We are bombarded with the importance of image and societal class every day of our lives. The way a person looks is often placed above their values and it is reinforced by compliments and feelings of false self-esteem.
People buy $25,000.00 Rolex watches on credit so people will view them as high class citizens. Hence they can look down on another for not wearing name brands. I am perplexed by this and find it to be the most ridiculous aspect of life. From $500.00 haircuts to thousand dollar shoes, people are all about their image.
I saw an advertisement for some website that rents designer purses to women yesterday and laughed uncontrollably; I literally almost passed out. I’m sorry, but that is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard in my entire life. What kind of person would rent a purse? Who would even know that it was so great anyway?
I’ve known guys who rented sports cars to impress a girl on a hot date (not me!) - but purse rental? If a woman rents a purse it will not impress a man. Men don’t notice purses or what brand of clothes a woman wears. It would only be to impress other women or just to make themselves feel important.
Imagine this: I see a woman with a fancy handbag, walk up and say,”What a beautiful purse! Let me guess - it’s a custom shop Gucci - no, it’s a Louis Vuitton! Is it a rental, or did you buy?”
As absurd as that sounds, it would probably be a great opening line (except for asking if it was rented) for someone into superficiality. If I dated a woman with a rented purse, would I need a matching rented wallet? Where can I rent some designer underwear? You never know when you’ll need these items!
So I’m standing there, looking filthy rich in my rented Jean Paul Gautier suit. Behind me is my rented Porsche and people standing downwind can smell the delicious aroma of my overpriced Creed Bois du Portugal cologne. I step forward in my rented, $1500.00 Testoni
Norvegese shoes and pray someone important notices how cool I am - if only for a second.
“Please God, someone notice my opulence…my swagger…my richness! Look at me you poor fools - wearing your $12.00 Wal-Mart sneakers and your $5.00 t-shirts. SOMEBODY PLEASE LOOK AT HOW RICH I AM!”
In the midst of my conniption fit, a dirty piece of trash pickup truck drives by, splashing a tidal wave of grotesque mud all over my wealthy attire. I scream, “You scumbag piece of human dirt…how dare you!”
I cannot bring these soiled clothes back to the rental store; I will have to actually buy them. I took out a high interest loan just to rent them - now, I’ll probably lose my apartment and have to move into a poor neighborhood. What on Earth will I do?
I see a rich man step out of a Rolls Royce, noticing a thick wallet in his jacket pocket. I run at him in a ferocious rage, “Give me your wallet fool…I gotta pay my bills!”
A poor street thug sporting a gold chain and drinking Bling-Bling Blue Raspberry wine blows my head off with a shotgun - my blood sodden brains splatter across my rented porsche. Yes…redemption…and I die in style.
If you’re wondering, there actually is Bling-Bling wine. I used to manage a liquor store that serviced a poor area, inundated with crack head wino’s. Mogen David 20/20 wine is a traditional, high alcohol wine affectionately known as “mad dog”. With a stroke of business genius, they decided to capitalize on America’s love affair with gang culture and put a fake gold chain sticker on the bottle and named it “Bling-Bling”. Hahahahahahahaha! People came in the store in droves saying, “Yo…gimme some of that bling-bling…hell yeah, that’s what I’m talkin’ ’bout!” I still have trouble believing that people actually bought this stuff…now that’s American.
[...] Bobby Revell has written an interesting post, Rent Yourself A New Image, saying that “the way a person looks is often placed above their values and it is reinforced [...]
Bobby, about 25 years ago I worked in a bar where we couldn’t keep the “Mad Dog” in stock! The clientele there loved the stuff!
Love your post, I have seen that rental site for the purses as well, but because I used to sell on ebay I know firsthand how rabid women can be about purses and shoes. I’m a “one black purse” kind of girl, but there are some women for whom designer purses are an addiction!
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Hi MP, I guess I just don’t get it. I can’t even watch the Academy Awards anymore because of questions like, “Who are you wearing?”
Narcissism and decadence are the product of letting money rule people’s lives. It’s so ridiculous, all I can do is shake my head. I’ve had my share of Mad Dog as a teen and sold thousands of bottles. It’s truly a marketing phenomenon and has made tons of cash….and is still unbelievable
Hi Bobby,
Now this post started off serious, but then you had to make me laff with the Bling-bling wine and blood sodden brains. You are truly a master of the liquid alliteration!
I would much rather buy a video about fools who think being rich means livin’ large. Actually, there are a few that portray the real meaning of rich.
