Rich as hell... I can't even imagine what it costs. Checked the profile, they mention they have a driver.

    • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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      3 days ago

      Birthday parties for 2-year-olds do not require catering you dumb fuck C suite parasite.

  • Barabas [he/him]
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    3 days ago

    This is an exercise in showing off your wealth, not about making your child happy. Not really anything new or unique to capitalism, but it has gotten a bit sillier.

    • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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      3 days ago

      You may be pleased to know that this user was posting in frustration about how their weight loss medicine took them down from 220 pounds to 165 pounds, but wouldn't take them any further.

      "Comfortable" just isn't good enough for these affluence-fiends.

  • Frivolous_Beatnik [comrade/them, any]
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    3 days ago

    The only childhood birthday I remember was my fifth; it was pirate themed, had a plank that was just that, a piece of wood on cinderblocks (no kiddie pool to jump in, it was cold asf out). Had hook-hands that were made of foil covered cardboard stuck through plastic cups, and little paper pirate hats. I got a knockoff megazord robot toy and it was my favorite for years.

    I bet that party in it's entirety cost like ten bucks, and I loved every second of it, cause I was a dumb kid who didn't need a party to cost 6 figures lmao. Let alone a party for a two year old who isn't going to remember a thing

  • FumpyAer [any, comrade/them]
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    4 days ago

    "I posted this as inspo for other parents" yeah I'm sure a custom color/lettering bouncy castle is very "inspiring" to others.

    • grace@lemmy.sdf.org
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      3 days ago

      I suppose she's right, but not in a cutesy way - I have friends living paycheck to paycheck who push themselves to near-bankruptcy with loans to host these ridiculously elaborate kids' parties. More aspirationally wealthy activities to keep families struggling, yay!

      • SoyViking [he/him]
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        3 days ago

        One of the ways the rich hurts the rest of us is by setting impossible standards for consumption. You might have a modest but reasonable comfortable lifestyle with your basic needs secured and access to some luxuries but seeing other people do impossible shit like this makes you feel insufficient and unhappy with what you have.

        The rich are making the rest of us feel miserable by making us feel poor even when we're not and by making us feel like we don't do "enough".

    • Bureaucrat [pup/pup's, null/void]
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      3 days ago

      All the way up to that bouncing castle I kept trying to give them copouts - "maybe they made the cookies themselves and they're really into baking. I know my cousin made macarons for her birthday and they're pretty difficult" / "The plates probably aren't super expensive, they're probably plastic" / "Okay the tables are very impressive, did they borrow them from a super fancy kindergarten a friend works at maybe?"
      Then I saw the custom logo on the bouncing castle

  • CliffordBigRedDog [he/him]
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    3 days ago

    its really disgusting how children nowadays can access australi*n content so easily over the internet

  • jack [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 days ago

    One time my parents hired a person who brought a big lizard to our house for my 6th or 7th birthday and that was pretty cool

  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 days ago

    the earliest birthday I even remember anything about was at like a McDonald's when I was five or six. and really I only remember it because I remember seeing a picture later when I was 11-12.

    little kid birthday parties are mostly about and for the parents. and this parent should be set adrift on their custom bluey bouncy house in the middle of the Pacific gyre with just enough water to go completely insane before they die.

    • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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      3 days ago

      I had a Western-style birthday party when I turned 7. It was fun and my parents put maybe 20 hours of preparation and $200 into it, at most. Every other birthday party was generic and I didn't care.

  • grace@lemmy.sdf.org
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    3 days ago

    I was just showing my husband that post earlier! It's so jarring seeing that gross display of wealth alongside other parents' lovingly homemade cakes and things.

  • FishLake@lemmygrad.ml
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    4 days ago

    This seals it. I nor my children will ever watch Bluey. You can’t make me. I don’t care how good ya’ll claim it is. We’re watching Blue’s Clues over here forever.

  • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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    3 days ago

    I think I remember peeing on my dad once when I was two. That's about it. Wasting that much money on a party, especially a year that's fairly insignificant, deserves serious re-education. She claims she never had a birthday party growing up because she was poor. Then holy fuck me in the shitting Christ maybe don't pull the ladder up behind you? You could have literally paid some random kid's college tuition and permanently changed their life. You could have paid for a homeless shelter's annual budget. Fucking Humane Society volunteer salary.

    I cannot imagine spending that amount of money on someone who won't remember it. All those toys will end up at Good Will or in the trash once the kids are in preschool. Fucking disgusting behavior.

    Mao did nothing wrong, sparrows deserved worse.

  • supafuzz [comrade/them]
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    3 days ago

    man I thought I was going over the top with my kid's 2-year bluey party but it turns out I had no idea where the top was, I can't even see it from down here

    • Nakoichi [they/them]
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      3 days ago

      When I was a kid I had a surprise party where I got a fifty year old refurbished ride on pedal driven tractor and had a birthday clown that was famous for following around Timothy Leary and the Dead and I thought that was the coolest shit ever.