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To think this is crass and unnecessary?

41 replies

BlueCrystalM · 28/02/2018 23:37

Facebook related sorry.

Someone has posted a wad of money and titled it “holiday spends”

Hmm I just don’t understand what they are trying to prove.

No hate but it’s a package holiday to Tenerife.

OP posts:
araiwa · 01/03/2018 02:22

Who takes loads of cash these days anyway? Everywhere has an atm

I posted a pic of cash once. I was in vietnam and i was a cash millionaire. It was £40

Thisimmortalcurl · 01/03/2018 02:24

Ha ha , I’ll show off my disposal income 😂
However people almost always dumb down language on social media . “ spends “ doesn’t annoy me, lots of things do though.

BeverlyHillsBillie · 01/03/2018 02:28

I have a severe allergic reaction to stupidly abbreviated words and twee phrases.

They bring me out in a nervous tic.

IwantedtobeEmmaPeel · 01/03/2018 02:29

Yep crass and vulgar. Was it "loadsamoney". Tell him the eighties want him back.

Thisimmortalcurl · 01/03/2018 02:29

😃 I like you

KinkyAfro · 01/03/2018 06:26

Tenerife is beautiful, I go every year for a week or 2 in December

Helsingborg · 01/03/2018 06:31

Post a picture of Maggie Smith's Dowager Countess's timely put downs on facebook. It is incredibly crass but people nowadays have no sense of shame or decency.

apostropheuse · 01/03/2018 06:47

I was on a package holiday in Costa Adeje, Tenerife, in December. It was a lovely adults only hotel on the beach. I had a suite on the top floor with a beautiful sea view. I had a fabulous holiday.

Displaying wads of cash is very tacky, but nobody really knows how much of an achievement it was for them to save that amount of money. They may have been going through a stressful time and are very excited to be getting a break.

Personally, I just like to see people enjoying themselves; as long as it's not to the detriment of others, who cares how others display their happiness?

BeverlyHillsBillie · 01/03/2018 07:27

It seems like the sort of thing someone very young would do, especially if going abroad on holiday is a rare treat for them or something they haven’t done much, independently of their parents.

I’d hope a more mature person wouldn’t do anything so eye rolly.

bricksareheavy · 01/03/2018 07:36

No matter how much money was in the photo, it would have taken every ounce of my being not to comment:
oh...is that all you’re taking?” :/

Whall10 · 01/03/2018 07:41

I agree with the posting picture of cash bit. Don't see your point regarding holiday choice. You are coming across worse here I think.

LonginesPrime · 01/03/2018 07:47

Sounds like they're just excited and it's the novelty of having a large wad of cash that made them want to take a photo and post it.

I wouldn't post my life on fb but I understand lots of people do - this is the kind of thing I'd expect to see on there, tbh.

Sprinklesinmyelbow · 01/03/2018 07:48

Ha ha I would send a reply saying “haven’t you got a debit card?”

iLoveABiccy · 01/03/2018 07:53

Oh my God, I hate this. It's one thing that gets under my skin! Like, what are they trying to achieve by doing this, like "Well done you've saved up money for your holiday"?

TournesoletLavande · 01/03/2018 11:23

Is this a thing then ilove?

have you seen it done multiple times? Shock

GreatDuckCookery6211 · 01/03/2018 11:28

That's embarrassing. Some people are thick and don't think how something like that would come across.

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