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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unless I am going to a special event, I don't wear my jewelry partly for safety and partly out of solidarity. I grew up poor just a few blocks from my current ultra-gentrified address. Mere steps away yet an entire world apart. I cannot bring myself to walk around here wearing jewelry valued more than the household income of some of my neighbors. I think it would make me look like an asshole. Safety is still a concern around here so I don't take unnecessary chances but respect for my less privileged neighbors is the main reason. [/quote]

That's weird. If you are so guilt-ridden by the trappings of your new found wealth, why have such ostentatious jewelry at all? Why wear jewelry that you say makes you look like an asshole to the poor folks.   I'm sure the unwashed in your old neighborhood are grateful for your solidarity. [b]Personally, I think buying jewelry valued more than anyone's household income is tacky.[/b] And I'm not even poor!

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NP. By that logic, you would own no jewelry that you yourself purchased, because there are people who are unemployed and thus have a household income of 0. Buying things you can afford is generally not tacky, flaunting said things in certain circumstances definitely can be. [/quote]

Do you really think the poster was talking about costume jewelry? Clearly she was not talking about jewelry that is not expensive. Spending outrageous amounts of money on showy jewelry is pretty much always low class and nouveau riche. [/quote]

You sound jealous. And low class because apparently you are unaware that jewelry can be both expensive and tasteful in appropriate settings. I don't blame you since you've probably never met any actual upper class people with good jewelry just the gigantic poor quality tacky jewelry from your low class world. Sorry but class can't be taught, especially not over the internet. [/quote]

LOL. I can afford anything I like. Spending more on a bauble than the GDP of a developing country is never in good taste. Sorry. [/quote]

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