As summer approaches, the urge to buy a new swimming outfit
made me take a quick trip to the nearby Target a few days ago and I ran across
a $40 bikini outfit that I was unable to put it down. The top was orange-red
with black polka dots and a small bow in the cleavage line and the bottom was a
normal bikini; the garment in the waste was three inches in length and the
butt cheeks could only be seen half-way when I tried it on. So I decided to buy the bikini outfit and the
receipt showed the total to be $42 with the regular price and tax included. With that I call it a bargain.
In late 2014, pop singer Taylor Swift released a new album called “1989”. The album won the Grammy award for best album
of the year recently and the tickets for her 1989 concert were sold out
within hours after they were available to the public. With her success, no wonder she makes
millions of dollars in a year in an industry that many, who want to succeed in
the entertainment arena like her, never had the opportunity.
Recently Taylor Swift posted Instagram pictures of herself
and boyfriend Calvin Harris vacationing in a tropical island. Miss Swift wore a $307 bikini outfit as she
posed for pictures with her butt cheek showing.
I could not recognize it was Taylor as she has always been elegant and feminine in
her skin-covered fashion and daily outfits.
But for the first time I saw that the sexiness in her pictures as
she posed in a picture with her back facing the camera while her face peaked
half way looking slyly at the camera. Her bikini outfit is made of laced
garments and compared to my own bikini outfit from Target, they look to have the same durable quality and the manufacturing process could have been the same. The only difference between my bikini outfit
and her outfit is the price tag.
Taylor Swift is reported to make $1 million in a day and
earned a total $284 million last year. She owned million-dollar mansions in New
York City, Nashville, and even in Los Angeles.
In another word, Miss Swift has all the money in the world to buy
anything she wants. However just because
a person has the money it does not mean that what he or she buys is worth it.
We don’t need to buy a $307 bikini outfit. Miss Swift has millions
of dollar in her bank account so there is no surprise that she spent so much
on clothing and plus, with a handsome and successful boyfriend such as world-known DJ Calvin
Harris, she has to spend on nice clothing to make good impression. Still I believe the $307 can be spent on
other more important things in life rather than the bikini outfit. The bikini that Miss Swift wore could have
cost her less than $50 if the manufacture is not a well-known brand (Miss Swift bought her bikini outfit from the brand For Love & Lemons).
The $307 can be spent on donating to National Public Radio
or the public library to promote education and the continuing of free news for the public, especially to the impoverished individuals in America; the money can be given to public
universities to promote stem cell and cancer research or provide scholarships for the
students who could not afford to go to college because of the outrageous tuition that American universities are known for. However the money is spent on, there are more
disadvantaged groups and more needy cause that can use the money to the
fullest potential.
Nike brand co-founder Phil Knight donated $400 millions to Stanford University in February with the purpose to prepare the next generation global leaders. It was the biggest donation ever made to Stanford in history. The donation's purpose was to change the world and Taylor could have done the same as well rather than to spend the the extravagant amount on a bikini outfit that she might only wear once or twice. Benjamin Franklin once said, "An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." When we spend money on knowledge, we get more out of it and the interest increases as we spend more on knowledge.
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