Shopping...Ay yi yi

I need to premise this post with the fact that H. and I have been cruising in jeans and T-shirts for the past 6 years. We do not frequent department stores or malls.....at all. So, now, the following tale of today will make more sense.

Neither H. or I are very fond of department store or mall shopping, but he needed clothes for the new job, so off we went. First stop: Kohl's. Did I mention I hate department stores? Yeah, I thought so.

Locate the Men's department...check.

Hunt down the short sleeve button front shirts....check. Woo hoo! SAVE 50% (I like it!)....until we notice the REGULAR price is $50.00! For ONE button front polyester/cotton shirt?? (Not even a Ralph Lauren.) Okay, Okay, so 1 shirt at 50% off is going to cost us $25.00, and we need 10 shirts. So, after weeding out all the Charlie Sheen look alike shirts, we had several we liked in an assortment of colors.

Next up: Slacks.

Find the casual slacks (Dockers)....check.

Holy cow. There are officially at a minimum, 10 variations of Dockers slacks today. You have your classic, your chino, your pleated front, flat front, microfiber (I'm serious!), straight fit, individual fit, comfort fit, cargo and soft. ----- Okay, no problem. We just needed to find the regular basic style of Dockers that H. wore 10-12 years ago. After a few minutes, we spotted them.......for $36.99 each! Man, when did the prices for clothes skyrocket???

After working through the pile to find the right size, we ended up with a light khaki, dark khaki, charcoal grey and navy.

On to the dressing room. ....................................One hour later, we have matched up the selected shirts with the selected slacks, tried everything on, second guessed it all, then finally said 'what the hell' and marched to checkout. We were tired, we were hungry and we were so done with shopping at this point. ......The cashier was quite cute as she commented on each shirt saying 'how nice' or 'this is quite nice', and she was even cuter when she said 'that will be $330.22 please, but you saved $180.20!' Uh, yeah, that's because everything was marked up 300% first...duh.

Next stop, the mall. Oh, I hate malls. We found the food court, and a mexican place that served two enchiladas with rice and beans for $3.99. That works! We took one, found a table and scarfed down our lunch.

Sears, JcPenneys, Macys or Dillards???? We still needed one more pair of slacks, socks and a belt. ------------(why didn't we buy them at Kohl's you ask? We didn't think of it. I know, I know) ......We chose Sears. Fast forward through all the locating where we needed to be, with the exception of complete shock with the price of shoes, made in China if I may add; we managed to find one pair of slacks, one belt, 9 pr. of socks and 2 additional shirts, headed to the checkout, paid them $178.10 and got the heck out of there. It was time to go home.

One last stop. Walmart. Wine/Beer. Yes. Okay. Home, James. :)