Reply To: Brand Names�Wasting Money

cv: No one (or nearly no one) does that. Even if they did:

Suppose they paid $1500 for the Gucci pocketbook. Surely they could have gotten a very nice one for somewhere between $50-150.

That leaves $1400 spent on luxury. That alone could pay for shabbos chicken for a poor family in EY for 2 entire years according to the chickens for shabbos website. If they did not wish to give the money to tzedaka, to save the money instead would certainly allow the husband and children to be able to devote more time to talmud Torah.

Besides the point, when other women see her with the bag they will feel the desire to get one themselves….and on goes the cycle until it effects the entire community. Baruch Hashem we have Mesilas Yesharim to warn us of this. So I repeat, yes I do believe it to be immoral to purchase a Gucci bag- perhaps it is even lifnei iver though that is a discussion for another thread. Not even those admist the lowest madreigos of klal yisroel should be content with needing such things. This is clear and pashut to anyone who reads so much as one mussar sefer with an honest eye.