Mind=blown at women's materialism

Nah, I get low-end clothing. A lot from charity shops. Some hand-me-downs. I quite literally wear my clothes until they fall apart too.

Not if you look in the right places at the right times.

Good on you for having so much money!

More money for other stuff

Like books and gadgets

What is 'good quality' to you? Are you sure you aren't defining 'quality' to be 'costs more than x', rather than any practical measure? Its too easy to believe that something is better quality because it costs more. Often it isn't true. Just look at Crapple.

Why waste it on getting infinitesimally better quality clothes (£1000 for a coat? Seriously?) when you could invest it ways that give you more returns?

Status symbol? Ordinary people are going to either be jealous or think she's a muppet, wealthy people are going to think she's spending pennies and she should have spent more.

It's like spending your last 10k on a rolex, it's not a badass expression of wealth, it shows you're a loser.

who said 'last 10k' though, i said it wasn't a good way to spend her money as she clearly cannot comfortable afford such items

Some good points; I guess you aren't a student then. Do you not have a partner or family? If you did, you could almost certainly find better ways of spending the money, unless you have a ridiculously large income.

It was an example, it's hard to say her Gucci bag is a status symbol if it took her years to save up for. It's only a status symbol if she is on that level of material wealth

20k? Do you not own your own house then? I'm just confused how owning a slightly better coat is worth sacrificing the stability that house ownership gives you. Call me frugal, but even if I had a 100k income, I'd probably still live pretty much the same as I would on a 20k income, at least until I had the basics covered (house, family etc.)

How about if it was a guy saving up for a flashy, expensive new car?

I agree that it's sad how materialistic some people are, but don't get how it's a gendered thing? I think people maybe see stereotypically girly luxuries as more stupid/frivolous than the stereotypically masculine equivalents, when they're actually pretty much on the same level.

Before anyone asks, I have no evidence to back this up lol it's just the impression I get sometimes ☺️

women buying handbags aren't genuinely related to the way men treat women, it's sad that you think that.

What, isn't 1 a large enough sample size?

Was just on the phone with my gf and she told me she has saved up £4k for like the past 10 years (money from birthdays, allowance from parents etc) just to save up to buy a Chanel handbag.

And her friends are the same - they all go gaga over designer handbags, clothes, shoes etc (they're obsessed with Dior, LV, Chanel, Prada etc)

Plus on the commute every day to work, I always see a different woman with an LV handbag. Why do women fixate on luxury items like this?

idk maybe cause her handbag won't leave her for a younger, hotter woman?

I don't, where did you get that from lol? Maybe you should have read the separate issue I was dealing with, the whole men looking at other women problem.
Take a little more time to read what I was talking about next time

I've seen that happen. Some of them have malicious wills of their own, like the one ring.

If its got nothing to do with making an impression, why would you spend 3k on it? Just curious - its not as though they are of spectacularly good quality relative to other bags