adventures in shopping, for Hubby

Hubby has changed his position at his company. It's not a promotion, it's just switching from one area/job to another.  It is a good thing insofar as his boss felt Hubby was qualified and trustworthy enough for this new position. Hubby has only been at his company for a year and he was the first pick for this new position.

Anyway, this new position is all paperwork and a desk job. Which is the exact opposite of his old job. I was really worried since Hubby needs to be constantly working or doing something, he's not really a desk job paper pusher type. Hubby was smart though and while he knew that might be an issue for him he took the new position because it caries regular hours (his old job didn't). We're both enjoying his new regular set hours! Two weeks in and so far so good. 

Last weekend he decided he wanted some new clothes for his new position. (All his other work clothes are stained and not so clean looking even when clean simply because of the nature of his old job and Hubby's laziness to try to work out any grease/misc. stain he'd had before.) Being the frugal people we are, we looked up the sales! Hubby really got into it and proclaimed that whole weekend how we "beat the man" and how much we saved for what he got! 

First stop: DSW

Source: DSW, Born Men's Slater Oxford

He liked this pair. He's got a thing for dress shoes with laces and he thinks those are the coolest looking ones. Anyway, I agreed they were good because they can be dressed up or down and should be comfy. They're listed with an "original" designer price of $130, DSW price of $80 and had a 30% off sticker on them! They worked out to be $60 something. For a pair he'll wear everyday and are leather I say that's a good value!

Next stop: Old Navy
Hubby decided their pants were too expensive at $30 so we left about 90 seconds after walking in.

Up next: Target
This is such a wonderful store. Hubby announced they didn't have any clothing worth trying on. But because it's target we still left purchasing some odds and ends. 

Last stop: Good Will
Another thing Hubby is all over recently, button down oxford type shirts. He has a thing for dress shirts and ties in general (he loves them and always wants to buy more but he doesn't actually have a need to wear a real honest to goodness dress shirt, let alone a tie with it, more than once or twice a year). But for work we weren't going to Men's Wearhouse or Express, no we went to Goodwill*. Hubby went crazy and looked at all of their shirts and pants, he had good luck on shirts. He went all label snob and started looking at shirts soley on their brand name, which is not something he'd normally do. At $10 each they were still a great deal. He walked away with 2 Calvin Klein and 1Van Heusen. The best part, the guy at the register seemed to care so little about having to work that day he rang everything up under a discount, shirts were not on discount that day! But we walked out with those 4 shirts for under $15!

We then also went to Kirlands (didn't buy the $40 clock I want, it may be on 50% but I can't spend that much on decoration!) and Costco (our maybe 5th trip in 3 weeks, I am loving that place, my checking account/budget not so much). We shopped all day and of course I loved that but amazingly so did Hubby!

IMPORTANT (not really)
The follow up to this (the real reason I even made this post was to share this) is that Monday when Hubby put on one of his new shirts and shoes, proud as a kid picking out his clothes for the first day of school a peacock all of his co-workers ragged on him that he must have a job interview that day with that outfit on! I laughed so hard all day long, just thinking about them ragging on him. Seriously all day long every time I thought about it I laughed!


*Just because I can't help myself, if you haven't heard (or seen the video for) this song just go ahead and click it. 

The first time Hubby heard this song he thought it was a local Goodwill's attempt at a jingle/song commerical. And then the DJ announced it and he realized it was a a for real song!