Newsweek has unveiled some remarkable numbers for lifetime maintenance for an American woman.
We certainly know that in many countries just having enough money for bread is serious dough -- so this has to be for a western woman, not living in a super expensive metropolitan area. Sorry for the intentional pun!
From almost $7200 as a tween (not my tweens, LOL) to almost $218,000 inclusive of the decade for a woman 50 yrs older and above, their lifetime figure is almost half a mil.
Makes me glad that for a high maintenance woman I'm low maintenance and that my latest haul from Fyrinnae ran me $26.
Puts it in perspective!
Looking at their figures for hair, for example, they aren't super high. Many salons cost a lot more than they are figuring, and of course, many women color their own hair, so that figure drops considerably.
There's an error in their table where they reversed hair and face for the 50-75 year old. You find that by rolling over the info box. Makes their figures off kilter at the end.
They include Botox, fillers, eye brows, lip plumping (no thank you) dermabrasion (only until age 70 -- wonder why that is?!), cosmetics (at $100/mo) (but nothing budgeted for women 50-75) (hmmmm) (obviously there are some flaws)...
From the 30's-40's the figure is $108,660. (20 year span)
50's and over the figure is $169, 274. (25 yr span)
And if you factor in hands and feet -- which is likely low for many women who get fills every two weeks, not 6 times a year, unless that is only for pedicures. Many women get pedicures monthly.
Gulp.
They do not include lipo or breast augmentation.
Well, that's good, LOL!
OK, seriously...does this make you feel better?
And let's not forget wardrobe, which is not included in those figures. Want to hazard a guess at what Michelle Obama spends on clothes right now?
And have any of you seen recent pictures of Faye Dunaway? (She was recently in a Nora Roberts romance movie.) What do you think?
At what point do we decide we have to do something -- or choose not to -- and what if we chose/choose, but are not happy with the results. I think we should all move out of country at some point. Wanna go with me?!
Karin
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