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09/26/2003: "Makes perfect sense to me"
From Wired magazine's Jargon Watch:
Rocketing
Marketing term for Americans' growing tendency to spend big bucks on things like cars, entertainment systems, and travel while being cheap with everything else
This is so me. I'll spend countless hours online searching for the cheapest air fares anywhere, on any airline -- cattle call, no dinner, AirTran, Southwest, doesn't matter -- then spend the money I saved shopping and eating frivolously during the vacation; I'll drive out of my way to save $.02 a gallon on gas; and I'll wear shoes and undergarments until they can no longer be worn. But I'll (normally, when they're not sick) buy expensive cat food; buy them silly, expensive toys that are either destroyed or lost under the fridge within hours; and spend hundreds of dollars on CDs, headphones, computer equipment, gadgets and kids' toys without blinking an eye.
Current mood: Relaxed
Replies: 2 shoutouts
OMG!! that is so me, too!
it's so me, that I now have to blog about it.
Posted by tiff @ 09/28/2003 03:40 AM EST
You BUY CDs? What is this, 1999? :-)
Posted by ~ @ 09/27/2003 10:51 PM EST
