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If there is an antonym to HumbleDollar it surely must be in the form of a gift my wife just received from her niece. The gift is a bag. It’s a designer thing. From Paris. I googled the bag, and if you are interested you can buy one of your very own for about $4000.
My wife’s bag is actually a knock off, a counterfeit. The niece only paid 50 bucks. I couldn’t figure out how to post a picture, so I will try to describe it.
It’s a bag, it has strap, no zipper, totally open on the top. Picture one of your reusable shopping bags for the grocery store.
Chrissy just looked over my post, and has informed me that it is not a bag. It is a tote. I stand corrected.
I was stuck in Atlanta airport and saw a man with an interesting piece of luggage while on its train. I took a photo of the bag. The bag was alligator-looking with a name embossed, but I could not identify the two words. When I got a chance, I did a search to see if I could make out the words and identify the bag, just for fun. But the embossing was not that clear. I came upon a similar presumably-real-alligator bag that might have been from a company whose name might have matched what was embossed. That bag retailed for $11,999. Who’d buy a bag for that much? I could probably fly around the world three times for that. And even if it was a knock-off, it would be a bag with a much higher probability of being mistaken for an expensive bag and thus more likely to be stolen. (By the way, I used miles for this particular trip.)
The yellow cloth bag I really like is one I received for volunteering. It’s hand made by a very nice lady who loves to sew, and does such a super job with tons of love.
This is something not found in some store. And I also wish I could share a picture.
Hmmmm gotta be a way.
your lead sentence— !!!! perfect hook.
I can’t even get behind luxury cars or phones, let alone luxury apparel. I’ll wear it for a reasonable price, but money and value definitely matter to me. This stuff serves one purpose, which is to broadcast wealth, or some kind of social standing. Just look at the way Americans worship iPhones, and the whole green bubble thing that Apple invented to stigmatize non-iPhone users.
Dunno what the green bubble thing is but I generally see an iPhone and it mainly signals to me “sheep”. But I guess I can only applaud Apple’s success at packaging existing tech into objects that owners believe are superior while trapping them in an entire ecosystem.