Not bad for a car, if you live in a place where the sun always shines and vajayjay steaming is the cornerstone of a universal health plan. The Lady Business guide is in another section, whereas “Ridiculous But Awesome” is where commoners may aspire to purchase an electric vehicle by Moke billed as known as “the official ride of GP’s wedding,” aka October’s Ridiculousness of the Month, for $16,975. Does Gwyneth have novel, new and medically questionable suggestions for giving Christmas cheer to one’s hoo-hah?Īlas, no. Then there’s the photo of a banana sporting a golden peel and some unidentified cylinder. “Be honest: This is why you’re here in the first place,” the winkety-wink subtitle reads, enticing the curious giver to click and marvel. Goop: The Ridiculous But Awesome Gift Guide Let’s break down the Naughty and “Most of Us Can’t Have Nice Things” of it all, shall we? On the upside, that means it’s very possible that in a few years, your town might be up for sale on Goop.Īn unintentional side effect is the various obscenely expensive, radically useless gift suggestions in this and other guides do the average consumer and Oprah a favor, in that they actually make Oprah’s Favorite Things look humble.Īnd yes, I’m fully aware that I’m taking about a list that includes a bottle of truffle-infused hot sauce. Income inequality has risen in nearly every state, the paper indicates. The Economic Policy Institute released a paper in July 2018 that indicated that top 1 percent of families took home an average of 26.3 times as much income as the bottom 99 percent - and those stats are from 2015. The only difference is that in 2018 they tell the story of our obscenely maximalist era better than any think piece could. the 1 percent, and the looky-loo 99 percent clicking, scrolling and drooling over items we don’t need but secretly wish we could afford, have always been around. Hyper-luxurious gift guides catering to the ultra-rich, i.e. However, Goop is far alone in constructing merry gift guides tilting toward eye-popping conspicuous consumption. Just imagine the level of screw-up or the grueling emotional labor the receiver has had to engage in requiring that level of largesse on the part of the giver. No doubt you have read about the listing of an entire village in Spain. Leap ahead to Holiday 2018, and it’s telling that the giftable items receiving the highest attention aren’t the 107 that have received the kiss of approval by The Oprah, but the obscene and ridiculous discoveries on Gwyneth Paltrow’s lifestyles-of-the-rich-and-clueless site Goop have been stealing all the sugar and spice as we plunge headfirst into the shopping season.
Goop holiday gift guide full#
Somebody else has already done the thinking for you.Ī year ago, we had terrific fun with Oprah’s Amazon-powered Favorite Things list and a few of its more sublimely laughable suggestions, topmost being a jar full of air simply waiting to be stuffed with papers listing #blessings, attainable for $45. With these gifts, it is the bank account that counts, not the thought. If we’re being honest with ourselves, though, these are gifts meant to gild the reputation of the giver as much as wow the receiver. Sure, it’s possible that those might come from the heart as well. On the other hand, there is the gift of real estate in Spain or bespoke adventures led by tennis pros or ex-special forces dudes or Colleen Atwood. Gifts from the heart are prized and priceless.
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