Amused
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Clear lights are trendy now.
I personally don't like them. I only use colored lights. Multi on the tree and red/green for accents.
But I also don't like how colored mini light strings now have pink bulbs. I liked it a lot more when it was just red, green, blue and yellow. But new strings (in an attempt to appear brighter) have added pink as well. So now its red, pink, green, blue and yellow.
I personally don't like them. I only use colored lights. Multi on the tree and red/green for accents.
But I also don't like how colored mini light strings now have pink bulbs. I liked it a lot more when it was just red, green, blue and yellow. But new strings (in an attempt to appear brighter) have added pink as well. So now its red, pink, green, blue and yellow.
bucwylde23
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I don't care for white lights. I don't care if my house looks "classy" It's only for a few weeks out of the year. White is the easy way out. colors FTW.
QFT. Although I have never inspected my parent's tax return, my mom claims that they are upper-middle class. In relative to their peers, this is truth -- they have friends that are much richer (but yet understateded about it, the old money), those that are much richer and love to flash it (the so-called novaeu rich--I have a couple of uncle's like this) and friends that have/earn less. But I'm going to go out on a limb and say that a 650K house in Dallas and an income much greater than 100K wouldn't exactly make them the 'median' income in this country.
That is extremely messed up. What kind of person votes for a rule like that? THERE is your War on Christmas.
Mr. Lifer meet Kettle.
Down here many people spend 2X more than that on their yachts and many are not a second home.
Rich usually implies net worth in the hundreds of millions or billions. Well off and wealthy are not really rich. A person with a net worth of a million or so is doing OK, perhaps middle class.
According to the OP our family would be "rich". We're more like the Waltons. (The 1970's TV show not the founders of Wal Mart.)
Chaotic42
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Originally posted by: Minerva
Mr. Lifer meet Kettle.
Hey, what can I say? It got boring at the radio station at night.
I don't think you get just how poor people are in other parts of the country. What do you base your statements about the implications of the word rich on?
Can we pin-point exactly what "rich" is? Probably not, but I don't see any reason to laugh at his suggestion that a person with a $500,000 house is rich, especially considering the value of houses over most of the country. $500K for a house is about 3.5 times the national median home value: Link
I prefer the all white
My parents put colored stuff in bushes and stuff but the house has all white bulbs around the house I helped put em up today
My parents put colored stuff in bushes and stuff but the house has all white bulbs around the house I helped put em up today
All white has its own appeal, but is rather boring if everything is that way. We have one tree in the front window that is all white. Then we have a second tree back in the den that is multicolored. We have all green lights around the decorations on the fireplace mantle. We then have two miniature trees outside the front door that are both all white. We haven't put any lights on the house yet, but they will be multi-colored when we do.
Originally posted by: Minerva
Mr. Lifer meet Kettle.
Down here many people spend 2X more than that on their yachts and many are not a second home.
Rich usually implies net worth in the hundreds of millions or billions. Well off and wealthy are not really rich. A person with a net worth of a million or so is doing OK, perhaps middle class.
According to the OP our family would be "rich". We're more like the Waltons. (The 1970's TV show not the founders of Wal Mart.)
hmm... I think you have a slightly odd view. I think that most Americans have a very broad view of middle class. A net worth of $1 million is solidly middle class according to the vast majority of people.
The line where "rich" starts is debatable. In some parts of the country, $1 million would let you live "richly." I think that almost all Americans agree that $10 million or more is "rich."
I think there is perhaps *some* distinction between people with 10 mil and people with 100 mil, but among the people I know with these amounts of money, there is in fact little difference in terms of how they live their lives.
I consider owning a Petercopter and Hindenpeter rich. If you only have one of those, you are not rich.
http://www.rationalrevolution.net/articles/american_income_taxation.htm
If you scroll down to Average After Tax Income in 2000 Dollars, you'll see that the averages for the quintiles are:
$141,400 $59,200 $41,900 $29,000 $13,700
I don't see how you could be in the top quintile, making $141,400 or more and be considered middle class.
http://www.uwec.edu/geography/Ivogeler/w367/gif/rich-poor-graph.gif
Notice that the top 10% mark is just over 200k HOUSEHOLD income.
If you scroll down to Average After Tax Income in 2000 Dollars, you'll see that the averages for the quintiles are:
$141,400 $59,200 $41,900 $29,000 $13,700
I don't see how you could be in the top quintile, making $141,400 or more and be considered middle class.
http://www.uwec.edu/geography/Ivogeler/w367/gif/rich-poor-graph.gif
Notice that the top 10% mark is just over 200k HOUSEHOLD income.
JulesMaximus
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1sikbITCH
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Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Originally posted by: Minerva
Mr. Lifer meet Kettle.
Hey, what can I say? It got boring at the radio station at night.
I don't think you get just how poor people are in other parts of the country. What do you base your statements about the implications of the word rich on?
Can we pin-point exactly what "rich" is? Probably not, but I don't see any reason to laugh at his suggestion that a person with a $500,000 house is rich, especially considering the value of houses over most of the country. $500K for a house is about 3.5 times the national median home value: Link
A million dollar net worth is RICH. The middle class of America is not comprised of millionaires.
http://www.census.gov/prod/2006pubs/p60-231.pdf (page 11)
The medium income in America in 2005 was $46,326. To most Americans, someone living in a $500,000 house would be considered rich, especially with all those white Christmas lights
My guess is that nobody wants to be the gossip of the neighborhood. They all have appearances to keep up.
I live in what I consider to be a middle-class neighborhood ($180,000 homes, nearly all owner-occupied) and even here everyone decorates in white lights... except for my house with the 8 ft tall polar bear and couple thousand green and red bulbs covering the front of the house and across the lawn down to the street, and the gyrating HAPPY HOLIDAYS scrolling across the front porch. F*ck em
Bill Brasky
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Originally posted by: 1sikbITCH
I live in what I consider to be a middle-class neighborhood ($180,000 homes, nearly all owner-occupied) and even here everyone decorates in white lights... except for my house with the 8 ft tall polar bear and couple thousand green and red bulbs covering the front of the house and across the lawn down to the street, and the gyrating HAPPY HOLIDAYS scrolling across the front porch. F*ck em
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