"Puti na ako!" everyone seem to be saying that. while Americans go gaga on skin-tanning, we, Filipinos, go loka on whitening (Dove campaign must have not effected much).
more Filipinos spend more on cosmetics nowadays. in fact, family expenditure on "personal care and effect" soared from 3.6 last 2000 to 3.9 on 2003. from 1988-97, it just averaged at 3.3. MET Tathione even ran out of stocks. TAKE THAT!
there are even more cosmetic stores like Watson in the city. well, i don't know the sales of umbrellas and sunscreen, but certainly there are more metrosexuals now.
only 3 basics plunged among top 10 expenses, of which... personal care and effect ranked #6. one is housing and rent. dwelling units just became cheaper. thanks to weaker dollar currency and U.S. housing bubble.
two and three are...TADAHHH!......food (43.6 to 43.1) and education (4.2 to 4.0).
trimming food and education is somehow understandable because they are more expensive, but trading them for more least-needed stuff is incomprehensible! well, I could, in some way, maybe...if only you are Tessa Prieto-Valdes.
hahay....conspicuous vanity!
I'm glad i have never MET!
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