|
Printer-friendly format Email this thread to a friend Bookmark this thread |
This topic is archived. |
Home » Discuss » General Discussion |
n2doc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-11 04:35 PM Original message |
Mom blows $32,000 on daughter's 6th birthday |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
no_hypocrisy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-11 04:36 PM Response to Original message |
1. All I needed on my 6th birthday was Mom making a double chocolate Duncan Hines cake. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Art_from_Ark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-24-11 09:07 PM Response to Reply #1 |
35. I don't remember my 6th birthday |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
petronius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-27-11 02:18 PM Response to Reply #1 |
40. That's all I've wanted for 40 years of birthdays - although now it's the wife |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Warren DeMontague (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-11 04:37 PM Response to Original message |
2. Well, obviously the mom should be put in a burlap sack and beaten with metal rods. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
blueamy66 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-24-11 09:08 PM Response to Reply #2 |
36. Why the sarcasm? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
YellowRubberDuckie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-11 04:37 PM Response to Original message |
3. Jesus. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Book Lover (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-11 04:37 PM Response to Original message |
4. Well hell, let the rich waste their money! |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Shagbark Hickory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-11 04:38 PM Response to Original message |
5. If you think that's expensive, wait until "sweet sixteen". The caterers are already booked, I'm sure |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-11 05:10 PM Response to Reply #5 |
15. I once worked a sweet sixteen party for |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Shagbark Hickory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-11 05:40 PM Response to Reply #15 |
21. Yep. You can thank ronald freaking reagan for this bullpucky. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
calimary (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-24-11 08:18 PM Response to Reply #5 |
34. Oh Dear God. They think they're spending money NOW? On their six-year-old? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
bluestateguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-11 04:40 PM Response to Original message |
6. I just don't get it |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Arugula Latte (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-24-11 05:57 PM Response to Reply #6 |
27. She's probably already a hardcore "diva" who feels entitled to everything |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Edweird (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-11 04:41 PM Response to Original message |
7. Hey, if she's got the money more power to her. She's a 1 person economic stimulus. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
sinkingfeeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-11 04:42 PM Response to Original message |
8. My mom themed my 6th. birthday party around 'Davy Crockett'. We made 'coon skin' hats out of |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Burma Jones (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-11 04:45 PM Response to Original message |
9. My Oldest had his Bar Mitzvah last weekend |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-24-11 09:13 PM Response to Reply #9 |
37. 11K? WOW |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
ClarkUSA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-11 04:46 PM Response to Original message |
10. It's their money to spend and lots of people are making a living off of people like her. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-11 04:47 PM Response to Original message |
11. That's probably chump change compared to what her Quinceañera or Debut will cost |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
FirstLight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-11 04:47 PM Response to Original message |
12. why have these people on a TV show...? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-11 05:12 PM Response to Reply #12 |
16. For the same reason people stop to |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Johonny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-24-11 06:12 PM Response to Reply #12 |
29. That's the show |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
leftynyc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-11 04:47 PM Response to Original message |
13. So what? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
fasttense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-11 04:48 PM Response to Original message |
14. While people starve. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
petronius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-27-11 02:22 PM Response to Reply #14 |
42. I don't see any signs of anyone admiring it. About the most positive comment here is that |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
brooklynite (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-11 05:13 PM Response to Original message |
17. I like to think of it s as supporting the local economy |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
shraby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-11 05:37 PM Response to Original message |
18. On my children's birthdays (4) I made a 3 layered cake for |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
dkofos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-11 05:39 PM Response to Original message |
19. wish some of that had gone to me |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
KamaAina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-11 05:40 PM Response to Original message |
20. "middle-class parents"?? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
woodsprite (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-24-11 01:33 PM Response to Original message |
22. At 6yo, and even today at 48, all I wanted around me was |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Maru Kitteh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-24-11 01:37 PM Response to Original message |
23. Well thank goodness she didn't buy the cake with foodstamps, we'd be all up in her business |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Book Lover (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-24-11 05:47 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. +1 |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
InvisibleTouch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-24-11 05:55 PM Response to Original message |
25. I truly don't care how other people spend their money... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Vinca (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-24-11 05:55 PM Response to Original message |
26. I don't even remember my 6th birthday. Sure hope this kid does. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
ctaylors6 (362 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-24-11 06:04 PM Response to Original message |
28. "above and beyond their means" indeed |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
snappyturtle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-24-11 06:21 PM Response to Original message |
30. You gotta hear this: I just showed this to my 94 yr. old repub Mother. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Citizen Worker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-24-11 06:24 PM Response to Original message |
31. This is trickle down economics in real time. Just think about all of the people who were |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
sarcasmo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-24-11 06:51 PM Response to Original message |
32. That isn't far off from what we make in a year. Makes me ill. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
jmowreader (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-24-11 08:12 PM Response to Original message |
33. The comments on there are all "they could have helped the poor with that money" |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
dougyang (12 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-27-11 02:09 PM Response to Original message |
38. Children These Days |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
MedleyMisty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-27-11 02:15 PM Response to Original message |
39. I judge them |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
LWolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-27-11 02:20 PM Response to Original message |
41. I don't even remember my 6th birthday. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-27-11 02:22 PM Response to Original message |
43. How can this lady be middle class? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
bettyellen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-27-11 02:32 PM Response to Original message |
44. omg the video is hilarious, so tacky. and the kid had a stupid meltdown of course |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Puregonzo1188 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-27-11 02:33 PM Response to Original message |
45. You know I had my birthday parties at a Chuckie-Cheese type place, which just recently dawned on me |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
DU AdBot (1000+ posts) | Tue Apr 30th 2024, 05:05 PM Response to Original message |
Advertisements [?] |
Top |
Home » Discuss » General Discussion |
Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.1 Copyright 1997-2002 DCScripts.com
Software has been extensively modified by the DU administrators
Important Notices: By participating on this discussion board, visitors agree to abide by the rules outlined on our Rules page. Messages posted on the Democratic Underground Discussion Forums are the opinions of the individuals who post them, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC.
Home | Discussion Forums | Journals | Store | Donate
About DU | Contact Us | Privacy Policy
Got a message for Democratic Underground? Click here to send us a message.
© 2001 - 2011 Democratic Underground, LLC