My main mail  account is currently a Yahoo account. Every morning I load up my Yahoo page  and spend a few minutes looking at the "news." In addition to actual important events sometimes, if the headline is compelling enough, I even read a bit of celebrity gossip or the "lifestyle" features.

Todays topic is 10 Best Jeans Under $100 dollars. $100!!??!!   For ONE pair of jeans???  Don't forget the title suggests that there are plenty of jeans for over that already insane  figure.   I try to get my whole wardrobe for under $100 and I only do that every few  years.  The last time I bought jeans they cost me less than $25 dollars a pair and I only spent that much because  my loving husband realized I needed stuff and  took me shopping and made me get stuff.  (I am THAT bad about  shopping for myself)

The majority of my wardrobe is skirts as I only wear pants aroung the  house for working in. I wear long full skirts that are not always in style so when I see something appropriate in Wal-Mart I snag a  few knowing that it may be several years before I get new ones. This last summer they had one stlye priced at $14. I bought two on the spot since the ones I had finally worn holes in my current ones and decided to wait for the  markdown to get more. I found out that my size is the most popular size and none made it mark down. A few weeks later another  style came out at  $18 and I  begrudgingly picked up four not wanting to make the same mistake twice.  So I spent just over $100 to clothe myself for the next four years or so...

The vast majority of our clothing budget goes to keeping our  boys in hole free pants. Kids, growing the way they do need clothes every year.  When people ask what the kids need pants is always the answer. We have  way too many shirts. I could clothe a whole army of small people in shirts. Shirts get handed down easily in an ever growing mass because no one listens and buys shirts to go along with the  pants. But anything with knees in it is likely to need replacing. My oldest usually passes on about 80% of his pants but #2 usually blows out the knees on those, and the replacements I have to buy him.

So every trip to Wal-Mart includes a stop at the clearance rack in the boys section. Most of our jeans come from that rack. The average price of a pair of  jeans on the clearance rack is $5 but I have purchased many pairs for $3. I buy any appropriately styled pair of jeans or dress pants on the  rack in any size currently used or bigger than my boys. I don't pass up $5 jeans.

But the $100 dollar kind.. no thank you.

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Posted by 3rsandahug

Yeah, there's no way I'm spending that much for jeans either! Have you tried Sears for pants for your boys? I'm told they will replace pants that get holes in them for free, although I'm not sure if that only applies to their Toughskin brand or not. Of course, I have a son who is really picky about pants and wouldn't wear jeans at all until just this past fall we found some at Wal-Mart that don't feel uncomfortable around the waist, so I can't do the Sears thing with him. But I thought I'd pass on the info just in case it can help you!
Karen

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Posted by emmaus

I would never pay 100 for jeans. Thrift store have great selections of skirts but not boy clothes. Sears and Shopko have great kid's deals, if they wear them out you bring them back and they replace them, same size, free! No receipt needed! I used to live in Lynnwood, Burien, Milton. Now I'm in Idaho. Thanks for sharing the pics of 'home.'

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Posted by WashingtonState

Hi,

What a nice blog. I enjoyed your colorful sunrise, Seattle Field trip...aaah, good memories of the Pacific Science Center, slide show baking pineapply upside down cake and... who buys $100 or more jeans?!
I'm not sure I know any of 'those' people!

I wear jeans all the time. I can buy them at WalMart no problem. Our daughter and I have noticed that once a young lady of age 12 grows out of girl size clothes the jr. dept. at most stores, and we've tried quite a few, is small and not too impressive. Dresses are really hard to find that don't look like cocktail attire. The colors are not little girl colors any more either. Bummer for tall young gals. Obviously not an issue with your sons.

I did notice boy clothes sort of turned dark and with evil looking stuff printed on them pretty early on. So we have rules about what's allowed on things.

Well, nice chatting with you. Cute avatar too.

Marie
In Washington too.

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Posted by sadie423

I'm like you, I rarely buy for me. Still have shirts from high school I wear (10 years past almost), I have the pants too...if only they weren't too small....My husband forced me to buy jeans last month....it was very hard to shell out that $25. But pants.....with all the car/truck driving that goes on around here there are holes in the knees in no time. Up until they are about 3 yrs old I have plenty to pass down...then my hand-me-downs start to dwindle.
I couldn't imagine $100 for 1 pair of pants....now a headline that listed great jeans for under $10 I'd be clicking on that one

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Posted by sahmto4orMore

Wow, i could have written this post almost word-for-word! Are we twins separated at birth?

My oldest always blows out the left knee in his jeans.
I'm a huge fan of adjustable waist jeans for my scrawny boys.
The end of season clearances and big consignment sales are my shopping grounds.

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