Re cut: While I agree that Pottery Barn Poor is the same thing as Informed Poverty, if we want to cut this one (for having the less clear title) we need to get the wicks and examples sorted. It's not as simple as cutlisting and be done with it.
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It's been three years. Has this happened yet? Can Pottery Barn Poor be cut?
The Informed Poverty trope has been launched. Any word on whether we can lose Pottery Barn Poor?
I started a YKTTW titled "Informed Poverty". It covers a slightly broader range than Poverty Barn Poor so it can fit more examples. I'm thinking that when Informed Poverty launches, we can get rid of the Poverty Barn Poor entry, yes?
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OK, so 3-ish examples now. However I am curious as to the YKTTW results because at the moment it feels like we're splitting up the house, the food budget and the furniture parts of an overall trope.
The house part makes sense because the space is for the cameras and the filming set up; even in a convincingly done up "poor house", they'll need space.
However I say take this furniture trope and extend it a little. Have it cover all the furniture, commodities, perhaps everything as a supertrope, so that we don't end up having the trope for Absurdly Expensive Plasma TV for when TV families buy new plasma televisions, not to be confused with Too Many Holidays, my these people can afford a lot of vacations.
I must be a splitter by heart because even when admonishing those tropes I was inwardly thinking that they sounded like good ideas.
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I was wanting to re-YKTTW as Informed Poverty - a Character is implied to be poor, or on a very strict budget, but it never shows. This would be a supertrope of Improbable Food Budget. Their house is full of cool furniture, they always have money to go on trips, etc... I see no real reason to limit it to furniture, when the main trope can boil down to "Character is said to be on hard time financially, but its not shown"
Eitherway, while I think there is the beginning of a good idea here, this should be cut. The title is horrible (wtf is a Pottery Barn? Do they have those outside the US? Is this a rich store or a poor store?), and it's pointlessly narrow.
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Pottery Barn is a "rich store" that sells items that look rustic.
Items from the Pottery Barn look like the sort of things that could be handmade by a poorer person or handed down from an earlier generation. But they are not.
Pier 1 sells many of the same kinds of things. It's just that, if urban legend is correct, that's all Pottery Barn sells.
Or think of furnishing a house with the gift shop of a Cracker Barrel...
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Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Needs Help Badly
, started by Ghilz on Jan 14th 2011 at 11:04:55 AM
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