Your annual clothing budget?

Living with a 17 year old granddaughter, only time I buy clothes is when granddaughter reminds me and say " You're not wearing that out again, are you"?
 
Normally, I probably spend less than a hundred. I doubt I will live long enough to wear out the clothes I do have. Only buy anything new...when something wears out. Then shop and shop until I can get the best quality for the best price. Only exception is for a very special occasion. Will most likely go over budget this year. A granddaughter is getting married in July. So I shall have to buy something appropriate. Hopefully, I shall be able to shop at a couple upper scale consignment shops.
 

Hi Holly,
Like you i like good shoes the reason being they work out a lot cheaper in the long run, ie the last pair ive bought was from robinsons "an irish company" and they cost me £250, now these along with shoes i bought years ago will out last me, they're made of good leather sole's and good upper leather, you really do get what you pay when it comes to shoe's /boots

When it comes to quality and cost, have you ever used the red cross shops etc,? You'd be surprised what both good clothing is handed over for re-sale and all the money paid is used to help aid for those who really do need a help in hand.
Ive given and bought lots of items from such as the animal rescue & red cross over the years,
I do draw the line when it comes to underwear,
I like new undies and i remember my mum would always tell me to make sure you've clean underpants on every day because you never know when your going to get run over by a bus.
If you buy quality you'll really be saving in the long run.
 
Oh yes whisteria , I often buy from Charity shops, you can get some real bargains there of new or almost new good quality clothing. I got a Hobbs coat in one last winter..still in season and being sold by John lewis for £250..I got it for £25. I also donate to several charity shops on a regular basis..far more than I buy. PDSA, Keech Hospice, Cancer research, and Isabel hospice mainly.

Gonna go look at Robinson shoes in Ireland online..not heard of them so I'm interested to have a look.. thanks for that . :)
 
whisteria said:
Hi Holly,
Like you i like good shoes the reason being they work out a lot cheaper in the long run, ie the last pair ive bought was from robinsons "an irish company" and they cost me £250, now these along with shoes i bought years ago will out last me, they're made of good leather sole's and good upper leather, you really do get what you pay when it comes to shoe's /boots

When it comes to quality and cost, have you ever used the red cross shops etc,? You'd be surprised what both good clothing is handed over for re-sale and all the money paid is used to help aid for those who really do need a help in hand.
Ive given and bought lots of items from such as the animal rescue & red cross over the years,
I do draw the line when it comes to underwear,
I like new undies and i remember my mum would always tell me to make sure you've clean underpants on every day because you never know when your going to get run over by a bus.
If you buy quality you'll really be saving in the long run.
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When I was a kid, my mom was always worried about the condition of my underwear if I got in an accident. She would be horrified if I left the house with a safety pin in a slip strap, for instance. I always figured the condition of my undies was the least of my worries if I got hit by a bus.
 
Kadee46 said:
No idea as we are retired , however I receive a $25 voucher from NoniB ( a women's fashion store) for Mother's Day, if the y have a nice skirt or top that I like I will buy a set which normally means an outlay of about $100 on top of the voucher
I have over 40 NoniB skirts which I wear for dancing
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applecruncher said:
For those of us in US - 1 British pound = 1.54 US dollars.

Pound sign on MS Word = Alt 0163

£25 = about $38.50
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I guess I could be confusing some when we are mentioning $$$$ We had pounds , shillings and pence up untill 1966 then it changed to Dollors and cents
 
Hi Ameriscot,
Nice to hear you also use and donate to the charity shops,
A lot of people dont know it but the red cross invested donated funds into opening a lab that spends its time trying to regenerate old seed, these seeds are of plants etc that have been saved and forgotten about really and so we end up loosing certain varieties of food producing plants "but" the idea was to see how the seed's of both modern foods and the ones ive just taked about can be stored for years and years as a way of helping those places on this earth that cant grow their own food when the weathers wrong,
It's a lot cheaper to send tons of seeds and also the storage cost is a lot less rather than trying to ship tons of food that has a short life span, as an plus the victims of starvation are being educated how to grow their own food "hence the seeds are used to teach how to do it.

So as im sure you'll agree its nice to think everyone's a winner, the buyer gets some very good clothing and the main thing is people (humans) who have one hell of a life are being helped in so many ways, ie food, medicine, clothing, and the seeds etc to grow their own crops.

