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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not remotely consumerist -- more anti than anything. When I buy anything, I try to buy vintage, pre-owned, open-box, all the stuff minimizes impact.

But I've grown to have real empathy for many of the kinds of people OP describes. I've observed that they often seem to be trying to give to children (theirs, but also often others, sometimes including mine) something that they themselves didn't get as a child. As soon as I realized this — that this is just another way of trying to do the right thing, and to heal what ails -- I softened quite a bit. [/quote]

You sound like a very kind person, pp! [/quote]

I was raised in a really abusive home and I have older kids but in my day I loved hanging the flag with the school bus in September and the Winnie the Pooh Halloween flag, the one for summer etc. It was indeed profoundly healing for me. I was never celebrated as a child and I loved every minute of celebrating my kids in this way. And yes I adored Boo Baskets or whatever it is they are called.

I have a friend who goes insane for crazy hair day and all those dress up days at school. She had one child after nine years of infertility, they nearly got divorced over it and for her, crazy hair day is something that really makes her happy. [b]You literally never know what people are carrying. [/quote][/b]

So true. [/quote]

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