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Dona – EXACTLY!!! – I mean I don’t NEED an iphone – but then again if I don’t have a smart phone” how am I perceived when I am out and about and can’t get emails or search for things online when trying to get a job. Truthfully having an iphone has sorta made my life a bit easier…
Lech, I think my great, great, greats were on a serious diet, staggering around the west of Ireland trying to figure out whether to stick it out through the famine and eat grass or find a boat over here. They stuck it out there somehow. Definately, peasant farm workers.
Gem, I am considering getting an iphone. The thing is that I don’t need it. I already have a cell phone, a landline, an internet connection, cable…..where does it end?
You also have far too many expensive European leather handbags!!!!
“that is true as well – I think it’s just a complicated mess that is based in everything from an individual’s insecurity to corporations greed to our gov’t needing to spur an economy -it’s a vicious cycleâ€
Yeah. That sums up how I see it. Add in the human’s susceptibility to marketing.
Gem, I am considering getting an iphone. The thing is that I don’t need it. I already have a cell phone, a landline, an internet connection, cable…..where does it end?
I think that is how many in the middle class actually got themselves self in a mess. One cannot spend oneself into a certain status.”
that is true as well – I think it’s just a complicated mess that is based in everything from an individual’s insecurity to corporations greed to our gov’t needing to spur an economy -it’s a vicious cycle
Dona – EXACTLY!!! – I mean I don’t NEED an iphone – but then again if I don’t have a smart phone” how am I perceived when I am out and about and can’t get emails or search for things online when trying to get a job. Truthfully having an iphone has sorta made my life a bit easier…
Lech, I think my great, great, greats were on a serious diet, staggering around the west of Ireland trying to figure out whether to stick it out through the famine and eat grass or find a boat over here. They stuck it out there somehow. Definately, peasant farm workers.
“If one worked harder instead of blogging all day, one could raise his or her economic standing.”
you should write a self help book.
By donatella on March 21, 2011 12:31 PM
Gem, I am considering getting an iphone. The thing is that I don’t need it. I already have a cell phone, a landline, an internet connection, cable…..where does it end?
You also have far too many expensive European leather handbags!!!!
“that is true as well – I think it’s just a complicated mess that is based in everything from an individual’s insecurity to corporations greed to our gov’t needing to spur an economy -it’s a vicious cycleâ€
Yeah. That sums up how I see it. Add in the human’s susceptibility to marketing.
If one worked harder instead of blogging all day, one could raise his or her economic standing.
“What class were all of your great great grandparents? Probably not middle class.”
they were ballers.
Gem, I am considering getting an iphone. The thing is that I don’t need it. I already have a cell phone, a landline, an internet connection, cable…..where does it end?
“Gem;
I think that is how many in the middle class actually got themselves self in a mess. One cannot spend oneself into a certain status.”
that is true as well – I think it’s just a complicated mess that is based in everything from an individual’s insecurity to corporations greed to our gov’t needing to spur an economy -it’s a vicious cycle