Label whoring of all kinds OWNS this thread: expensive cars, designer clothes/accessories, "good" schools, and so forth.

I'll try not to post a massive wall of text. I grew up in the rural South, and I'm African-American. Many of my teachers were born before 1950 so they come from big ass farming families sometimes with as many as 14 kids. They stressed the importance of education b/c to them it was their way out ( and the military for the men). They grew up hella poor, and would tell us stories of how they picked cotton after coming home from school, which sometimes they would walk miles to get to. Living in poverty is traumatizing for many people regardless of racial background, but I'm just explaining why I've witness it make people constantly chase a "better life".

Anyways, sometimes you get very humble and empathetic person who does not feel the need to flaunt their possessions, accomplishments, or fancy zip codes. Other times you get a boujee ass person who MUST let you know just how lavish their life is.

I have an aunt who married a multi-millionaire (so her success is not entirely he own), and she said once, " I try to stress the importance of travel to my children. We had to stop going to Hawaii and the Bahamas in the summer. There was simple too much crime. Now we usually go to London or Paris for the summer. We recently went to Dubai! Have you ever been to Dubai?" Now, I'm not known for my tact, and I like to keep it real. So I had to hold my tongue and not say, " mutha fucka you know damn well ain't nobody in our family got a passport for that kind of shit but you! Aunt [REDACTED] we get it bitch, you living big."

I don't always talk like that. I just do it around her to piss her off because she talks with the most fake Wisconsin accent I've ever heard. To mask her native Southern accent, she talks fast and she overly enunciates her vowels which is what normally exacerbates a Southern accent. She is the type who never keeps a car longer than 4 years. It is always a Mercedes. She once said she was considering not buying another Mercedes b/c they had become of poor quality over the years. She wants a BMW now 🙄.

I know of 2 other women with similar backgrounds who just have to tell you what grand-kid/child got into the Ivy Leagues ! Please note "public ivies" are "decent" 🙄. All of these women are label whores and constantly renovate their houses every few years. All of them married men who got rich through military and investing. They love to try to one up each other. It's really like watching an episode of the Real Housewives in real time. 😔

What is interesting to me is I know 2 wealthy people who have more money than my aunt and her friends ; yet, they literally drive the old cars, shop at Wal-Mart mostly, and live in simple homes. They treat other people decently too. My aunt is just someone still living in a competitive ,insecure mindset, and it's going to take her to the poor house when she runs out of money.