Frugality

[JasperFrank]

I buy the work pants and shirts and coats at Goodwil for 3 dollars. These are sacrificial if I'm doing concrete or in the woods torn up by blackberries or other stuff. When they get ruined, I don't care. They get tossed and I get $3 more clothing from a second hand store. They may or may not fit well, but that isn't important. They cover my body.
I then have my nice expensive retail pants and other clothing for when I go out. The two do not mix and there are two different places I store the clothing in so as to not mix them up. This is for work, and this is for casual or formal.

 

[Fixastuff]

Yall can shame me but I just bought two pairs of expensive(to me) light weight pants with bug repellent treatment.

 

[Alan W.]

My wife and I were at the attorney’s office having a deed made when the attorney ask where I had got my shirt. Said he couldn’t find them anymore. The wife started laughing and I had to tell him the shirt was older than my 21 yr old son. So yeah I get my moneys worth outta clothes. My work pants have lots of iron on patches also.

 

[npalen]

Last time I bought jeans ( Bass Pro shop ) - I bought two pair. That was 16 years ago. I'm still wearing the first pair. Maybe I should start wearing the second pair.

Reminds me of the old codger that never took his long johns off. Went to the hospital and they had to "shear" the long johns off as his leg hair had grown thru the fabric.

 

[MossRoad]

Eww!

 

[ljjhouser]

The next time one of you nancy pants sissies starts in on me about what a howling wastrel I am, and how I throw everything away, and what a spendthrift I am - - well - -

What? no one has?

Well The NEXT TIME~!!!!!
These jeans are almost 25 year old.
And this is my iron.

Makes me wonder how old the iron is? and the stove on which you heat it? In today's world, the jeans may be worth more with the patches. Might be a new trend.

 

[JasperFrank]

When Stone Washed Jeans came out, i had to shake my head. Here were companies that intentionally distressed the fabric of the jeans to make them more fashionable.

New jeans are uncomfortable. You have to wear them, and use them to make them comfortable. In that sense, you earn your jeans. A comfortable worn pair said something about you as a person. To buy a pre-stressed pair of jeans as a fashion statement is a fraud, and something you didn't earn. I am amused at those people that buy pre-stressed cause they are telling me straight up, just how fake they are.

 

[oldballs]

My current pair......Sometimes I just use Gorrilla Tape.....it's fast to apply and might stay on after a wash or two.
When they get that thread bare, they are real cool for summeer wear.
Cheers,
Mike

 

[Oaktree]

I buy the work pants and shirts and coats at Goodwil for 3 dollars. These are sacrificial if I'm doing concrete or in the woods torn up by blackberries or other stuff. When they get ruined, I don't care. They get tossed and I get $3 more clothing from a second hand store. They may or may not fit well, but that isn't important. They cover my body.

I"ve found that thrift shops don't generally have much of a selection of men's clothes, or at least not in a size that fits me. Wish they did for the reasons you mentioned.

When Stone Washed Jeans came out, i had to shake my head. Here were companies that intentionally distressed the fabric of the jeans to make them more fashionable.

New jeans are uncomfortable. You have to wear them, and use them to make them comfortable. In that sense, you earn your jeans. A comfortable worn pair said something about you as a person. To buy a pre-stressed pair of jeans as a fashion statement is a fraud, and something you didn't earn. I am amused at those people that buy pre-stressed cause they are telling me straight up, just how fake they are.

I don't consider myself fake, but I like comfortable. Never liked stiff as a board jeans, glad that's not the only way you can get them anymore. Don't miss the days when it was 6 months before you could bend your legs or sit down in them.
I agree the ones that come already equipped with holes are ridiculous, mostly see them on women though.

 

[Jstpssng]

I was in the local salvage chain last week and they had a lot of those stonewashed Levis- the really scuzzy looking kind. Some were in my size. I couldn't picture myself buying them, even for work; the moose and bear would be laughing every time that I walked past.