Here are two contrasts in my video library to explain my point:
King’s Ransom (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388183/)
Last Holiday (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0408985/)
When you think about it for a minute, there’s a whole spectrum of videos that portray money in all of it’s good vs evil glory:
Boiler Room vs Fried Green Tomatoes
Two for the Money vs Trading Places
Scarface vs The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0406158/)
Cheers!
Mitch
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Thanks Mitchell! Nonetheless, I find it highly entertaining. I’ve known so many people who completely revamped their personalities once they had big money - including their friends and families. They say things like, “I have money now…you wouldn’t understand.”
Haha…I don’t want to either
I say live and let live. Evolution has given us the ability to tolerate, and tolerate we must. Even if they are idiots.
Haha…very true Reformed Smoker!
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The problem with image is in how other people look at you. Not buying fancy things isn’t the actual solution; the solution has to start with people not judging character on the basis of those fancy things.
The sad thing is that, for example, people will treat a man wearing a suit differently from a man wearing jeans and a t-shirt. Likewise, people “in the know” will treat a man wearing an expensive suit differently from a man wearing a less expensive one.
There is some truth in that you must “dress for success.” As ridiculous as it is, I see incompetent people all the time getting high paying jobs when more qualified people don’t get those same jobs. And the difference is in perception, which is often wrong.
But, despite it being so often wrong, people still fall victim to it. And, as long as people continue to judge others by their clothes and accessories, other people are going to have to “invest” in such articles just to get by.
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Hi DCR! Unfortunately, people do have to dress for success. I used to sell cars at one time and the sharpest dressed salespeople were usually the most successful. In most cases, these people usually ripped customers off more than most everyone else. I know better and will only buy a car from the most poorly dressed person because I’ll get a much more honest deal - as ridiculous as that may seem.
Television and other forms of entertainment reinforce these shallow behaviors. I have just as much respect for a garbageman as I do a brain surgeon
What a freakin’ hilarious read, buddy
The whole premise of this would actually make a for a pretty awesome little short film. Of course you’d need a nice little budget to rent all that stuff 
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Haha…Thanks Mike…I’m glad you liked it! With a low budget, you have to make up for it with crazy stories and intensely freaky characters. Million dollar budgets can’t save 90% of today’s movies. Hold on…I think that’s ABC Rental at the front door coming to confiscate my rented computer
Your comment didn’t go through Zubli!
Rent Yourself A New Image???
I use Crayola Wild Blue Yonder to color my Image Under the Sea!
This saves me the 3 tons of silver dimes you spend on colloidal silver injections!
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I think you’re a secret agent working for the one’s known as “they”. I see right through your code language and though you may have a waxed, blue tongue…I can can see the truth with my FBI night vision
Shh… Financial Blue Investigation (FBI) is a secret that only Dolphin Danger Rangers know the meaning of.
The FBI is So Secret that dolphins drink blue dolphin martini potion elixers to safeguard the the code language of secret posts. “They” will never be revealed by me
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But I have a blue tongue Debbie…I mean Dolphin Danger Ranger Debbie…and it’s not from a blueberry lollipop
Well, if the phrase “Perception Is Reality” every held any water, it’s wrapped up entirely in your post.
Let’s go on the theory that what you wrote is true. That it doesn’t matter what one wear’s, no one notices anyway. It’s hard for me to agree, because people really do notice. They want to see people higher then themselves, as it gives them a goal to chase after. One can call that shallow, and that’s fine.
Again, “Perception Is Reality”, people enjoy watching YouTube videos with people acting like morons, because they don’t see themselves as morons. It lifts them up to know there are people out there worse off then they are. Hense why the Jerry Springer show was so popular.
So, it works both ways. People want to see people better then they are, so they have something to strive for. And they want to see people worse then they are, so they can breathe a sigh of relief, knowing things aren’t as bad as what other people are going through.
What theory are you talking about? This is a comedy post.
Are you wearing a rented suit? 
Yes I know… I thought you could see the comedy in what I wrote as well.
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Haha!!! Thanks Jeremy! Your site has some really hot babe pictures and I’d definitely rent a suit…and a car…and even designer socks for one of them
well, the designer socks are the tipping point you see. Anyone can rent a suit and a car, but it takes real balls to rent socks.
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As long as they are 100% pure lambswool handmade by Italian designer Gianni Versace
only the best will do
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Are you eating smurfs again for Gargamel?
