2nd hand Rose

OK, if you love to shop consignment shops raise your hand...OOOO. I LOVE consignment shops..nice ones. I abhor spending money on clothes. I can go to Lowe's and drop a $100 bucks and not bat an eye lash or a plant nursery...No issues. My husband thinks its tacky and tells me "Grammice I can afford for you to buy "decent" shorts/jeans etc. why go there?" Because, I can buy 4 "decent" pairs of shorts, blouses and some kind of something that catches my eye and spend less than $60! Also, I go to a very nice, very clean repeat shop.
I can pick up jeans for winter that someone else spent $70-100 on, made them comfortable and I pay $6-10 and don't have to deal with the "break-in" period. I have bought DKNY, Hilfiger, Talbots etc jeans & paid $8.! Now beat that. Kids clothes are cute, adorable and expensive between birth and 5, Hallelujah Consignment shop!!! Half the time they grow so fast they don't even get to wear some of their new clothes.
Don't get me wrong, Occasionally I will buy clothes at a store. But I have my limits. For a special to-do at my husbands' office last year we were told to wear semi-formal. OK, now I had to go to the store. I wear jeans, shorts, t-shirts to work, formal or dressy just doesn't work for me. Anyway, husband made me go to dept. store. Told him I wasn't gonna spend a fortune, maybe $30. He laughed told me to buy something decent AND shoes or he would send my neighbor with me & give her the check. Yeehaw. I took daughter, I bought a very nice calf length, chocolate colored w/lace layover and scalloped hem dress, brownish gold "hooker heels" at JC Penney for $35! The dress was $125 marked to 75% off & another 10% for weekend Sat. before noon sale. Shoes were on clearance for $6. Damn I'm good. Anyway, get home husband loves the outfit says I'm a hottie.

Monday, he goes to work, he gets an e-mail from the "Dinner coordinator":
"We have changed the dress code to dressy-casual for the Honors Dinner."
He didn't want to come home with that message, he really didn't want to tell me period let alone in person! When he did call, after I got home, my response was exactly what he thought after 28yrs together.

"WTF! Who's' brilliant F*&^&%# idea was this? Less than a week before the dinner! Its' Probably that stupid Bitch ###* she loves to shop and needs another outfit! AND WTF is "Dressy-casual" I'm wearing jeans & t-shirt, stupid asses."

Despite the rant which I'm sure he held the phone away from his ear he never said a word. Thank goodness I had been to "my consignment" shop and had just bought the cutest pair of DKNY jeans at top dollar $10.87. But I needed a nice blouse, back to the consignment shop. A Burgundy silk blouse with poofy sleeves. $3.25!!!
We went to the "Dressy-casual (held in a barn by the way) Honors Dinner" Everyone kept complimenting me on that "beautiful" blouse. Each time I just looked at husband. HA!HA! I win.

OK, this isn't the exact post I was going to do.....but I went to the consignment shop last night and bought 3 shorts, 6 shirts (2 for husband LOL) and this totally cool wrought iron leaf thing that was just the right style for over my french doors in the family room in a spot for 5 years I've been trying to put something. Paid $8. The husband even said it was nice.
So head to the consignment shop, buy cool stuff, then head home and put all that money you saved into something you really want or want to do, like go to Lowe's!