAN, but about SHOULD. Our HHI is over $1M and I still buy my jeans from Nordstrom Rack or the sale section of Anthropologie. I have never spent more than $100 on a pair of jeans because I can't justify the expense. I think being somewhat frugal is a virtue.

Totally agree.

As the old expression goes "Money talks but wealth whispers".