>>. I said I have bought two Macs, half a dozen iPods, and half a dozen iPhones,
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>>Seriously? I can see someone buying 2 Macs....but a half dozen iPods and a half dozen iPhones???
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>Lots of replacements. Emily alone has broken two iPhones and had two others stolen. Well, technically one of them drowned when it fell out of her robe into the bathtub.

And you kept replacing them? Wow. I'm sure someone in another country is thinking this (I hear it quite often from my friends who come from other countries), so I'll go ahead and bite the bullet: Do they have an xbox, an hdtv, a Mac, and wear Hollister as well? :o) What happened to the liberals preaching share the wealth and sacrifice? Now I see why other countries call us spoiled greedy buggers with an entitlement mentality. America is raising children to have a sense of entitlement who grow into dependent adults.

Ok, that came off much ruder than I intended (I certainly didn't mean to imply your girls will grow into dependent adults) but I think you get my drift....you just wrote the stereotype up there....I didn't mean to sound personalized though...