The old saying is "Give a man a fish for his supper and he'll eat for a day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! give the same man a fishing rod and he'll fish for life.

As an added good thing ref buying from such shops is the "GARDEN"
who wants to wear their best jumper when gardening ? Roses just love to snag your woolly jumper to bits, and after a few gardening days of kneeling down your trousers have a very out of shape knee area "never to be the same again" why not spend pennies getting the charity shop buys and garden in comfort, ??? I do.

Nice talking to you Ameriscot.
 
whisteria said:
Hi Ameriscot,
Nice to hear you also use and donate to the charity shops,
A lot of people dont know it but the red cross invested donated funds into opening a lab that spends its time trying to regenerate old seed, these seeds are of plants etc that have been saved and forgotten about really and so we end up loosing certain varieties of food producing plants "but" the idea was to see how the seed's of both modern foods and the ones ive just taked about can be stored for years and years as a way of helping those places on this earth that cant grow their own food when the weathers wrong,
It's a lot cheaper to send tons of seeds and also the storage cost is a lot less rather than trying to ship tons of food that has a short life span, as an plus the victims of starvation are being educated how to grow their own food "hence the seeds are used to teach how to do it.

So as im sure you'll agree its nice to think everyone's a winner, the buyer gets some very good clothing and the main thing is people (humans) who have one hell of a life are being helped in so many ways, ie food, medicine, clothing, and the seeds etc to grow their own crops.

The old saying is "Give a man a fish for his supper and he'll eat for a day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! give the same man a fishing rod and he'll fish for life.

As an added good thing ref buying from such shops is the "GARDEN"
who wants to wear their best jumper when gardening ? Roses just love to snag your woolly jumper to bits, and after a few gardening days of kneeling down your trousers have a very out of shape knee area "never to be the same again" why not spend pennies getting the charity shop buys and garden in comfort, ??? I do.

Nice talking to you Ameriscot.
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Didn't realize the red cross did that with the seeds!

My husband is the gardener at our house and he's got tons of ragged old clothes to work in. He must have about 60 tshirts and maybe a third are work tshirts.
 
If I lived in a warm climate I would just live in manties so my clothing expenses would be minimal, and so would my manties...:cool:
 
I've been retired for a little over a year now but one of the first things I did was dispose of most of my work clothes. I kept 3 dresses, a couple of skirts, one pair of black heels, some dressy flats and two pairs of boots. The rest of my wardrobe is jeans, yoga pants, tee shirts, casual tops, sweaters, and hoodies. Flip-flops, sandals, and athletic shoes. I have probably spent about $200 on clothing in the past year and expect that will continue to diminish as Glinda merrily skips down the yellow brick road of retirement heaven! :)
 
Hi Ameriscot,
Yes its true the red cross has invested funds to get this Laboratory going and i think a very good investment it is,
One thing i think i should say to those people who are into gardening or are wanting to learn about any gardening subject is that a lot of these charity shops do have books donated to them on all subjects I myself over the years have built up a small library of gardening books and a lot of these have come from such as the red cross,

The good thing about the books from such charity shops is they are a lot cheaper than buying new books "But" these books once belonged to keen gardeners and for one reason or another these people have no use for the books and many of the books are old and full of information given by gardening bodies that really did have to know their subject before they could get anything published, you'll find an list of letters after their names unlike a lot of todays gardening books that all you seem to need to get published is a hit record or a place on gardeners world,
The books im talking about really do go into a subject and cover every aspect of the subject unlike a book i was looking at not so long ago that was a very thin book and it had pictures of A4 size paper of verious veg, ie a cabbage, if you need a full A4 size page to show you what a cabbage looks like then i think gardening is not your subject,
So to sum up, you really can buy a lot of good gardening books in the verious rescue shops full and i do mean full of good well written and well tried info by gardeners who have to know the subject they're writing about.
 
