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[Oerwinde]

So my girlfriend wants to get me a new wallet. My wallet is fine. I like my wallet, it holds my money, it holds my change, I like the style, etc. But my girlfriend doesn't like my wallet because its 6 years old, and the velcro doesn't work. Is it wrong that I don't want a new wallet? We had an hour and a half conversation about this.

 

Also, I don't like leather. Leather wallets, leather furniture, leather car interior, etc. I just don't like it. Is that wierd?

 

My roommate thinks its crazy that I'd rather have a $40 timex than a $10,000 rolex. I told him I'd totally take the $10k rolex, sell it, buy a $40 timex and a new home theatre system. I just figure whats the point of spending 10k on a watch, when the timex is more accurate and you can read it in the dark.

 

He also thinks I'm crazy because he said we should all go to this expensive restaurant and spend 50 bucks on a meal and I said I'd rather use that money to buy 2 dvds or a video game.

 

This stuff makes sense to me, but other people seem to think I'm nuts.

[kirottu]

Some people always want "luxury" items instead of cheap and rational items.

[Surreptishus]

Its tough when money is tight.

[Atreides]

My roommate thinks its crazy that I'd rather have a $40 timex than a $10,000 rolex. I told him I'd totally take the $10k rolex, sell it, buy a $40 timex and a new home theatre system. I just figure whats the point of spending 10k on a watch, when the timex is more accurate and you can read it in the dark.

I'd rather have the Rolex for the exact reason you stated. Though I'm not sure what the second-hand market for Rolexes is I'm sure that the sale - 40 is worth the effort.

[ShadowPaladin V1.0]

Also, I don't like leather. Leather wallets, leather furniture, leather car interior, etc. I just don't like it. Is that wierd?

 

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

 

Lots of people don't like carrying around bits of dead animal.

 

I don't think your weird either. You just seem beyond the whole status symbol thing.

[astr0creep]

You have people who need to show off the bling bling, and you have people like you and me(and others ) that would rather have the cash to feed our families.

 

A 10k watch, the fact that it exists, is wrong. Somebody would give it to me and I would sell it for either a home theater like you, or a very nice down payment on a new car, if I needed one.

 

I guess when you have everything, your needs will change. I'm very poor so my needs are basic and the value of money is higher than it would be if I was uber-rich I suppose.

 

I have no needs for luxuries. My wallet is falling apart but I never have any money on me. So I don't need a new one, I just keep my ATM card in my pocket.

 

And I hate leather too. Makes me sweat too much.

[Hell Kitty]

Yes you are weird. I mean, velcro...? Ewww.

 

I have a leather wallet, but anyone who thinks this thing is a status symbol probably also thinks owning a pile of dirt is a status symbol.

 

I agree about the watch. I just wanna be albe to tell the damn time.

 

I don't much care for expensive restaurants, except on special occasions. Of course I'm also not one of these people who whines about how horrible fast food supposedly is, either.

Edited March 15, 2006 by Hell Kitty

[metadigital]

If you live in a $100k house, then you don't buy a $10k watch.

 

If you have several $20million mansions in various cities, like Monte Carlo, NY, London, Venice, etc, and a garage full of cars like Ferrari, Maclaren Bentley and Maybach, then spending $1m on a Patek Phillippe that your great-grandson can hand to his great-grandson might be a worthy purchase.

 

And Velcro? Man, get a new wallet ... that just screams VAGRANT.

[ShadowPaladin V1.0]

He's the real life version of my EQ druid. Still wearing his tattered leather boots at level 50.

[213374U]

A 10k watch, the fact that it exists, is wrong.

It's not wrong. It's capitalism. As long as there are people willing to pay that much, there will be $10k watches.

 

Myself, I don't use a watch. My mobile phone is enough to tell the time, so a watch is unnecessary. I don't think I would want a $10k watch, but then again, I've never had one. I'd gladly accept the money though, and waste it promptly and merrily.

 

Bottom line is, you shouldn't let your gf decide what wallet you should use. First it's the wallet, and before you know how, you're using deodorant and wearing underwear.

Edited March 15, 2006 by 213374U

[Kaftan Barlast]

A good thing with mobile phones is that you dont need a watch. And Im very prejudiced towards people who have expensive watches, they tend to be very materialistic and more or less soulless.

 

 

Also, I don't like leather. Leather wallets, leather furniture, leather car interior, etc. I just don't like it. Is that wierd?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

 

 

I think people who came up with these things were the ones not thinking. Leather does not breath. If you spend an hour driving in the summer, itll make this "squich" sucking sound as you get out of your seat because your ass and back will be drenched with sweat.

[Gfted1]

Yes you are weird. I mean, velcro...? Ewww.

 

I have a leather wallet, but anyone who thinks this thing is a status symbol probably also thinks owning a pile of dirt is a status symbol.

 

I agree about the watch. I just wanna be albe to tell the damn time.

 

I don't much care for expensive restaurants, except on special occasions. Of course I'm also not one of these people who whines about how horrible fast food supposedly is, either.

 

 

^What he said.

 

Of course I get the concept that if you dont have disposable cash those things would seem outlandish but give it a few years.

