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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think it's necessarily true to say that rich people spend *less* on Christmas (a trip to the Caribbean or skiing or whatever is $$$$) but I DO think it's accurate to say that they spend *differently* on Christmas than LMC people -- with LMC there seems to be a big emphasis on STUFF and having lots of THINGS (read: plastic toys) to put under the tree for the kids to open; whereas with UMC/UC it's more about high quality things and experiences.

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Of course, if you have more money, you can afford to buy "high quality things" and if you don't, you can't. That's simply stating the obvious.

I already posted, but it seems like the LMC and under kids have it a lot better at Christmas than wealthy kids -- they're excited to get the pile of "STUFF" that wealthy adults look down on and wealthy kids are "over." I'm glad they get to enjoy that. It's also fun to give to charities that help kids have "STUFF" and lots of "THINGS." But this is a DCUM bubble only -- based on TV shows and ads and comments from wealthy people on talk shows, I don't think giving kids piles of "STUFF" and "THINGS" is going to end any time soon. That joy seems universal despite what some overwrought intellectuals on DCUM may think.

I read Hillbilly Elegy and although I liked it, I thought the author was desperate to interpret every single thing in his life as directly stemming from his class and Appalachian roots when most of it was just plain standard-issue life. (His grandmother threatening a toy store clerk after he commented that her kid shouldn't be playing with a toy in the store -- now THAT probably had a lot to do with his background. Overspending to please kids at Christmas? Seems about right for a lot of people.)[/quote]

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