Long lunch!

[vanillafluffy]

We may elect to extend our lunchbreak to an hour, and I've gotten into the habit of doing so on Fridays. I wandered over to You-Know-Where...because Goodwill gets good stuff all the time, and it's been four whole days since I was there last.

I nobly resisted the call of a white, 80's jacket that was begging me to pimp it. I put back the suede moccasins and the Brevard Zoo baseball cap.

However, the leopard-print velour Mary Janes with three-inch foam platform heels are mine, all mine, bay-bee! I saw them on the shelf, and went, "Whoa, cool." Picked them up to look at the size out of morbid curiousity, saw that they were 11s and could hardly get my sneaks off fast enough to try them on. Oh, yes! I am going to rock those puppies like crazy!

I figured out why they got sent to Goodwill in the first place---the left sole (sole in this case being a pad of textured rubber that covers the bottom of the foam platforms) was lifting up around the edge. I brought them home and broke out the household cement...it's currently resting with a binder clip squeezing the two glued surfaces together.

Now I just have to create the rest of the outfit.

And get pix for you-all....

Comments

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

I love reading about your adventures in rediscovered fashion, being a great lover of second-loved myself.

I have a lovely pair of plain black low heels (I call them my funeral shoes) that were thrifted for separating soles. Kiwi Brand Shoe Goo is a wonderful thing and I've gotten years out of those shoes.

When the boy was small, it was very difficult to find him shoes, as he has long, thin feet and, due to his brain problems, could not tie shoelaces until he was nine. So when I found him velcro-strap sneaks that fit, I kept them going forever with Shoe Goo patches on the soles.

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

I've become conscious lately (not self-conscious, just aware) of how much of my wardrobe has been acquired through non-traditional, non-retail means. Not all of it, but definitely the greater proportion! I think only socks and underwear fall into the category of not-previously-owned...and even then, most of my bras came from eBay or a friend of a friend.

(I'm sorry, was that TMI?)

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

Oh, no, not TMI. My motto is a couple of capfuls of old-fashioned Lysol liquid concentrate in the wash water will sanitize anything! :) About the only things I insist must be new are underwear, socks and swimsuits. (I swim a lot in the summer -- it's my only sport.) I don't even look for nightwear because I wear old fashioned cotton jammies and they never turn up. Because I'm so short, I can find a better range of petites in a thrift shop than in almost any store.

When the boy was teeny, one of my aunts worked in a second-hand shop, and she'd call me to let me know when they had a bunch of children's clothes and shoes come in. He wore second-hand (or made by Mom) from head to toe until he was around 14. Boys become so hard on their clothes that the supply just dries up in the early teens, although I can still find very nice dress shirts for his piano recitals second-hand.

A few years ago, I went shopping with a friend while she bought fall clothes for her son. She spent $700 for a week's worth of clothes -- that did not include shoes and a coat. I actually got dizzy watching that, as I don't think I'd spent half that much on ten years worth of wardrobe for my kid.

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

I completely understand where you're coming from when you talk about the $$$ some parents spend on their kids. I'm exposed to this constantly at work, and I'm still amazed. I've never in my entire life owned a pair of shoes that cost three figures---and momma and daddy are coughing up another $50 for express shipping so junior will have his new Fit-nazi soccer shoes in time for The Big Game next weekend---meanwhile, the kid is pitching fits in the background because shoe A is sold out and they have to settle for shoe B. Ungrateful little beast!---and you just KNOW he'll outgrow it in six months and have to repeat the process next year. Then to match spending that on him, his sister gets $200 worth of stuff from Trendicrap...$200 will go a long way at Goodwill!

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

I think I'd salt and eat the cash, one dollar bill at a time, before I'd spend three figures on shoes. The most I ever spent on a pair was close to $60 on some running shoes when I working out regularly. And I kept them going for years with new insoles.

My former next door neighbor, at a time when her water was being cut off for non-payment and she couldn't buy groceries, dropped $100 bucks on a pair of K-Swiss sneakers for her son so he wouldn't feel left out at school. I was completely gobsmacked. Common sense would dictate that not being able to shower or eat breakfast would be a greater hardship than not having cool shoes. You gotta wonder.