Materialistic, by k.cha

materialistic?

I’m really not a materialistic person. But when my parents are in Korea and my mom asks me if I want anything, OF COURSE I am going to go ballistic. Why? Because Korea (or Asia & Europe in general) is always ahead in fashion. Back in high school, I loved wearing my Korean hair accessories, shoes, jewelry, and clothes, because I stood out from the rest of the crowd. It was unique and ahead of the trend. I also like compliments I get and then the following question, “Where’d you get it?” to which I answer, “It’s from Korea.” My way of saying, “You can’t copy me.” A little mean, I know.

I think I’m blogging about this b/c when my brother and I compared what we were getting from our parents in Korea, my list was a lot longer than his, and I don’t think he even asked for the backpack my mom bought him. He said to me, “Stop being so greedy” or something like that. And it made me realize, maybe I am being a little too greedy. But hey, it’s not everyday you get products straight from Korea. And since I spend most of my life not spending on materials for myself, I do feel it permissible to indulge from time to time. I don’t want to be too ascetic of a person, I don’t think that’s a good thing either.

I asked for a cell phone (which is the only thing they can’t get since it won’t work in the States *sad*), backpack, shoes, clothes, and hair accessories. I may also have asked for jewelry. My mom gave me 2 websites to order a pair of shoes from. A pair. I replied with a list of 11 shoes and asked her to buy just 1 of those pairs for me. I couldn’t help adding to the list.

OMG am I materialistic?!?!?!?!?!

Haha just kidding, I’m not freaking out. I’m actually REALLY EXCITED for when my parents come back… hahaha!


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Wow look at this lady talkin about how she thinks she’s materialisitic…or is feeling guilty about it or something…MAN! Come on now…you are an angel in comparison to my indulgences!

I have a whole stupid hello kitty blog dedicated to that bs. I am a horrible person. I have to admit: I know I’m the “m-word” but I don’t like it! I wish I was not…and then I indulge myself many times a year and I like it. Then I don’t like how stupid it is and then I don’t like how I keep wanting more unnecessary things. Like why can’t I be like my mother and tell me she got a gucci bag from a client then I come home and see it’s a coach bag…

I actually know when it all started. Unfortunately, it all started at church. I noticed all the poor kids in the lower-class suburbs in which I used to live were obsessed with it. How old were they? I don’t know maybe 11ish—middle school age…and everyone was wearing Tommy, Nike etc…a few select girls were wearing Bebe! WHAT THE WHAT!! Yeah so that’s where I grew up…and then at church all the girls my age (this is still middle school) were shopping at the Limited Too and Gap and what not…and I had some clothes from yard sales and all this rainbow stuff because that’s what I liked. I also had rainbow-framed glasses because I liked all the colors. I especially liked to wear the free t-shirts I got from church for going to vacation bible school. One time I got TWO of the same shirts—one small and one medium. I wore them all the time because I had TWO. Come to think of it now, people probably thought I was wearing the same shirt all the time. But back then I did not care…

Then I started getting some money for decent grades at school and then I was possessed to want to purchase things I had seen my schoolmates and churchmates wearing. I started buying things from the Sports Authority and Gap and the Limited Too and Hecht’s. It was at that point I was indulging myself and it would only get worse.

Then I go to middle school with my Calvin Klein gray shirt and Limited Too khaki pants with the two pieces of string hangin right at the sternum in the back and a friend of mine who came back from Peru (yeah kids just went off to other countries during the school year and just come back and it’s whatever…) and she says “Wow you’re in style now.” I mean what the freak kind of comment is that? And I said, “I’ve always been..” or something like that…trying to act like I had been dressing like this for some time now but her absence made her miss such events.

So yeah I noticed it first at school because that’s where I was most of the time but the people at church were more wealthy so they had better stuff, I noticed. I even remember one time I got Calvin Klein frames for my glasses and some guy at church noticed it said Calvin Klein on the side and said they were nice just because of that. And this was CHURCH, people!! The most materialistic people were and are still there. That is where I learned to be materialistic. That just goes to show you there’s not much of a difference between the “worldly” people and the…?? church-going-people?? But in essence they’re all the same!