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This is going to make me sound positively ancient, I know. But I stumbled upon this article in the New York Times about some of the crazy locker accessories all the “cool kids” are buying forcing their parents to buy and I was blown away.
For instance: a $26 chandelier? I can buy one for my actual dining room for that much from Home Depot!
According to the NY Times:
At middle schools across the country, metal lockers that were long considered decorated if they had photos of friends or the teen heartthrob of the moment — Shaun Cassidy years ago, Justin Bieber today — have suddenly become the latest frontier in nesting.
Peek inside, and find lockers outfitted with miniature furry carpets, motion-sensor-equipped lamps that glow when the door opens, mirrors, decorative flowers, and magnetic wallpaper in floral and leopard-print patterns.
Click here to check out some of the outrageous stuff being marketed to tweens and teens.
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For a high school student, $150 is a lot of money. Whether earned at a job sandwiched between classes and homework, stored up after multiple birthdays, or even just collected, week after week, as an allowance, that kind of money doesn’t come easy to a teenager. Heck, it doesn’t even come easy to adults. So you can imagine that high school senior Tiana Rapp must have been rather upset when $150 went missing from her gym locker, despite the presence of an adult hall monitor.
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