Million Dollar Baby For Real

According to a 2004 survey, it may cost low-income to high-income families anywhere between $134,370 to $269,520 respectively, to raise a child today in America.
[MSN.com]


That being said, why are people who are broke as hell always wanting to buy infants things they cannot afford?

I don't know, but around my way, I notice how careless parents get with money when they strive to give their kids the best.


Christian Dior For Baby



Dior
Metallic Leather Sneaker
$175.00




Dior
Dior Logo Teddy Bear
$265.00




Dior
Baby Dior Pacifier
$45.00




Dior
Sleeping Bag, Gray and White
$240.00

[The Life Files]



On another side of the coin, kids are being bullied for wearing designer brand clothing.

What is going on in the world?!

I wish somebody would've jumped me for my JC Penney Hunt Club™ jacket.



As More Designers Target Kids, Label-Consciousness Grows;
The Snarky 'Nice Clothes'



Aryana McPike, a sixth-grader from Springfield, Ill., has a closet full of designer clothes from Dolce & Gabbana, Juicy Couture, True Religion and Seven For All Mankind. But her wardrobe, carefully selected by a fashion-conscious mother, hasn't won her friends at school.

Kids in her class recently instructed her that she was wearing the wrong brands. She should wear Apple Bottoms jeans by the rapper Nelly, they told her, and designer sneakers, such as Air Force 1 by Nike. She came home complaining to her mother that "all the girls want to know if I will ever come to school without being so dressed up."

Read the rest here...


Apparently, you're damned if your parents can afford the clothes and you're damned if they cannot. I say, paper sacks for every student! Of course, I can say that now because those school days are far, far behind. (I cried when they implemented uniforms during my senior year, but we made it fly though!)