Have You Ever Made A DUMB Purchase?
 

So I come back from the casino the other night up about $700 so I decide to take my winnings and go shopping with my fiance. So she buys a bunch of stuff and I decide to go into Tommy Hilfinger to see what they have.

I find a great pair of cargo pants and try them on. Awesome fit so I say great, go up to the counter and then the price comes up.... $120!! LOL!

Being the jackass I am I figure they would be like $50-60 but I didn't look at the tag before I bought them. Anyways I didn't want to look like a cheapskate infront of the clerk and a bunch of other people so I bit my lip and bought them.

Anyways maybe $120 isn't much to some of you other big spenders but I think it's a bit much for fricking cargo pants. LOL! Anyways everyone at the office was laughing at me today because they heard I bought these expensive pants and was too much of a chicken to tell the clerk I didn't want them.

Just thought you guys would have a good laugh at my expense!

DH

P.S. I am wearing the pants as I type this!! :1orglaugh

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indeed :Graucho

Fuck at that price you better wear them every day.

LOL! Tell me about it!

DH

dood don't be shy just return em

I am sure they will make a good cum rag for you.

Hahaha... I was about to say the same.

I bought a pair of really ugly, red, wool Lithium pants for $60 or $65. I wore em maybe 3-4 times.

I bought a leather jacket for $800.

I've worn it a total of maybe 3 times in 6 years

not too bad to splurge on clothes now and then


hey dude..id love to get in touch with the mortgage broker you were metioning..to see where i need to be to get going with him.

I once bought this really nice suit while I was still going through coop at university. I then lost 50 pounds over one year and so it didn't fit. So I had to go buy a new one. I then started my company and have never had the need to wear it. So I now have 2 suits I never wear and they each went between $400 and $800. Great huh.

WG

$800 for a LEATHER jacket is not a big deal to me because I know I will wear it ALOT.

But if I lived in Cali or somewhere down south where I might wear it a couple times of year I might be a bit upset.

DH

I was going to tell you about the cd jewel cases I bought on clearance, but shit ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS for cargo pants...

I think $50-60 is my limit on jeans. I could spend $100 and get my use out of them easily, but I just don't see the need. Jeans usually last me 3-5 years easily.

I've always paid a shitload for my clothes ... but I have so much now that I don't even buy anymore of it :P

I've spent over $200 on a pair of jeans..

more than once

it's an addiction :(

Last year we spent like $1000 on a spirtual healer who should have help us quit smoking....

imagine how good that worked... puff...

wow... you got suckered.

I understand the clerk thing. I wanted a coach wallet and htis guy in front of me was totally freaking out on this briefcase. should he get it or not or too much blah blah blah. So I said I want that one. The fucking thing was $120 for a wallet but I was too much of a chicken shit to give it back and walk after deciding I was going to show up this other guy.... Wow did i show him and her .. DOH!

:1orglaugh

Do you by chance need your driveway or sidewalk resealed?

hehehehe stop making fun of me... I know we got owned... but fuck, at least I can afford that idiot.

Ron Popeil has me on speed dial......

I have spent thousands of dollars on kitchen related items over the years - pots and pans, Pyrex, bread maker, food processor, mixer, every gadget you can think of. I don't cook :( I just think it's neat, I buy it, use it once or twice then put it in storage.

Another time a girl scout came to our house selling cookies. She had like 3 boxes left (2 mint, 1 peanut butter). She sighed when I opened the door and I just could imagine the day she had had. So I said I will take all that you got left.

Little did I know she had set down a friggen huge box she was carring to the side of my door before she apparently took out a few boxes and knocked.

I went to go get my wallet and when I came back I saw what I was in store for. I guess she sighed in relief of setting the big box down.

people still wear tommy

This isn't a "purchase", but I paid in advance 6 months of GYM for my wife and I and we went for less than 2 weeks. We would get 6 more months free... but all my money went to the crapper :(

I paid for our driving lessons too July 2003... we still have to get them (and pay more of course).

You didn't want to look like a cheap ass in front of peopleyou don't know? Fuck that! I don't care who thinks I'm a cheap ass, I'll put that shit back in a heart beat. Right after I yell, "$120?!" I want them and everyone else around me to know that shit is ridiculously expensive. I'll follow that up with, "FUCK THAT, I'M GOIN TO THE GOODWILL TO DO MY CLOTHES SHOPPIN!"

I've worn the hell out of leather jackets that I've paid $30-100 for. The price has got to be right! If I were a millionaire I suppose I wouldn't care, but I'm a poe college kid right now.

Wow, that is pretty dumb.

BTW, I can't stop staring at your siggy. I don't know if I should thankyou or hate you for wasting so much of my time. :helpme

You paid your stupid tax for sure!

I've paid my stupid tax, but never over embarassment.

never figured u for an a&f type of guy lol

i just go to look at the picture

I bought a 28' foot motorhome I did not want, and two wedding ring sets . . .so yes, I have made a few dumb and expensive purchases in my life.

I just made a dumb order not to long ago.

:1orglaugh

That sounds like a sales technique. At least you have a big heart though. There's nothing stupid about that. :thumbsup

I rented an 8300 sf house on the side of a mountain here in the desert last summer. I spent about 3 weeks in it.

:(

The thing with Hillfiger jeans and the like is you can go to a place like Ross a few months after they first "came out" and pick them up for 20-30 bucks. And who cares if they're not the latest fashion that month, pants are fuckin pants.

That sounds like a wonderful place to spend time in though. I'm jealous.

I do not really eat sweets and stuff. I got hustled.
:winkwink:

ouch... how much did she take you for?

you should have started going door to door selling em to recoup your losses!

I like the way you think! If you're going to Webmaster Access in May, find me and I'll buy you a beer.

Ah who cares how much they are just buy :)
If you have to ask the price you can't afford it.

I payed $40.00 for a spyware removal tool that was a con and actauly put spyware on my PC so that was dumb.
Still $120.00 for cargo pants :1orglaugh

Loud mouth idiot.

those would become my favorite pair of pants, lol

girl scouts are a smart bunch they are

My first home (70K USD) my ex wanted it really badly, she totally loved it from when we saw it a few times and shit. I really never was 100% sure if it was my choice.....but....

The very night that I signed the papers I was sitting there TOTALLY regretting what I bought ( and blew 25k down on)...

10 months later I sold the house, made a few bucks and now im in the perfect house... I was REAL fucking lucky on getting out of a 70,000 fuck up, lol.....

I also did the same shit with the cargo pants, I just laghed and walked outta the store.... Never to return again to mall shopping.

When HAVEN'T I made a dumb purchase?

i normally look at the price tag first ;)

DH, find a handful of clothing stores that carry the styles you like. Make friends with the owners. Shop regularly and ask for a discount and you'll get it.

Paying retail is stupid.

hehe, that's quite funny :)

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