[Mahf]

So my girlfriend wants to get me a new wallet. My wallet is fine. I like my wallet, it holds my money, it holds my change, I like the style, etc. But my girlfriend doesn't like my wallet because its 6 years old, and the velcro doesn't work. Is it wrong that I don't want a new wallet? We had an hour and a half conversation about this.

 

Also, I don't like leather. Leather wallets, leather furniture, leather car interior, etc. I just don't like it. Is that wierd?

 

My roommate thinks its crazy that I'd rather have a $40 timex than a $10,000 rolex. I told him I'd totally take the $10k rolex, sell it, buy a $40 timex and a new home theatre system. I just figure whats the point of spending 10k on a watch, when the timex is more accurate and you can read it in the dark.

 

He also thinks I'm crazy because he said we should all go to this expensive restaurant and spend 50 bucks on a meal and I said I'd rather use that money to buy 2 dvds or a video game.

 

This stuff makes sense to me, but other people seem to think I'm nuts.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

 

In any relationship, people are going to see things like this differently and that's ok. The best thing to do is to accept the wallet and take it as her expressing, in a way that is meaningful to her, that she cares about you and wants you to be taken care of.

 

In her eyes, wallets aren't just about function they're also about form. The way she sees it, it is valuable for you not just to be able to hold money, but also to have a nice looking, stylish wallet. It will hold your money, and also say to people, "This guy is taken care of."

 

So take it that way, even if the actual thing doesn't make much difference to you. Learning to express love/concern in the way the other person wants it to be expressed is important, and accepting love/concern from someone in the way *they* know how to express it is just as important.

 

At the end of the day, it isn't as much about a wallet as it is about her caring for you. Certainly she has to learn to express that care in ways that are meaningful to you, but it cases like this, it is best for you to take it for what it is and express gratitude to her.

 

That's my advice.

[kirottu]

^Oerwinde

[Deadly_Nightshade]

Yes you are weird. I mean, velcro...? Ewww.

 

I have a leather wallet, but anyone who thinks this thing is a status symbol probably also thinks owning a pile of dirt is a status symbol.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

 

LOL!

I have 2 agree...

Edited March 15, 2006 by Deadly_Nightshade

[Nartwak]

This stuff makes sense to me, but other people seem to think I'm nuts.

Frugality isn't crazy. You're not sentimentally attached to your old wallet are you?

[ShadowPaladin V1.0]

Maybe it's lucky. Like lucky pants

[Surreptishus]

Dont take the new wallet! Its been implanted with a transponder so that the US government can track you!

 

OR

 

Dont take the new wallet! Its made out of leather and people with leather fetishes just weird you out too much!

[Walsingham]

I had the exact same problem. I have an old nylon and velcro wallet. BUt unlike yours mine is still in perfect operating condition. My girlfriend objected and wanted me to have a more 'manly' leather one. I object because the nylon one is doing the bloody job.

 

Of course, I also like testing to see who gets snobbish when I pull out the battered thing. People who do get on the list for further observation.

 

However, in many other areas I WILL go for a more expensive option. Suits and shoes for work, for example. But that's still going to be on the basis of strength and utility rather than famous brands. And incidentally, only merchant bankers should wear pinstripe IMO, no matter what the magazines say.

 

Anyway, in general buying things just so you've got new things is idiotic and snobbish.

[metadigital]

I have a few pin-stripe suits ... I was even thinking of buying a bowler hat ... "

[Deadly_Nightshade]

I have a few pin-stripe suits ... I was even thinking of buying a bowler hat ... "

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

 

quick!

Run away before he converts you!

[Oerwinde]

For the curious ones, this is my wallet:

 

[metadigital]

Your choice of wallet is perfect (read: you have nothing worth keeping secure).

[kalimeeri]

I think it's all in what matters to you. About wallets and watches, I'll go for the practical and useful every time, because expensive watches break twice as fast as cheap ones--a Timex breaks, I just throw it away and get a new one, and I'm happy. That's part of who I am; I don't buy stuff that I'm afraid to touch for fear of getting it dirty. I don't believe in the concept of 'good' china that gets dusted off once a year, and when you die it's still there, because it never got used. And I don't go to a restaurant because it's fancy, I go to have a nice meal that I can enjoy with my friends. It's no good if I'm not comfortable or feel out of place there.

 

But that's kind of what bothers me about others telling me what I should do or use or wear (unless the purple shirt has a hole in it). Constructive criticism or logical argument I can take, but if somebody's constantly pushing, I start wondering if what I am isn't good enough. Trying to change a person's basic nature isn't caring, it's making them into whoever you wanted in the first place. And it doesn't work.

[Deraldin]

I don't think you are crazy. I have a leather wallet, but it's a cheap $20 wallet that I got for christmas many years ago. I have a $40 Timex. Currently it stays in my pocket as the watch strap is too small for my wrist and I'm too lazy to get a bigger strap/new watch.

 

On the matter of leather furniture though I'll have to disagree. My uncle has this pair of leather couches and a large chair that have to be the most comfortable furniture I've ever had the pleasure of using. It's just so comfortable...