Comments on: Liz Claiborne sunglasses

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 18:44:12 +0000

Not “risk adverse”? Some people would say betting on price appreciation with borrowed money is risky.

By: RealOG

RealOG — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 19:24:02 +0000

I think it is all about PERCEIVED risk vs. PERCEIVED reward. Everyone perceives things in different ways. It is all based on their education, intelligence, and life experience. Jackass: The Movie asside, people that do “dumb” things typically don’t do them thinking, “Hey this would be really stupid of me to do.”

Replace the Liz Claibournes with an Xbox 360, the secrets to winning every poker game you play, or suitcase full of a hundred thousand cash. Different rewards have different values in different peoples eyes.

Whose eyes are you looking through? :)

By: Clifford

Clifford — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 13:42:49 +0000

Too old and risk adverse? I think I would characterize your decision not to pursue sunglasses as “smart”. Risking your life for a pair of broken sunglasses?

By: NLG

NLG — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 11:59:33 +0000

Wow, I really think that young people (I’m assuming they were pretty young, in their 20s) have really screwed up priorities these days! She’s probably still wearing those broken LC’s around town today :)

My wife’s cousin is a good example. He and his wife are around 28-29 years old, they make decent money and live in Vancouver. However, I am under the impression that they spend every penny they make. They have extremely lavish and one might argue, selfish tastes. I would guess they eat out 3-4 times per week at expensive restaurants, they collect things like watches, shoes and clothes, and take vacations 3-4 times per year.

In general, there’s nothing wrong with the way they live their life. I’m sure they’re quite happy. But, what about priorities, will they ever be able to retire, do they save any money?