You remember the purchase you made as a young professional to tell the world you had made it?
Not your dream purchase, like a second home on the water, but the kind of purchase that felt expensive yet accessible at the time. The kind you put on your credit card because you can afford the monthly minimum payments, and you're not thinking about how much the purchase will ultimately cost with all that interest added over the years.
For me that purchase was a pair of Burberry cuff links. I got them from a Nordstrom Rack in Atlanta. I had not been that excited for a discount store find since I stumbled across a brand-new pair of red Levi's at a Goodwill on the east side of Detroit back in 1986. When I was growing up, if your family could afford a pair of colored Levi's, it meant you weren't broke. Even if you were.
