How 'bout them apples?

re: How 'bout them apples?

Mrs. Accountability — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:04:49 GMT

Wow, $18 *plus* shipping for two apples. Craziness! Great article!

re: How 'bout them apples?

Moneymonk.net — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:35:47 GMT

With a good budget, you may can deserve things without giving up a whole lot.

Balancing your income, you have have your apples and eat it too

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re: How 'bout them apples?

opal-surfcitybaptist — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:57:51 GMT

Ka-ching! Buy "them apples" and help add another foot of fencing around the Walton's compound!

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Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:08:44 GMT

this is the problem between my husband and me. I see the $18 and laugh then buy the ingredients to make it myself. My husband thinks "if the neighbors buy it, I need to buy it". We actually got into a screaming fight about how I dress our kids. we have several nice thrift stores in town and I only buy the kids clothes from there (minus underoos) and he thinks that its disgusting to wear other peoples clothing.

his parents - finled for BK 2 times, foreclosed on a house, several car repos.

my parents - own their house and several homes OUTRIGHT, paid cash for their last two cars,

my mother way a stay at home mom, and amy parents made half of what his parents made.

he just doesn't see the difference

re: How 'bout them apples?

Catherine — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:53:09 GMT

I bought a Prada handbag. I found it at a thrift store for $6.00.

re: How 'bout them apples?

Cheryl — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:25:37 GMT

This is all the result of parents who fail to discipline their children or teach them to value family and friends and indulged their whining brats with every toy ever made, $150 jeans, sneakers, etc so they can be cool, new cars at 17 or 18 yrs which they promptly smash sadly killing or maiming themselves or someone else. It also goes directly to the money grubbing media pushing the images of trashy behavior as being acceptable, the sense of entitlement and the message that human life and the work ethic have no value. Please folks, give your children time, discipline, basic skills and values and a sense of wonder and curiosity about the world around them.

re: How 'bout them apples?

Older, wiser & concerned — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:12:30 GMT

I LOVED ALL of your comments. And they are all true. $18.00 for 2 apples, how ridiculous. Credit card frenzy has replaced flat-out laziness. The thinking is, I don't have time to make it, I'll just buy it........and go more into debt. My husband and I are looking at retirement next year. Can't believe it's "HERE ALREADY." When I was a kid my father always said he'd never by anything advertised on TV, and I always wondered why? Now, I know and wish the rest of our world could have heeded his advice. When our children were small (now 35 & 32) I was a stay-at-home Mom and we lived on my husband's income. It was tough, we made it, and we NEVER bought anything that had a brand name on it. It was just too expensive............then as it is now. I still don't believe in advertising for a company, that should pay ME to market their product. I made lots of the kid's clothes, and saved a lot of money. It was nice looking stuff, and all their friends wanted me to sew for them. Now, I'm sewing for my grandchildren, and their parents are delighted to be able to save some very hard earned money. We took a 40th wedding anniversary trip to Rome a couple weeks ago.........after saving for it. Had some time to kill in the airport, and looked at a store that sold Gucci leather goods..........They wanted $365 for a wallet!!!! I could no more carry that thing than streak down mainstreet. Obviously, the person who spends THAT KIND OF MONEY on that kind of item, has to have more money than brains, OR...........loves drowning in the debt they created to carry the credit cards in the $365 wallet. We need to starting thinking about our needs, and less about our wants and maybe the world will be better off financially.

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Jeremy — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:10:51 GMT

I agree that our single biggest problems in the middle class stem from our inability to distinguish want from need, but I notice that nearly everyone uses a "passive voice" (hang on, I'm gonna go 11th grade English on you) to describe how "we're being trained" etc. In my opinion, it underscores the real root of this problem - we do not take personal responsibility for anything anymore. If we start over there, everything else can fall into place.

re: How 'bout them apples?

arturo — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:36:55 GMT

i think a lot of you are missing the mark, who buys the prada bag? i'll answer, the consumer. it isnt the media or the advertisers who are "oh so devious" the blame lies squarely on the shoulders of the person who would rather have something right now as opposed to in the future. credit used to be taken with shame, it meant you didnt have enough money to purchase something but you needed it so much you would swallow your pride. now, credit cards are cool and hip, have now pay when?

re: How 'bout them apples?

name withheld — Thu, 29 May 2008 04:24:45 GMT

Candy apples are luxury? My goodness, it was a treat in the fall during the county fair in my youth. Sam's Club is the wholesale side of Wal-Mart -- the classic and best example of American consumerism gone awry. Does anyone remember that Sam Walton began his stores based solely on AMERICAN MADE goods? Try to find anything made in the good ol' U.S.A. now while browsing the shelves. It isn't about keeping America strong, it's about the bottom dollar and increasing revenue to the stockholders, all at the expense of our fiscal solvency. If this keeps up, what will be considered luxury next? Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches?