CONTROLLING THE PURSE STRINGS

I, The Flaming Bore, am pleased to announce that I have figured out why so many people are in heavy debt. It's all about purses. Not what's inside the purse but how much the blasted fashion accessories cost and how many women are willing to pay ridiculous prices for them.

Yesterday's big city newspaper featured an article about a new purse design group in the REALLY big city, New York, where puny pieces of leather are selling for $296.00-$435.00. And some of them aren't even big enough to put pocket change inside. What's the deal with that?

The clutch purse pictured with this blog looks eerily like the same one I carried to the Fredonia High School Valentine Party in 1965 (and again in 1967 with the same dress in this next pic, minus the purse), if you remove the "S" logo. In fact, I think this IS my purse, except maybe mine was a tad larger. And do you think Mama Bore choked up 3 or 4 hundred dollars for it? No, she did not. My guess is more like 3 or 4 dollars and, knowing Mama Bore, it is still somewhere in the hidden recesses of her house, ready to be used again.

I think anyone who pays $296.00-$435.00 for a purse is a absolutely crazy and a total fool, but these are selling like hotcakes all across the nation, of course. It's no wonder so many people are going into debt and bankruptcy these days. Anyone who is willing to spend that much money for a stupid purse has lost any degree of common sense. And we all know that "no sense" is equal to "no cents," which explains, in a nutshell, my theory about the problem with our economy. Blame it on the purse.