Change

Peer pressure really gets to kids when they go to school. They see that some kids are wearing a certain type of brand or certain style of cloth and they also want to be cool like them. When I was in Juniors High I thought that Hollister was the best store in the world. I only thought that because so many people were wearing it in my school. It was so expensive but I didn't care because I wanted to be like everyone else. A simple t shirt was about 20 dollars when I could have gotten a similar shirt at another store for half the price. I was pretty much paying extra money to have my shirt say Hollister on it. I wasn’t really paying because at the time I was young and wasn't working. Every Sunday my dad would give us an allowance of 10 dollars and I would save it and at the end of the month I would go shopping. Not only would I spend my allowance money but once we were at the store I would beg my parents to buy my more cloth. All of my friends would buy that brand and I wasn't going to be the only one who didn't wear that. Now I look back and think it was all very immature. I was just following the crowd not thinking about how expensive it really was. Now I know the value of money and think twice about buying cloth that expensive. I know how hard it is to earn money and I'll rather spend it on something more useful. I still love to go shopping but now I think twice about buying something really expensive. I usually go shopping at Forever 21 now where the cloth is much cheaper than Hollister. I probably haven't bought anything from college since I started high school and I'm very proud of myself.