thought of the day part 2

What must it be like to be the person who can afford to buy $90 shirts and $250 pants? (and not need that money for housing, bills and food). i can only imagine...
i wouldn't know. not on $7.50 an hour...(i would imagine the employees at the businesses who sell this stuff also experience this surrealism).
what it means in my case is that i would have to make something in the neighborhood of $50 an hour to match my current level of spending on this sort of thing (and that's assuming i was buying retail, which in real life happens rather infrequently).

buy nothing day is coming up in a few weeks, a day where you are challenged to not spend any money for 24 hours. although i think the goal is admirable (i suspect many people would be disoriented by the loss of shopping), it just serves to remind me that it's based on middle class assumptions, and that for some of us, not buying things is not a choice, but a reality. many's a time i was hungry and wanted something to eat, but didn't have a dime. spending your days surrounded by things you can't have is a hard thing to endure, even if you don't even want those things. imagine the pain if you do...
i probably won't buy anything on buy nothing day. not because i'm actively participating in a political event, but rather because chances are i'll be as broke as i usually am, and going through another day without money.