Frugality

[Jstpssng]

Yall are all big spenders! The real savings are in not wearing pants at all! lol

Where I'm from we call that "Too much information!"

 

[BravoXray]

I usually wear my jeans for a few years until the get really faded, then they get relegated to shop pants, and when they get too oil, grease and soot soaked, get cut up for rags.
I do have some Schmidt work shirts from TSC that are getting over 20 years old and the elbows are getting thin and ripping out. Not sure how I'm going to fix them, but they fit well and are really comfortable.

 

[MossRoad]

I have to buy a couple pairs of jeans every year. They wear out from my job. Tools in the front pockets, tool pouch in the back pocket, radio clipped to a pocket or belt, key rings, etc. all take their toll. There's a Wrangler jean outlet over in Michigan City, IN that we hit a few times a year. I get the Riggs workwear.

Unlike their website prices, the outlet is usually under $20.

Men's Workwear | RIGGS Workwear

Shop the RIGGS Workwear Collection at Wrangler. Wrangler.com is your source for western wear, jeans, shirts & outerwear for men, women and kids.

www.wrangler.com

 

[jyoutz]

I usually wear my jeans for a few years until the get really faded, then they get relegated to shop pants, and when they get too oil, grease and soot soaked, get cut up for rags.
I do have some Schmidt work shirts from TSC that are getting over 20 years old and the elbows are getting thin and ripping out. Not sure how I'm going to fix them, but they fit well and are really comfortable.

I bought a bunch of those Schmidt canvas work shirts several years ago. I have worn them to death and some are starting to get thin. I hope they continue to sell those.

 

[Hay Dude]

I can be a cheap sum bi@tch too. My kids won’t finish their food. I just eat their table scraps they shove in the fridge. Must be a lot because I still have 10 pounds to lose.
I love leaving for work on trash days. I have made thousands of dollars pulling perfectly good items out of their trash, fixing and selling on CL.
One of my neighbors threw away a perfectly good Razor S200 electric scooter. Just needed a $36 battery.
Last summer, I hoisted a huge stainless steel gas grill at the end of a neighbors driveway. Threw it away because the ignition didnt work. Fixed it for $20. Sold it for $250.
Another threw away a brand new set of Weber stainless steel barbecue utensils, still in package, a brand new Multi Meter with pouch & instructions.

If you have a Costco, check out their “Weatherproof” line of insulated pants. Warm & tough, just like me

 

[WVH1977]

I can be a cheap sum bi@tch too. My kids won’t finish their food. I just eat their table scraps they shove in the fridge. Must be a lot because I still have 10 pounds to lose.
I love leaving for work on trash days. I have made thousands of dollars pulling perfectly good items out of their trash, fixing and selling on CL.
One of my neighbors threw away a perfectly good Razor S200 electric scooter. Just needed a $36 battery.
Last summer, I hoisted a huge stainless steel gas grill at the end of a neighbors driveway. Threw it away because the ignition didnt work. Fixed it for $20.
Another threw away a brand new set of Weber stainless steel barbecue utensils, still in package, a brand new Multi Meter with pouch & instructions.

I just got 5 brand new Mead Note Books for my kids at the dump and other brand new school stuff. A couple of college kids were cleaning out their apartment and throwing the stuff away. Last week I got a box of sun glasses at the dump. All brand new in the plastic bags. Enough that my kids will be good to go for a while.

I am always on the look out at the dump!

 

[Oaktree]

RK stores are only located in states east of the Mississippi River.

Correction: some states east of the Mississippi. None in New England.

The nutty thing is people will actually buy new jeans that are already ripped.

I typically wear work clothes until they're nothing but shreds. Back in the 80s, one of the jeans makers had a deal where if you'd turn in an old pair they'd give you a coupon for 50% off a new pair of theirs. The pair I put in the bin was more holes than cloth. Many (most) of the other pairs people had put in were barely broken in.

 

[Raul-02]

The "iron-on" patches in the photos worked for me till the first time they were put in the clothes washer

Hotter iron. I wash mine all the time. Sometimes daily. Hotter heavier iron.

 

[bunyip]

Got a pair of R M Williams drill pants, still as stiff as boards and I won't wear them, I didn't realise when I bought them that they came in different weights, these were designed for cattlemen in the saddle all day and are almost bullet proof, must have been washed over 100 times and still won't soften up.
Don't buy them now as they are over $150 a pair.

 

[mapper]

Local store has Key brand Jean's, the heavy duty ones I bought about six years ago are stained a bit but otherwise still feel new when the are washed.
Unfortunately they closed the store in Yelm, now I have to go to the store in Chehalis.

 

[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.