Right now, I'm still working full time, so I need to have lots of dress casual clothes... Since I have my full paycheck asw well as my Social Security and pensions.. I don't budget... I buy what I want and what I like. I'm sure that when I retire and my income is decreased, I will worry more about cost.. but then again, I will not need the clothes I do now..
 
whisteria said:
Hi Ameriscot,
Yes its true the red cross has invested funds to get this Laboratory going and i think a very good investment it is,
One thing i think i should say to those people who are into gardening or are wanting to learn about any gardening subject is that a lot of these charity shops do have books donated to them on all subjects I myself over the years have built up a small library of gardening books and a lot of these have come from such as the red cross,

The good thing about the books from such charity shops is they are a lot cheaper than buying new books "But" these books once belonged to keen gardeners and for one reason or another these people have no use for the books and many of the books are old and full of information given by gardening bodies that really did have to know their subject before they could get anything published, you'll find an list of letters after their names unlike a lot of todays gardening books that all you seem to need to get published is a hit record or a place on gardeners world,
The books im talking about really do go into a subject and cover every aspect of the subject unlike a book i was looking at not so long ago that was a very thin book and it had pictures of A4 size paper of verious veg, ie a cabbage, if you need a full A4 size page to show you what a cabbage looks like then i think gardening is not your subject,
So to sum up, you really can buy a lot of good gardening books in the verious rescue shops full and i do mean full of good well written and well tried info by gardeners who have to know the subject they're writing about.
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Thanks Whisteria. But we don't grow veggies, just lots of flowers, shrubs, trees and hubby knows all about them as he's been a keen gardener for decades. He has some good gardening books and watches the gardening programmes.

We don't grow veggies as our soil is too acidic although I know we have other options. But we go on long trips too often to worry about the timing of our veggies and having someone look after them. Husband used to grow veggies years ago and he also grew them when we lived in Uganda.
 
Blown Clothes Budget

Upon watching too many episodes of Frankie and Grace, I became aware that I was a dinosaur in my yoga pants and faded tees.
I want to look and dress like Grace (Jane Fonda), so I went on a spending spree. But one thing that I tried not to think about was
my Jane Fonda figure, which was only in my dreams. Oh well, I have put restrictions on my F&G watching and am trying to get back
into reality- back to the yoga pants and workouts.
 
Hi quicksilver
A nice thread you've done,
You may find when you do get to retire time that you still like to look good,
I still both enjoy and feel good when im going out and away from my garden, Anyone can look like a bag of rags, but to dress and feel smart is something the individual feels
Ive always liked looking good and driving a nice car, Like you've said it's what you like that counts.
 
QuickSilver said:
Right now, I'm still working full time, so I need to have lots of dress casual clothes... Since I have my full paycheck asw well as my Social Security and pensions.. I don't budget... I buy what I want and what I like. I'm sure that when I retire and my income is decreased, I will worry more about cost.. but then again, I will not need the clothes I do now..
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The unfairness of that will be that after you're retired, you'll have so much more free time to shop!! The gods get us one way or another.
 
whisteria said:
Hi quicksilver
A nice thread you've done,
You may find when you do get to retire time that you still like to look good,
I still both enjoy and feel good when im going out and away from my garden, Anyone can look like a bag of rags, but to dress and feel smart is something the individual feels
Ive always liked looking good and driving a nice car, Like you've said it's what you like that counts.
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Hi whisteria..actually it was me that started this thread.. :)..and I agree I will still want to look smart when I retire, ...but that said I've always yearned to live in a verrry rural area far from neighbours where I can just slop around all day in baggy ill-fitting clothes and not worry what I look like most of the time..
 
What surprises me is people don't buy new underwear yearly, that's some undies, I buy at least three new bras and several pairs panties and socks a year, that alone will run me no less than $100. I can't imagine a $0 -$50 budget unless I were forced to. I'd like to know some of you alls secrets. I lose at least $10 worth of socks to washers and dryers every year. LOL! Oh and I have a chest that must have support, so going for cheap or going braless, won't work, I must restock. I'm genuinely curious since the OP did say including such items.
 
I buy 3 or 4 new bras' at least every year April I have a full drawer of them from the last couple of years all in very good condition still but that said I actually bought 2 more just today. Socks I have a drawer full they are very cheap 6 pairs for £3, on average and they wash and wear well too even tho' they are so cheap . Knickers I buy in packs of 6 or so at about £5 a pack..and pretty frilly underwear sets I'll only buy probably one set a year My Bra's cost around £25.00 each ...so I suspect that It costs me way less than £100 every year in total for underwear ... ( that's equivalent to approx $153 USD )
 
Hi Holly,
If you like to be out of the way, not see or speak to many people from the start of the week to the end (unless you go into the village) and dress as baggy as you like?
then come here to this hamlet an english lad is selling his mums tucked away house just a mile up the track from us,
you'd love it, (it's a key job)
 
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