Sep. 5, 2008
Not for the Serious Minded Reader
Posted in Just Ramblin
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Okay, you were warned in the Title, this is not for the serious reader. And yet, there is an element of seriousness about it. If you've seen the movie, The Wedding Planner, you'll understand that the new favorite line around our house is, "You saved. . . . my shoe." If you haven't seen it, you just won't appreciate the rest of the post in it's entirety. My daughter is developing an addiction to shoes. Now, I really wouldn't mind, if they were practical shoes she was actually going to have many occasions to wear. But these shoes.... Today she bought 4 pair of evening/prom type shoes -- remember please here, we live in rural (read the woods or hicksville) New England. We need things like LL Bean Boots 3/4 of the year, just to be practical. The dressiest place we go is church, and Bean Boots are standard issue for this about 6 months out of the year, as well. No real need for one pair of cute little black strappies, (which she already owned) never mind four more pair of these types of shoes. Oh, her behalf, at least she did buy them to match the three formal dresses she has in her closet, which she really has no occasion to wear either, but that is fodder for another post. These are shoes that city girls wear to proms, evening out for dinner in a nice restaurant, office parties. Serious, fancy shoes. Now, the serious side of this is that LizBeth's aunt is feeding this habit, by working for Dyeables. The shoe warehouse is seriously less than a block away from our house. There are no retail stores near us that carry these shoes, but we have access to them. This is not good for someone with my daughters "condition". But on the upside Scripture does teach that we should, "Train up a child. . " and to be good stewards, so I will tell you that retail, todays purchases would have cost . . . are you sitting down, cause this is really kinda. . . well, mind blowing really. $392.85 not including sales tax or the hand bag that her aunt bought for her that retails for $33.99 - who actually spends that much on something that small???? Okay, the catch is that it was a warehouse sale so LizBeth spend a grand total of $2. Yes, that is right. I've trained her up well. If she must buy those ridiculously impractical shoe wanna-be's, at least she got her money's worth (after all she saved $390.85, which she didn't have to begin with, but hey, it's a nice thought, right) -- well, maybe... I'm still not sure that they were actually worth $2, but I know that they were definitely not worth $392.85. Champaign taste and a beer pocketbook, yup it's genetic. I have grand taste -- though not in shoes, but I think this even tops my wildest of wild moments. And most of all, it's just fun to tease her about in front of the whole world -- or at least the small corner of it that stops by here. Oh, and now, there are four more boxes to pack and move, way to go, LizBeth, we're suppose to be paring down not adding stuff to our personal belonging.! Hope you enjoyed this little side trail from our normal seriousness. Blessings amidst the silliness, MaggieRaye |
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