SPENDING

According to the Census Bureau the 25.2 million teens in America today between the ages 13-18 spend their money on food, cars, phones, but more than anything else... clothes. That doesn't surprise me at all! In fact I think it's the Media that causes such spending on our part. Flipping through my Seventeen Magazine I thought it would be interesting to see exactly how many ads are in the magazine. THERE WAS AN ADVERTISEMENT ON EVER F^*&#@G PAGE! I'm not even kidding, and ad on every page?! And it doesn't help that the people wearing the clothes being advertised to us, are beautiful, fit, and confident. When I see an ad where the model looks absolutely fabulous in her heels and whatever else, I think to myself 'I wanna look like that,' so then I go out and spend money on one designer thing, and there goes all my money.

haha I remember when my mom and I went shopping, back when the economy didn't suck so bad, and I got a $230 pair of jeans. Seven For All Mankind is the brand, and OMG they are fabulous, but when my dad found out how much I spent on them he flipped! And yes I made the argument that they were high quality jeans, and they would last me forever, but he still could not accept it. At that point I didn't understand, but now I totally do, because if those jeans didn't have the label... I would have never spent that much on them. The Media knows that and so do the companies that spend millions on advertising campaigns. Makes you think huh?

Jeans worth 230 dollars???