There is a girl in Alabama whose idiot parents have purchased 37, yes, Thirty-Seven, Stanley cups for her at $50 a pop. So $1850 on adult sippy cups for their little pumpkin. And of course, she’s an ‘influencer’ with over 100,000 followers on Tik Tok. All financed by her parents.
Here’s the money quote:
Refencing limited edition models that can at times retail for $60, she said: ‘If they are rare, I would want to use them more because I’m special for having them.’
Because having adult sippy cups makes her special (HT to Brett Cooper for pointing out the fact that they are, indeed, sippy cups). So her entire self-worth is wrapped up in a phase that, by all accounts, is already starting to fade out.
Then a parent, trying to do the right thing for her daughter, buys her 9-year old an off-brand and the girl got so bullied, that she finally had to capitulate, basically to save her child’s mental health.
She went on Tik Tok to explain what happened and her video went viral. I don’t Tik Tok but her video is in the link above.
I’m thinking it was a good thing that when I was a kid, mom made my clothes, with the exception of the two pairs of Toughskins jeans. I’m a function over form kind of girl and that’s probably why.
But I don’t think that Gen X, with some exceptions, really gave a shit about what brand someone was wearing, or, if they did, that anyone would give a shit about what they thought.
But I do have a couple vintage Stanley thermoses for sale…..
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