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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We always got new backpacks as kids.  They were generally pretty beaten up by the end of the year.  Buying a new one was part of the fun of back to school.  And you're all acting all high and mighty about throwing out a backpack every year, but come on -- the demographic on this forum buys more useless shit, throws the most opulent parties with so much junk that gets throw out daily.... a backpack every year is nothing relative to all the junk you are all producing.

That said, my son has been using the same backpack for 3 years of preschool.  It is in horrible shape right now so we'll be buying a new one for K, and I look forward to new ones in future years![/quote]

Exactly. Some of you are FoS. Like... "Oh, you buy you kid a new bookbag very year?! Oh, the horror". Cut the crap. I agree with PP- its part of the fun of back to school. [/quote]

This.  People on this site buy so much conspicuous consumption stuff for their kids so long as it equates with wealth.  Like, full wardrobes of cute clothes, expensive and totally unnecessary baby gear and about a million other useless things.  The only reason they are getting high and mighty about backpacks is because poor kids are known to get new, cheap character bags every year.  The anti-new-bag sentiment on here has nothing to do with wastefulness and everything to do with turning up your nose at the poor. [/quote]

Young kids like character backpacks.  Mine likes his character - Toys R Us has a backpack deal where you get a free lunch box so a backpack and lunch box of his choice was under $20 - its lasted two years and we could get another (it is fabric, not plastic).  We have a nice Adidas one but it was way to big.  This year he may use that one.  Its not about being poor or wasteful.  People do the expensive ones for status.  I don't let mine wear their expensive stuff to school as it gets ruined.    Mine has a North Face coat, but he wears his Kmart one to school and his North Face not in school.  I got it for $20 - not everything is also as it seems.[/quote]

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