I seriously can’t remember the last time I went into a department store and bought something new to wear. I mean something brand spanking new. Well about a month ago Todd picked me up from work and I smelled like garlic toast and it was like the hottest day of the entire summer. I was wearing jeans and I felt like I was going to puke all over them so we stopped at WalMart and I purchased a pair of shorts to wear so I didn’t have to walk around naked for the rest of the day (because I wasn’t going home). Before that, the last thing I bought was probably in December when I purchased a business suit-interview type outfit. Oh yeah, and last week Todd bought me another business suit … since I had to go to a lot of interviews at the same place and I didn’t want to look like I only had one outfit.
Clothes are so ridiculously expensive. When I was at the mall last week I was at JcPenny and they had this section called like “career girl” or something. It basically consisted of those 3/4 length button up shirts with collars. They were all really nice, but they were like $30 a piece. I go clothes shopping a lot. In fact everytime I get paid I tend to go on a clothes shopping spree. But my clothes shopping sprees occur at GoodWill and Avalon Exchange. GoodWill has a lot of nice dress pants, but they lack in cute tops. Avalon Exchange has some nice tops, but most of the clothes there come from all the size 0 girls around here so everything is really small.
Clothes-wise, I’ve been preparing for a career for months. Everytime that I felt depressed about not having a job I would go shopping and only buy really cute professional clothes. I guess I just hated coming home from work, always smelling like nasty garlic, and never having anything nice to wear. After working at a pizza shop for a year and a half, mostly everything I owned was stained, bleached, or really dirty looking. I’m going to rejoice in getting a few big garbage bags and throwing all of my clothes away. And I have a closet full of nice clothes to wear now! I’ve been saving them … hoarding them, just waiting to have an opportunity to dress up. Yesterday I bought a new pair of dress shoes at Avalon, for $6 dollars! They are awesome, however it does bring my count on “black dress shoes” up to 7 pairs, plus two pairs of dress sandals that are black, so total dress shoes that are black = 9. I have a shoe problem. I will buy shoes even if they don’t fit me. If they catch my eye, I have to buy them. I can’t help it. I love shoes. I really need a shoe rack though. I have two laundry baskets filled with shoes and the floor of my closet is lined with them too. And now I can actually wear EVERY SINGLE PAIR! At Vento’s, I limited my variety of shoes to only two pairs EVER. I will be throwing those away too because they permanently smell like butt juice. I’m not obsessed with sneakers though. If I have two good pairs of those, I’m fine. I’m just obsessed with sandlas, flip-flops, and dress-shoes.
I also love purses. It’s kind of weird too. I never ever carried a purse until I got a cell-phone, which was almost exactly a year ago. I never had anywhere to put my phone, so I decided I would have to carry a purse. But all purses I buy have to be purses that fit perfectly on my shoulder. I hate purses that have those long or adjustable straps on them. Like the ones that you can wear over your chest that bounce off your butt. I’m not all about purses that make me feel like I’m a walking seat-belt. Like a mini-messenger bag, I hate them. Anyways, the only purse I owned was this little blue purse that I think I got as a gift from Todd’s grandma. It wasn’t really my style, so I went out and bought a little black purse. Then I realized that my brown coat and my black purse looked bad together, so I bought a brown purse. Then I thought my black purse was too big so I bought another smaller black purse. Then I became obsessed so everytime I saw a cute purse I had to buy it. Now I have 11 purses. It’s terrible. But it does come in handy. For instance, my latest purse purchase was from Marshalls .. this really cute semi-pleather (but still cute) navy blue purse. So when I bought my second interview outfit, which was navy blue … I already had a purse to match it. I’m sure I got the job because I’m so color coordinated too. I mean, it is important.