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How Much is Too Much for a Party?

Filed under: Events

This New York Times article about the TV show My Super Sweet 16 really got me thinking about spending. The show, if you are unfamiliar with it, is a reality program that follows the planning and preparation for some of the most expensive teenage birthday parties in the country. Many of the parties cost upwards of $200,000, not including the gifts of cars, clothes and jewelry that many of the lucky kids receive in addition.

The show has its fans and its critics, but the critics are always the most vocal, saying that such "celebrations of self... [are] an excuse to prolong the whiny, self-centered greediness that gives infantile a bad name." In contrast, a mother whose daughter appeared on the show said "Unless they were crazy or hated their child, any parent who was financially able would do it." Would they? Is there a point where the spending for a child's entertainment should stop?

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Roger Dubuis Too Much Cupid Watch

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Timepieces / Watches

I know I said I was done with Valentine-themed watches but Time Zone has pictures of a few more to slip under the wire. The Ebel Moon Chic watch is a pink-banded watch covered in diamonds and pink sapphires and Zodiac has a pink and red rubber version but my favorite of this batch is the Too Much Cupid, part of the popular Too Much line. It is a limited edition of 28 pieces and has a green mother-of-pearl dial with an emerald Cupid firing an arrow at a ruby heart. The case is 18K white gold and is surrounded in diamonds. Definitely Too Cute.

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