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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are people jumping all over the "unintentional." Every purchase in life is intentional -- you had the free will to buy it or not. I'm guessing the OP wanted to just talk about status symbols -- someone buys a North Face bc they want a fleece and look turns out they're wearing what someone else considers a status symbol.[/quote]

No one accidentally buys a NorthFace without caring, on some level, that it has a visible NorthFace logo. Don't be dense. If NorthFace is not an intentional, purposeful statement of status, I don't know what is.[/quote]

Put another way, anything with an obvious visible logo, denoting the item as expensive (overpriced) is intentional.

I think of unintentional as things wealthy people do, for their own pleasure/enjoyment/whatever, that they do NOT do to display their wealth, but somehow inadvertently, indirectly displays their wealth.

I think the best examples were ironmans and SAHMs (where the family is not living frugally.)

It's pretty hard to think of examples because most wealthy people either shout it from the rooftops, or don't want anyone to know. Not much in between.[/quote]

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