Dear Santa, I want money and an eating disorder...

[sarisataka]

'Dear Santa' sign stirs up controversy at local department store
Katie Johnson
5:38 PM, Nov 10, 2014

A holiday decoration is making its rounds on social media, and it's not for a good reason.

A sign that reads "Dear Santa, this year please give me a big fat bank account and a slim body. Please don't mix those two up like you did last year. Thanks," was spotted in the girls' section of the Dillard's store at the Mall at Wellington Green last Friday night.

A mother of three spotted the sign while shopping with her kids. She posted it on her Facebook page and since then it's been shared nearly four hundred times.

"It's kinda funny because a woman who wants to wish for that should make it happen for herself," says Sally Stewart. She was shocked to hear about the incident. "What would a little girl want with a bank account? It gives the wrong message about having a slim body. That's not the message we want to give our kids," Stewart says.

http://www.wptv.com/entertainment/television/thenow/dear-santa-sign-stirs-up-controversy-at-local-department-store
Don't people in marketing ever take a moment and ask themselves, 'is this a good idea'?

UPDATE: Dillard's has now directed all stores to completely remove the sign from the sales floor.

So apparently this 'joke' was not a local store but spread throughout Dillard's 299 stores

[LiberalEsto]

1. When I was a little girl, I had my own savings account

Birthday and Christmas money, babysitting money, everything went into it and collected 5% interest a year.

By the time I got to college in 1969, my savings account held close to $400. This enabled me to buy a great used car from my psychology professor, then register and insure it.

My father, when he found out about my car, nearly blew a gasket. In his immigrant worldview, women weren't supposed to drive, let alone own cars. I had to get my driver's license secretly, with the help of a friend. I needed the car in order to work at an off-campus job,

Little girls definitely do need bank accounts. Money in the bank can be a ticket to independence.