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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Golden Goose epitomizes to me the psychology that we had a thread on last month... that is, why some people aspire to spend their money on things solely because others have them and they are expensive, and don't take pleasure in finding something new/different/flattering/cool/on the cusp of being cool and making it their own.

Like the OP of that thread, I do not understand that psychology.  When you buy the GG, let's assume someone compliments them (which i'm not sure anyone would do at this point because they're so ubiquitous) and the "high" you get from that compliment is because someone recognized that either (i) you (or more typically, your DH - because these kind of signifiers are for the sahm set) makes decent money; or (ii) you run in circles of certain types of people so that you knew these were trendy.  But the compliment isn't about the shoe. It's feedback to you about how the shoe reflects your lifestyle.

Versus if you spent comparable money on some other lesser known shoe and someone compliments it, that means you sought out something that something thinks is pretty, or makes you look good, or otherwise they genuinely like.  So that's a compliment of the actual shoe itself, and specifically feedback that you have good taste. So it's a compliment about YOU.

But i've been that way since highschool. If there was some trend that everyone was buying, I would actively eschew it lest I looked like everyone else. I wanted compliments for having my own look. But that's my own psychology![/quote]

There is some truth to this, but isn't also just possible that people who buy these are exposed to them from their friends or social media or whatever, actually them like how they look, and buy them because they can in fact afford them?  Not everyone cares about being unique or wants to spend their time seeking out things that are pretty but that no one else has. I personally think they are ugly and would not spend my money on them, but I have certainly bought other trendy, overpriced things because (gasp!) I LIKED them. So I guess I'm just basic in that way.[/quote]

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