I'll just have water

[Oaktree]

I think this one sentence sums of the whole debate, perfectly. Your parents or grandparents wouldn't have udnerstood stone washing, to make the jeans look used, and you don't understand today's kids holes in jeans. If that isn't a great demonstration of generational gap...

I totally get stonewashing to soften them. Hated getting new jeans as a kid...took 6 months before you could bend your legs in them!
I have a friend who to this day won't wear jeans, he hated the stiffness of new ones so much when he was growing up.

 

[bigtiller]

I totally get stonewashing to soften them. Hated getting new jeans as a kid...took 6 months before you could bend your legs in them!
I have a friend who to this day won't wear jeans, he hated the stiffness of new ones so much when he was growing up.

Maybe that was my kids problem....
He went off to elementary (5th ?) grade school one morning wearing a new pair of OshKosh jeans with a double thickness layer in the knees.

He came home with a 3" scissor cut across each knee.
I scolded and grounded him and then patched them up.

He was mad at me for a few days.

 

[Mtsoxfan]

Maybe it's different in your part of the world, but most of those "fuel savings" gimmicks are not as good a deal as they seem.

The only fuel savings I've seen that are worth much are at Irving, for every 50 gal. you get 10¢/gal off one fill-up. They occasionally have online games where you can get discounts as well. Again, they're one-shot deals. Their prices are generally on competitive, and their stations are everywhere so it makes it worth it.
There's a Vt./N.Y. supermarket chain (Price Chopper) that has "loyalty cards" that enable you to get the advertised sale price on select items each week, purchases also accumulate points toward (again, one shot) fuel discount. Trouble is, they're only good at Sunoco stations, which are (1) not very common around here and (2) generally have prices that are 7-8¢ higher than everyone else. Some deal. And their grocery prices are on the high side.
Give me a store with every day low price, not gimmicks any day of the week.

I shop at Price Chopper with the Advantage card. Sunoco across the street, Still, it is better if I use my points at PC, 100 points equals $1 off vs 100 points equals .05 per gallon. My tuck hold less than 20 gals, so I use the points for saving at store.
And the company that owns the Sunoco, has its own reward system, called Bees Knees program, buy 50 gals, get .10 per gallon. They are all over VT, NH, Ma and CT

 

[WinterDeere]

They claimed they went an entire semester without toilet paper... After doing their business they would jump into the shower.

So, everything that would normally end up on the toilet paper was being rinsed onto their shower floor. Lovely. Not a place I'd want to grab a shower.

I totally get stonewashing to soften them. Hated getting new jeans as a kid...took 6 months before you could bend your legs in them!

lol... that brings back memories! My mom would never buy us Levi or Lee's when young, we wore thru jeans too fast, and those were expensive. We used to get those crazy-stiff Toughskins jeans from Sears, instead. I hated those pants.

 

[ultrarunner]

I have a Pendleton sport coat I like and brought with me the 6 months I was working overseas…

It’s the kind with the elbow patch which is a style.

My co-workers notice and the wife of one was a very good dress maker that could make anything… she said such a nice coat and asked what I did to wear out the elbows…?

I said it’s a common style in America and she shook her head…

 

[Jstpssng]

We used to get those crazy-stiff Toughskins jeans from Sears, instead. I hated those pants

At least you had Sears. We had to wear KMart's brand. Not that I blame my mother... it seems like the first thing I'd do with a new pair pf jeans is put a hole in the knee. She'd invariably patch them and it would be the only one I put in them.

I memtioned that at a family gathering last summer. The very next day I atepped into the bushes to get rid of some coffee... and found barbed wire which tore a big hole in the knee of a 2 week old pair pf Levis.

 

[WinterDeere]

At least you had Sears. We had to wear KMart's brand. Not that I blame my mother... it seems like the first thing I'd do with a new pair pf jeans is put a hole in the knee. She'd invariably patch them and it would be the only one I put in them.

I remember my mom ironing those patches to the inside of my jeans, because that looked more acceptable than outside, I guess. But it was like having a stiff and scratchy bit of fiberglass board against a delicate knee at age 4.

 

[grsthegreat]

So, everything that would normally end up on the toilet paper was being rinsed onto their shower floor. Lovely. Not a place I'd want to grab a shower.


lol... that brings back memories! My mom would never buy us Levi or Lee's when young, we wore thru jeans too fast, and those were expensive. We used to get those crazy-stiff Toughskins jeans from Sears, instead. I hated those pants.

My mom once bought me some store brand jeans from Kmart for school use only. She was so proud of the low cost. I had to go to Jr. High with pants that had no pockets. I made sure to destroy these pants as fast as possible.

 

[grsthegreat]

I found some nice stretchy jeans at Costco last year. Seemed to hold up real well in my generator service calls, which is hard on clothes. They had them on sale for $13.

I bought 2 dozen pairs over a few trips into store during sale.

 

[ponytug]

As a kid, I remember hating those new jeans, and especially the iron on patches, as like @Jstpssng, I seemed to have a tendency to put a hole in one knee. The stiff jeans and patches felt to me like wearing a tin man costume. I'm sure I was vocal about it, but I have no recollection of that officer. None.

All the best,

Peter