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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would just think it’s kind of gross b/c I am not into material consumption. And I don’t just mean designer stuff. I would feel similarly if someone showed up drowning in Walmart jewelry.

We as humans grossly overestimate the amount of goods we need and are killing the environment. I guess at least the designer stuff with hopefully last longer and be handed down unlike the cheap made in China crap so it’s somewhat better. But I also think rich people buying all this crap trickles down to people with less money trying to emulate it. I just sort of hate it all. I wish we valued other things.

But she is just one person so I wouldn’t lay the entire societal consumerism issue on her. She is a product of this society.[/quote]

Lmao this is so weird. What do you consider “drowning” in jewelry? [/quote]

Sorry, I meant “dripping.” I was using OP’s word.

Go watch the Buy Now documentary on Netflix and you will see why so many of us feel this way.

And before you accuse me of being a hypocrite or something I’ll mention that I live in a smaller home with one car, frequently gift and receive things through Buy Nothing, buy clothes from Poshmark and Marketplace (and when I do buy new I’ll buy 1-2 nice items a season instead of 10), I don’t have any collections or mass produced tchotchkes, I try to buy bamboo products over plastic where I can (e.g. bamboo dish scrubbers), buy refurbished technology, etc. I’m not perfect, but I put more thought into my purchases than “I want this and can afford it and I like it.” Also, I am 38 and still have clothes I can fit into from college because I try to take care of my things.

The human need to constantly acquire new things from companies that have no end of life plan for their product is going to destroy our planet. So no I’m not impressed by someone with 10 designer purses or 10 Walmart purses or whatever.

But I also know this issue is mostly the fault of capitalistic companies primed to sell more, more, more (they don’t want their products to last you forever because they want you to keep consuming more for their profits). The consumers are just a product of a system constantly making them think they need the newest XYZ. Once you recognize what is going on it makes you look at everything differently.[/quote]

Ok but like…you can’t look at someone and know how much jewelry they actually own. Maybe the woman you see wearing a bracelet stack or whatever only owns those bracelets she is wearing. It just seems like a weird hill to die on. [/quote]

I was going off OP’s description that this person is “dripping” and “decked out” in numerous items on multiple occasions. This isn’t a one off seeing someone on the street with some bracelets. So my answer was specific to the scenario OP described. [/quote]

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