WELCOME TO THE NORTH SHORE CAN WE TAKE YOUR MONEY?

At my high school there are 4,201 students. I am lucky enough to live in a suburb north of Chicago and to top it off on a windy day you can hear the distant waves (a block away) from my school. I'm not here to tell you about how wonderful my high school is. I'm here to discuss the growing financial problem that hasn't even made a dent in my classmates minds. Like any high school there are trends but my high school is a little different and by a little I mean that the average girl spends around 2,000 dollars a year on clothes per season. That's not including special items such as prom dresses or graduation dresses those are around 1,000 together. UGG's those hideous shoes that celebrates wear when they pretend that LA is cold yes we wear those. Every shoe that they have are over $110 and there are around 600 girls that wear at least one pair to school thats over $66,000 just for shoes. Then we go to outfits cause heaven forbid you wear the same outfit twice in the same week! One pair of Silver jeans on sale can be around $20 but thats just one day and you cant wear jeans every day so you can wear a pair of Hard Tails which around 65 bucks for a nice pair. Then you have the shirts that each advisory makes which are personalized and collectors items in their own right. They cost around $25 if your making a shirt if your making a sweatshirt its $30. I am not saying I don't own these things because I do. I actually own all of it but what I am saying is that it is ridiculous how much we spend if you really think about it. I'm going to college next year, I can't afford these things any more and I'm getting a scholarship.

If your looking to live on the north shore I would absolutely do it because its beautiful and has a quaint small shopping districts but you can still go to the mall and depending on where you live you could be as close as 15 minutes away from the heart of the city. The schools are phenomenal, but if you have girls make sure that you can afford to either have them be mocked because they are a little different or pay up for them to get the clothes that they want. I used to be a little different my freshman year I had three friends and thats because a girl hated me and did every thing in her power to make me look bad. I changed myself to be more like the girls I go to school with and those girls that we all try to copy they don't even know what they want. It took me four years to be okay with what I wear but that doesn't change ones self esteem.