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Baby Bling: Are Luxury Pacifiers Too Much?

Parents can spend a lot of money on a child, but what do you think about buying your baby a gold or diamond encrusted pacifier?

Just when you think you’ve seen it all – a gold pacifier!

No, not a gold-colored pacifier – I mean a solid 24K gold pacifier. Or maybe you’d prefer a Swarovski pacifier covered in more than 700 stones. How about a $17,000 diamond encrusted pacifier?

Advertisers of these luxury items appeal to the wealthy, because seriously, who else could afford spending this much for an item that can be purchased for a couple of bucks, by encouraging them to show the world that they are spoiling their children because they can!

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At around $40 a piece, though they're much cheaper than their solid gold cousins, about 1,000 of these kind of pacifiers were voluntarily recalled in 2007 by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission due to the possiblly hazardous act of ingesting crystals.

So what do you think? If folks have the money, they might as well show the world how much they love their baby by having bling in their child’s mouth? Or do you think this is further proof that the world is going to heck in a hand basket and the wealthy should find something more useful to do with their money?

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