I wear $100.00 clothes (long)

[RecoveringKinkoid]

I have a very nice wardrobe. It looks like I spent a lot of money on it. I didn't. I know how to shop. I am a great haunter of clearance racks. I am also not too good to wear second hand stuff.

And I don't care about brand names or designers. If someone wants me to advertise for them, then they have to pay me. I am not interested in wearing someone else's name on my butt, my chest, or my purse. I never buy anything I don't absolulely love. It has to fit perfectly, and it has to flatter. I want smooth seams, good fabric, attractive cuts.

I have garments I paid 12 bucks for that look better on me, have held up better, and are higher quality than some I paid 40 for.

All that woman is saying by proclaiming that she only wears expensive clothes is that she is a sucker with poor judgement and an over inflated idea of her own worth.

[Pinkie]

That's hilarious. In my experience, it's the people who throw around how much money they have that don't pay their bills.

Working in the call center, I've learned how true this statement is. I get lawyers, doctors, entertainers who call bitchin' about us turning off thier service... Pay your damn bill if you've got so much damn money!! And don't friggin' whine to me about paying a deposit and reconnection fee!! You can afford it more than some poor smuck who's living paycheck to paycheck. I've found that the more money they have the bigger a$$holes they are, and the more they will whine and threaten you with a lawsuit....bring it on dude....our lawyers would love to talk to your lawyers!!!!

[protege]

Maybe she meant her entire wardrobe combined cost $100!

If that's the case, she probably overpaid

Money doesn't impress me much, mainly because most of the people who have it are rude assholes. Take my college roommate. This guy's family supposedly was loaded, yet the only car he could afford was a Chevy Cavalier (not trying to slam Cavs here--just this one, since it was a bent, rusty POS!) that had been "salvaged" from a local scrapyard. Yeah, read that line again--he's supposedly worth a bit of cash, yet drove a shitbox.

But, it got better. He made claims that his family made their cash in the cattle business...yet nobody that I knew in the business ever heard of them. Even if they did, the cattle business is a tough one. It's not cheap, and can be seriously expensive--some of those animals cost more than my car! Soooo unless they were *extremely* lucky, there was no way they'd be as well off as he claimed--most guys I know do it as a sideline or as a hobby.

You thought that was it? Because this twit made all these claims, he was constantly pissing people off. Most people at school couldn't stand him.

[Jester]

Money doesn't impress me much, mainly because most of the people who have it are rude assholes. Take my college roommate.

This does not sound like a case of a guy who has money and is a rude asshole braggart, actually. This sounds more like a guy who is lying his ass off to try to impress people, and is also a rude asshole to boot. Just my 3.5 cents (inflation).

[georgiab]

I just want to say to everyone who responded I was feeling quite down about the whole event but ya'll made me feel ALOT better and quite a few of you made me laugh! By the way I agree that thrift stores are awesome!!

[Sofar]

And it occurs to me: why would anyone be embarrassed about shopping at a thrift store when the only people looking are also shopping at a thrift store?

[workerbee222]

Old money doesn't usually talk about their wealth. New money usually feels the need to remind others how much better of they are than those around them.

My college chum's dad repaired TVs in the resort areawhere they lived. Very wealthy men would come in and talk about fishing. Not-so-wealthy came in and talked about how much money they had.

[friendofjimmyk]

I just want to say to everyone who responded I was feeling quite down about the whole event but ya'll made me feel ALOT better and quite a few of you made me laugh! By the way I agree that thrift stores are awesome!!

That's why I love this site!

[friendofjimmyk]

And it occurs to me: why would anyone be embarrassed about shopping at a thrift store when the only people looking are also shopping at a thrift store?

True, so true!

[DGoddessChardonnay]

WTF was her problem? I freaking love thrift stores (well most of them) :-)

One time when I was a child I went into a thrift store with my grandfather. He was a member of a church with some very, very "ritzy" people. He spotted this church lady in there... and she knew he saw her, so she tried to hide behind a rack of clothes. It was hilarious.

OMG, it's that Bucket woman

[Ree]

This reminds me of when I've told people their credit cards have been rejected and they started screaming about how I shouldn't say that where other people can hear it

Well, you should be discreet about things like that.

Yeah, it's their fault they have a problem with their credit at the moment, but it could be for any number of reasons, so why embarrass them?

I am always very careful to be respectful as I quietly ask if they have another form of payment, then tell them that their card cannot be processed, and they need to contact their bank or credit card company.

No reason why everyone else in line should hear their business.

As for the thrift shop lady, she was obviously "putting on the dog" as my aunt always said. (I have no idea where the expression came from, but it means putting on a show to impress others, pretending to be something you aren't.)

My niece works at a thrift store, and they aren't allowed to shop there during store hours. The reason is that the staff ends up cherry picking the really good stuff for themselves.

If she sees something she just has to have, she will call home and describe what the item is, and have somebody come in to pick it up.
She's so cute as she tries to pretend she's focused on her work, but giving signals that her errand person is picking up the right thing.

[protege]

This does not sound like a case of a guy who has money and is a rude asshole braggart, actually. This sounds more like a guy who is lying his ass off to try to impress people, and is also a rude asshole to boot. Just my 3.5 cents (inflation).

That's why so many people couldn't stand him. No matter what anyone else did/had/accomplished/etc. he always had to "one-up" them. Of course this was also the guy who blindly challeneged a friend of mine to a drag race...and promptly got his ass handed to him. Straight-six 'Benzes will do that to Cavaliers

Trust me, when my roommate dropped out of college, there was *much* rejoicing. He was hated that much. Oh well, at least he had more time to spend with his 14-year-old girlfriend ....since he couldn't land someone his own age