Am I the only one that doesn't quite get this thing the celebrites get called "swag"...?

Question

With the award season upon us you are constantly hearing about all the free stuff celebrites get, it's called swag. They get if they are a presenter, nominated, walking down the red carpet. And it's just not the award shows or season, they get this stuff all the time just for gracing some function with there presence. We are talking about thousands and thousands of dollars worth of stuff. Cars, jewelery,clothes,electronics,trips, etc...stuff that we, the everyday people can only dream about, but even more maddening, stuff that these people who get it can actually afford to buy for themseleves. I truly don't understand the reasoning behind this...a diamond necklace simply for walking down a red carpet, waving,smiling and probably thinking..."I just got $5000 worth of free stuff and I'm going to make millions off you guys I'm waving at when my next movie or record comes out"...hell I'd be smiling too...Does anyone else out there not quite get it?

Celebrities ask us to help the less fortnuate on a daily basis and I'm all for that. But wouldn't it be refreshing to see a star walk out with a $5000 gift bag and give it to someone who is truly in need. Or how about instead of taking the free stuff home with them, talk to the businesses who have put it together and ask them to donate the total cash amount to those in REAL need. And they could go one step farther by matching it. Can you imagine the money that could be raised from tomorrow night Oscars alone...

Maybe I'm being too hard on them. I have cancer again and they say this time it's terminal, I've searched high and low for treatments of any kind. Problem is the experimental ones,well my HMO just doesn't want to pay... Imagine that. LOL

Yeah, I could use a bag or two, but lucky for me I've got great family, friends and even total strangers that show up at the many fund raisers that have been thrown for me. It may not look it, but actually I'm truly blessed.

Yes I know this is really, REALLY, long but humor me...please Cause now I need someone out there to agree with me on this...cause if you don't, well then, that would mean I'm bitter about my what's happened to me. Which is why I'm asking you, total strangers, to please be brutaly honest with me, even if it's not something I would like to hear. Why,is this so important to me, cause I'd hate to spend what very well, could be the final precious months of my life a bitter and angry young woman. Wasting precious time thinking "poor, poor, pitful ole me"...I haven't lived that way, so it's totally unacceptable to go out that way...Understand?

Answer 1

It is completely wrong! It goes along with the culture of entitlement. It should not happen and if it does, any self-respecting millionaire should turn it down. Could we boycott the companies that participate? This is the last group of people who need or deserve such a gift. Make them pay for it themselves.

Answer 2

I do not get it either. But they have but a big tax on things like that so they have cut back on the SWAG (Stuff We All Get). I think that is funny that now they get about 400 dollars worth of stuff instead. (Which is still out of control.)