No, but I did eat an entire box of Fruit Loops without milk, right out of the box like they were Cracker-Jacks
hi bobby i was so much happy to see your comment on my latest post i admired the way u faught negativity very good i also been through depression we all do ….and blogging was one of the things that changed me and made me better if u notice my blog’s name is feel happy i started that blog for one reason is to learn how to be happy and share the others how to feel happy
this post is interesting and renting purses made me laugh ive never heard about that b4 for me a woman that rent purses or whatever to impress a guy or a guy that rent an expensive sport car or whatever both of them are narrowminded and have no self-confidence liking someone depends on how your inner beauty coz this lasts 4ever
and the people that cant afford luxury and take loans or go for debts are really fools sorry to say this coz they lie to themselves and to others they live lives of millionaires and they r not
see ya again
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Hi Lili, It’s really nice to see you! It’s very difficult for most people to have happiness especially in a world full of problems, but it is possible. Getting a visit from you has brought me a big smile
Morning Bobby! I wouldn’t want to rent a purse, a cute kitty cat perhaps, but purse?
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Hi Marzie! Can I rent Phoebe for next weekend? Hehe…I bet she’s a lot of fun!
In Chicago the cops drank the 20/20 more than the crackheads, and strangely enough the inner city ghetto areas had the best soul food, barbecues, best huge gulf shrimps, and fish fries. Come to think of it back in the 1960’s being square was not hip. I wonder how that image is today in right wing monoplized america?
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I know I sold a lot of liquor to cops when in that store. One time, I had three guys attempted to rob me and it took the police 45 minutes to get there. I learned not to depend on them
You forgot to mention boone farm wines that the white kids in the suburbs dined on!
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Mad Dog is definitely knows no race as I had plenty of white people drinking it. I’ve had my share of Boone’s Farm too!
Do you know that the secret to be rich is to buy non-branded stuff?
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Haha…if only everyone knew that! I think wearing clothes is overrated anyway
HAHAHAHA! Great writing Bobby! I buy really cheapo purses that fall apart too often. I’m queen of cheapo. Maybe I should rent a big ole fancy purse. I want one with your head on it.
I agree 100% with Zubli’s comment above as well.
Hey Bobby, I’d love your take on this big awards debate. I want to do a rebuttal on this guy’s post so bad, but I don’t think I could do it justice. You game?
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I want to start a purse rental business Paula! I bet those places make a killing, especially on late fees and repossessions. Could you imagine being a purse rental repo-man? That would be a dangerous job
I’ll go check that site out to see what the discussion’s all about! 
Hmm… Why would a Silver-tongued Blogger color his tongue blue with Fruit Loops?
Maybe, you are a secret silver double Under-the-Cover Agent for “They” ???
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Hi Debbie! No…it’s because I am a fruit loop
Dear Bobby Revellian, my earlier comment did not go through eh? It is okay, I overshooted. Is it, either in Polliwog’s purse, hehehehehe, or it jumps out to Phoebe’s new birthday home at Mesra Marzie Marvelous Mariuca. LOL!!! Just kidding, girls. Well, Bobby Revellian, when I look at your avatar, and reread your post, *Rent Yourself A New Image*, I know you are a giver par excellence. So spicy. Proactively spicy, I might add. (I click, see if this one emerges, else I rest…Hehehehe!!!)
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Ho Zubli, I guess Polli got it! I was born with a jalapeño pepper in my mouth
Wow, rent a purse. How vain and fake would you need to be to actually do that? And for what, as you say a guy’s not going to notice.
Reminds me of the joke about how does a guy impress a chick? Takes her out to romantic dinners, buys flowers and chocolates, etc etc. How does a chick impress a guy? Show up naked.
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I guess some people believe they walk on the red carpet when they eat at McDonalds! Thanks Ian
This is so ridiculous… first time I heard of renting a purse too. I would rather use a cheaper brand but still own the purse…. haha….
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Hi Janice! If you buy a designer purse…you could rent it out while not using it…haha
Bobby Revellian, Ladies and Gentlemen, now I wanna rent a purse!
!!! Where can I rent one? Err, why? Well, 
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I just so happen to rent them out Zubli…$250.00 per day, but I’ll need your credit card and five references
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Ha ha, thanks for that one, Bobby!
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Haha…I’m glad you liked it Aaron! I’m here for all of your rental needs
Hahahahahaha! Yes, Hahahahahahaha again!!!
Now I know. Bobby Revellian, I have been looking for a business joint venture, just to keep me busi for 2008. Earlier I thought of asking Genie Princess if I can rub shoulder with her to do perfumerynizationness, for we can be merry together, with Phoebe too. Now, I can see and semell the ROI, dear purse. No wonder I now understand Polliwog. 
So ladies and gentlemen, *purse rent* anyone? Just $ 500 per day. 
Please produce credit card and ten references amongst the already purse rent lovers! 
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That’s right Zubli! I must protect my investments…these are designer products…haha