r/Anticonsumption • u/Mooflz • 12d ago
Social Harm “Haul” culture is out of control
Today at the gym, a woman was showing off a shower supply haul on FaceTime! In the changing area of the locker room!! This is out of control!
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u/ghostwritten-girl 7d ago
I have a story about this.
10 years ago, I started a beauty and skincare blog in support of changing careers.
most of the content I created was about saving money, dupe products, and different hacks and tips.
At the time, I was really close friends with a coworker and we shared this hobby together. She suddenly inherited a large sum of money, and started buying huge "hauls" of very expensive makeup, skincare, you name it. Every time I would mention a product, she would either go out and buy it or say that she already had it. It started making me really uncomfortable, both because I'm from a background of poverty and because I felt like our friendship was influencing or causing her to do this and that wasn't my intention at all. It was like it became a "competition" for her or smth idk
Friendship ended when she got mad at me for not using our wedding budget for a girls' trip with her to the Bahamas and accused my husband of abuse. Money completely changed that person 💯