IMO it's in bad taste at the minute. Lots of people are losing thier houses etc. Anybody who is looked up to by the public should have a bit of compassion for those less fortunate. Spend it but why the hell go telling the world you're spending thousands on a handbag you probably already have in 50 other colours?????

BUT...it is her money so I'm a bit torn. If you work hard for it and invest well then you are entitled to spend it.

Having said that if I see her or any other celebrity on my telly asking me to give money to the poor while they sit there with £50 of lipgloss on and going back to their plush hotel after I reserve the right to throw my new Primark pumps at the telly

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Originally posted by Blizzie:

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Originally posted by electric6:
I think it's vulgar but not immoral.

Is it wrong to like the sound of that?

Not at all

I don't think that it is morally wrong to spend money you have earned.......I do think it is morally wrong the amount that the Beckhams earn tho..

I think if people with that disposable income hide it under the mattress
And Dont Spend It !!

we will end up in a US 1930s Depression here

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Originally posted by squiggle:
It said on Radio 2 this morning that Victoria Beckham likes these Birkin(?) handbags for which there is maybe a 3 year or more waiting list and they cost thousands. She is supposed to have about 500 of them. Is this purely her own business or do you think its faintly obscene to spend like this, if you have the dosh?

Well she's keeping whoever is making them in employment.

I personally think it's obscene and a total disgrace, but of course, it's not up to me or anyone to say how she should spend David's her own money..

It's just when there are 10s of 1000s of people losing their jobs EVERY DAY, and businesses going tits-up and people losing their homes, it just makes me sick when people squander vast amounts of money on crap; like those 2 vacuous airheads Wayne and Coleen Rooney spending 5 million pounds on their wedding. That really angered me. yes I KNOW it's their money,, but why the hell did they have to spend THAT much?

It's their money, and they can spend it how they want, but it makes my blood boil to see people spend money recklessly. I watched that Martin Clunes 'visiting the UK islands' programme this past few weeks, and there were loads of uber-rich billionaires who had their own castle/stateley home, their own jet, half a dozen high performance cars, their own helicopter, their own farm, etc etc etc, and I just thought 'how vulgar and pretentious.' I found the programme rather innapropriate; when people have no jobs and people are having their homes repossessed... I felt like it was really rubbing peoples' noses in it. "Look how rich *I* am!"

JMHO of course.

There will always be rich people irrespective of how the economy is. Sad fact of life, but a fact nonetheless.

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Originally posted by Hollygolightly:
There will always be rich people irrespective of how the economy is. Sad fact of life, but a fact nonetheless.

Very true.....

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Originally posted by Baz:

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Originally posted by squiggle:
It said on Radio 2 this morning that Victoria Beckham likes these Birkin(?) handbags for which there is maybe a 3 year or more waiting list and they cost thousands. She is supposed to have about 500 of them. Is this purely her own business or do you think its faintly obscene to spend like this, if you have the dosh?

I personally think it is obscene.... but I guess conversely it's her own business

I agree with you. Yes, it is her money to do with as she wishes, but, to me, it is obscene when there are so many people who are desparately poor.

If I had the money like VB....hell yes....I would spend it extravagantly.


Can't take it with you when you die....live for today!

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Originally posted by Liverpoollass:
I agree with you. Yes, it is her money to do with as she wishes, but, to me, it is obscene when there are so many people who are desparately poor.

The sentiments of most I think

If everybody stopped spending, imagine what an even bigger state the Country would be in...hell, let the rich ones spend, at least someones making a living out of them...somewhere...

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Originally posted by The Devil In Diamante:
If everybody stopped spending, imagine what an even bigger state the Country would be in...hell, let the rich ones spend, at least someones making a living out of them...somewhere...

*pulls tongue out at devil in diamante *

Just kiddin' Guess you have a point..

I know pixie, i feel the same sometimes, just because i wanna be rich too.....

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Originally posted by The Devil In Diamante:
I know pixie, i feel the same sometimes, just because i wanna be rich too.....

Me too... I would like to be ric, but even if I was; I wouldn't spend like that...

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Originally posted by Cheeky-Pixie:

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Originally posted by The Devil In Diamante:
I know pixie, i feel the same sometimes, just because i wanna be rich too.....

Me too... I would like to be ric, but even if I was; I wouldn't spend like that...

I would, There's nothing like the feeling of going on a shopping spree and carrying loads of bags home full of lovely new clothes & SHOES!!!!

let the rich spend, though, as i said earlier, most of the designers give them free stuff...the rich get richer the poor get poorer......now, be back in a while, just filling a job application form in, MP for Bolton West! That way I don't even have to spend my OWN money!

I think there is a difference between being extravagent and just plain ostentatious. I mean, why would anyone want half a dozen cars, for example? 200 handbags and shoes? A castle with 10 bathrooms and 10 bedrooms? It is wonderful to have money and alot of it, but to spend it like some people do and rub it in the faces of people who have nothing - well that is obscene imo.

Oh and I am not even a socialist

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Originally posted by Liverpoollass:
I mean, why would anyone want half a dozen cars

1) to drive for pleasure
2) for track days
3) convertable for summer
4) to use with family
5) for transporting loads
6) partners car

thats six, easy.

as to the houses comment surely most 2 or 3 bedroom houses have at least 2 bathrooms, isnt it fair to assume that if you have more bedrooms you'll have more bathrooms?

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Originally posted by Cheeky-Pixie:
I watched that Martin Clunes 'visiting the UK islands' programme this past few weeks, and there were loads of uber-rich billionaires who had their own castle/stateley home, their own jet, half a dozen high performance cars, their own helicopter, their own farm, etc etc etc, and I just thought 'how vulgar and pretentious.'

If I was uber-rich, I'd run out and buy all that stuff

The thing with Rooney (and other top flight footballers) is that they get paid such a vast amount of money, that spending £5m on a wedding probably isn't that massive an amount to them. The cost of the average wedding is around £20k... their wedding could well be in proportion to their wages - they must have had a lot of guests though

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Originally posted by Big Brothers Big Scam:

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Originally posted by Liverpoollass:
I mean, why would anyone want half a dozen cars

1) to drive for pleasure
2) for track days
3) convertable for summer
4) to use with family
5) for transporting loads
6) partners car

thats six, easy.

or maybe you just want to have different ones cos they feel different to drive... aston martin, porche, ferrari etc

Absolutely not. No pockets in a shroud and all that.

What have morals got to do with shopping!

Well, personally, I always feel really guilty if I buy something really extravagant that I don't need.
There are several very needy charities that I support, which do fantastic work and are always desperate for money, and I always think how much good that money I spent would have done if I'd have bought something cheaper and sent the extra money to them.

I try not to buy anything very extravagant but to prefer to use any extra cash I've got where it will do some good and make a difference - however small.

But that's just me. I'm not judging people who don't think that way.

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Originally posted by Liverpoollass:
why would anyone want half a dozen cars, for example?

very bad driver?

your money, spend it how u wish.

however i think she gets the bags for free.

Nah, it's your money spend it how you like. If people have a problem with it that's their lookout.
Should you covet her ass? Now there's a dilemma.

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Originally posted by ~Orchid~:
Should you covet her ass?

She doesn't have one, its just bones

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Originally posted by SazBomb:

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Originally posted by ~Orchid~:
Should you covet her ass?

She doesn't have one, its just bones

LMAO!