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04/30/11, 03:39 PM
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how come I can't ever find the good deals?
OK, I mean FOR me?
Last month, Walmart had shirts on clearance. Button down mens shirts, flannel and navy twill, just what DH likes and wears, 3$ each.
This week, I got 5 pairs of brand new Dickies carpenter pants from Walmart on clearance, in DH size, for 9$ a pair.
That man has more pants than anyone I have ever known, but for me? not.
Thrift store, I never find more than a few at a time that fit right. Never any on clearance anywhere. Maybe I am destined to never have more than 5 or 6 outfits at a time. Sheesh!
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04/30/11, 03:42 PM
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I'm with ya!
Hubby and the kids make a bet every time I go shopping for myself. They bet that I come home with stuff for them and not me. And they always win! LOL
found two shirts that hubby loves at Kohls on Monday for $2 each... while bra shopping. Never did find myself a bra. LOL
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04/30/11, 05:24 PM
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It's just the opposite for me. I can find things that I can use, though I don't need a lot, T shirts for summer work, sweatshirts for winter, a couple pair of work pants a year. I do find cotton T shirts for summer and the occasional shirt for DH but never any work pants. Never. And he needs the heavy Levis, Wranglers or Carhart type work pants which I never manage to find on sale.
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04/30/11, 07:22 PM
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I think the dickies were a lucky find. usually he just gets jeans at the thrift store. they usually last the season. as in the hay season (6 weeks or so). or the winter in the shop season. by then, they have been soaked in degreaser one too many times and are cut up for shop rags.
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04/30/11, 08:59 PM
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lonely, that stinks. I think after all that good frugal living you have earned yourself a nice piece of clothes that IS NOT on sale.
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04/30/11, 09:07 PM
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U need your Karma adjusted.
Here's what u do - leave your wallet, cash, debit card in the car better yet at home.
Then go shopping your sure to find deals up that ying yang on every rack.
Simular to when you just run into the grocery store without grabbing a cart since yoru just in there for a gallong of milk then you pass the butcher who is crazy with the discout stickers.
~~ pelenaka ~~
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04/30/11, 09:27 PM
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You need to get thyself to the nearest large metro and do your shopping there. Thrift shops by the score, yard sales by the hundreds, good estate sales by the dozen each month, etc. Small towns have sucky resources for this type of thing.
Get to the nearest place with a couple of million people and your chances of good deals will improve. Of course, there are days where there is nothing you want, but other days where you take home a carload or two.
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04/30/11, 09:32 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by lonelyfarmgirl
OK, I mean FOR me?
Last month, Walmart had shirts on clearance. Button down mens shirts, flannel and navy twill, just what DH likes and wears, 3$ each.
This week, I got 5 pairs of brand new Dickies carpenter pants from Walmart on clearance, in DH size, for 9$ a pair.
That man has more pants than anyone I have ever known, but for me? not.
Thrift store, I never find more than a few at a time that fit right. Never any on clearance anywhere. Maybe I am destined to never have more than 5 or 6 outfits at a time. Sheesh!
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start wearing mens pants they are cheaper and better made
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04/30/11, 09:33 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by lonelyfarmgirl
I think the dickies were a lucky find. usually he just gets jeans at the thrift store. they usually last the season. as in the hay season (6 weeks or so). or the winter in the shop season. by then, they have been soaked in degreaser one too many times and are cut up for shop rags.
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You need to get hubby a pair of chaps to wear during hay season. Makes pants last a whole lot longer, something I found one day at the thrift store was a pair of hunting pants, they have a nylon covering on the front of the legs, making hay won`t wear them out. > Thanks Marc
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04/30/11, 09:40 PM
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Girl, you need to start wearing men's/boy's clothing! They are much more comfoterable, and reasonable in the waist area. Price cuts help, I get lots of goodies in boys size 14.
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04/30/11, 10:34 PM
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I actually did try them on. they were a couple sizes too big. The problem with me and boys or mens pants is the zippers are 6-8 inches long. I can't deal with that. Waist at my belly button. No thanks. I have to have lower cut pants.
The thrift store I go to is in a bigger town. population maybe 65K? the thrift store there is huge and awesome.
The problem with me and nice clothes, is for one, I hate to shop, and for two, I tear everything to pieces. I do have a few nice outfits for wearing away from here. That is fine. I need DO clothes, and lots of them.
I wear expensive shoes. thats my frivolous clothes purchase. I have to have decent shoes. I'm a super picky shoes freak. Not fancy ones, good ones.
Yard sales are awesome. My current 'town' shoes I got at a yard sale for a quarter.
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05/01/11, 06:11 AM
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aka RamblinRoseRanc :)
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And men's jeans have MUCH bigger pockets. Seeing as my purse is a Ariat grooming bag (that's right, to be taken to the barn full of grooming supplies) and I hate toting a purse, everything I need goes in my pockets.
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05/01/11, 09:36 AM
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Murphy was an optimist ;)
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Quote:
Originally Posted by lonelyfarmgirl
OK, I mean FOR me?
Last month, Walmart had shirts on clearance. Button down mens shirts, flannel and navy twill, just what DH likes and wears, 3$ each.
This week, I got 5 pairs of brand new Dickies carpenter pants from Walmart on clearance, in DH size, for 9$ a pair.
That man has more pants than anyone I have ever known, but for me? not.
Thrift store, I never find more than a few at a time that fit right. Never any on clearance anywhere. Maybe I am destined to never have more than 5 or 6 outfits at a time. Sheesh!
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I seldom pay more than 9 bucks for a pair of jeans.... new. but then I am a guy and not quite as picky about cuts, or styles as is my Yvonne. She has terrible time buying things that "fit". of course, the word fit has an entirely different meaning to her than it does to me. If they cover me, and I can get them on and they are cheep... they fit! LOL
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