Gwyneth Paltrow Shares Her Top Picks for Holiday Gifts

Pickles December 5th, 2008

I don’t understand why everyone gets on this website and complains about celebrities and their money. It is a celebrity site. Yes? I like reading about this stuff, it’s just fun fluff.

Maybe you should be looking for jobs and not reading about the lifestyle you can’t afford. Why are you huffing and puffing on a celebrity site if the economy is affecting you? Go complain to the goverment.

And if you are so broke stop paying your $40 internet bill and sell your computer to feed your own family, don’t complain that Gwyneth Paltrow should have to buy you things.

Its that sort of entitlement that got all of you in this position in the first place…Me me me, I deserve lots of things for no work and I’m going to buy a big house that I can’t afford and load up on credit card debt.

Cranky December 5th, 2008

Puleez. Her website is ridiculous, she is ridiculous. She has an overinflated sense of her own importance and is too dumb to know just how easy she’s had it and too ungrateful to appreciate it. Do I envy her, no. I think she’s a nitwit. Would I like her money..sure, who wouldn’t.

Do I normally dislike celebrities so much, no (I even like some actresses like Jennifer Garner or Cate Blanchett) but there is just something so hollow/entitled and just plain icky about Gwyneth. Sorry, truth hurts.

KMP December 5th, 2008

Pickles, (nice name) I like reading about this stuff too! I think that egomaniacal and out-of-touch celebrities are hilarious, and infuriating, and fun to criticize. But how criticizing obnoxious celebrities somehow suggests that a person is unemployed or unable to feed her family, or that finding oneself in either of those predicaments somehow denotes irresponsibility or laziness is extremely puzzling.

firedward December 5th, 2008

I don’t even know why we are infatuated with celebrities who obviously have no idea what life is in the real worl (most of them that is).

Mary December 5th, 2008

I definitely agree with Elizabeth about the idiotic posters on this forum. Instead of wasting time criticizing celebrities for their buying habits, they ought to put more energy and time in finding a job (or a better one) and/or improving their education/skills. If you are financially struggling, the person who has the most blame is yourself. I have no sympathy for the whiners on this forum. This is a CELEBRITY FASHION forum, for goodness sake.

Candy December 5th, 2008

Is she in touch with reality? Who is she writing this blog for because it’s not for the average Joe. Maybe she should make Goop exclusive to people just like her. She’s trying to come across as ‘normal and everyday’ but I haven’t seen any of that in any of her posts. This last one is too much.

Cranky December 5th, 2008

Wow that’s pretty ignorant on your part Mary. Even though I am not financially struggling, I can certainly empathize with people who are.

In your world, the family facing a health crisis or the single mother who is struggling because her husband just left her or died has only herself to blame. How about the person in the slums in India, have they only themselves to blame.

Speak truth about an overpaid, annoying celebrity and you call that whining. Interesting set of values you have there. Ugh, no wonder you like Gwynnie.

Candy December 5th, 2008

Woah there Mary. You sure do see life through a box. You seem to not know that even the middle class are suffering right now. How about the folks in the Hamptons who can’t sell their houses? There’s about 1% of people in America that can afford to spead money like Gwen. She puts out this blog knowing quite well that the foreclosure rates are at the highest level it’s ever been in decades and those who do still have their houses are struggling. I own my own business. I’ve been an entrepeneur for over 25 years and I’m hurting because everyone else is. To blame people’s financial woes on being uneducated is just dumb. Things happen. My husband died in a car accident 8 years ago and left me with two children but I’ve never been on welfare and that’s a blessing from God. How about some compassion and empathy for your fellow human beings who haven’t been as blessed? You and Gwen need to get your heads out of the clouds.

Mary December 5th, 2008

Cranky, all of those scenarios are avoidable or at the very least can be alleviated by those who are in them.

While I do sympathize with people’s suffering in general, I do not sympathize with people who complain about “overpaid” celebrities. They are just people who make more (and by more, I mean a LOT more) and thus are able to spend more. And this is a blog about celebrities, what they wear and what they buy. It’s fluff, but it’s fun. If you don’t like it, then DON’T READ IT. Why complain about what you can’t afford when you can be doing something else to improve your own fortunes?

Also, hoarding your money in these times is just about the worst thing you can do. The economy needs stimulation–if you’ve got money, spend it (but within your means).

sue December 6th, 2008

Stuck up cow, why don’t she and her religous nut of a husband just stop insulting our eyes with there horrible faces and noises.