Beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder. I could be hyper-sensitive to all the commercials of the 'must have's' that are continually pounded into peoples heads, as l scale my life down to what l can pack into my van.
This morning on Good Morning America, while l was eating my breakfast at the Comfort Inn in Marshfield l could barely contain my shock that they were doing a feature story on nail polish that cost $5,000. a bottle, it contained actual GOLD in it. No that price is not a typo, $60. per nail, each time.
Who would even think of spending money on this? That is a $720 manicure. WHAT??? Seriously?? And l to even consider this news-worthy???
Then today on one of my appointments l was in a bike shop. Not the motorized ones, but the peddle your ass off kind. There were many for $1,000 and $2,000, l also saw one for $3,300. That's almost as much as l paid for my van. Okay, l could see if you were a professional bicycle rider, but the average Joe?
If just seems so....collapsible, this crazy mentality for excess. As l said earlier, it's probably that l am just hypersensitive to it since l am running in the opposite direction. Things that make you go......hmmmmmm.
Like beauty being in the eye of the beholder, excess is not based on dollars but rather on affordability. If your income is three thousand dollars an hour $720.00 manicure is relatively cheap, and the 3 thousand dollar bike is also cheap at the equivalent of an hour's income.
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Mickey
Mick, yes l would agree with you to an extent.....some of it just seems so crazy though.
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