MONOCHROMATIC IN SHADES OF PINK
How many of you can relate to sending your husband to the store and then thinking, “what was I thinking?” when he comes back home with his haul? If I wasn’t so darn lazy then I would go to the store myself and my life would be much easier. I realize that if I send Joe to the store with a vague list then I can’t complain when he buys a different brand than what I normally use. However, when you say but the Charmin toilet paper in the Ultra Sensitive with Aloe and buy the mega roll type that is what you should expect to get. Notice that I said “should” not “would.” The MAN brain takes over when they go to the store.
Joe wanted to try a vinegar based slaw recipe that he saw on the internet. He was already going to the store for some drinks so he asked me if I had all of the ingredients that I would need to make this slaw. I looked over the list and told him that I need mustard powder and white vinegar. I told him that I already had a small amount of vinegar but since he was going he could just pick me up a new bottle. He comes back in a little bit with the store/knock-off brand vinegar in a GALLON size. I just looked up at him like, “You have GOT to be kidding me!” He said that by buying this size that he was going to be saving —— money. I kind of zoned out when he was talking. I just started laughing at this point. I can use the vinegar eventually on my hardwood floors and for cleaning mirrors, etc. but this is sooooo typical. Remember that Charmin toilet paper. He comes back with the bark off of a tree (no kidding this stuff was about as soft) and it was in the industrial 85 rolls size. There is softer toilet paper at any gas station bathroom than there is at my house. I am counting the stupid little squares until this stuff is GONE and daring him to ever bring home another roll of this stuff. He just laughed at me and told me that my “princess hiney” needed a little pampering. I told him that if I scooted across the floor like a dog would that it would be as soft as the stuff he bought. Lol!
Nothing in this outfit is new. This is an example of taking items that you have previously purchased, previously worn, and now making them look completely different. I LOVE buying new clothing but I hardly ever buy an entire outfit at one time. Instead, I buy a piece here and a piece there just depending on what catches my eye. The problem is that by doing it that way you never know if what you are buying is going to match what you have in mind to wear it with. However, once you start buying things you like you will notice that you tend to pick the same color palette and you will find that there is something that will match the new item. If you are lucky then you will find lots of things to match. The sweater vest I have on today is from Cato Fashions and it was a purchase back in the fall. I wore it when I visited family in Tennessee (here) but it looks completely different in this look. You can see in the fringe that the vest has gray woven into the pattern and the last look was styled with that color. Today, I opted to bring out the gray with my boots and instead went with the wine color of the vest. I like the length of the vest, I like the texture of the diamond shape weave, I like the open front design, and I like the fringe. Those are a lot of details that make this vest cute and help it to stand out. I think the next time I wear this that I will wear it with blue jeans.
This pair of cranberry/wine/claret colored corduroy pants are by Maurice. I bought them a couple years ago but these are still very much in style now. I remember wearing corduroy all of my life, even when I was a child. There is the wide wale or the thinner wale like this pair. I remember when Joe and I first met that he wore Op corduroy shorts that were way too short. Lol! I normally wear a size 10 or a large but I think these were an XL. I don’t know if that is normal for jeans from Maurice’s but just take it into consideration if you place an order.
I need to start looking in the mirror at the back of my hair, it is terrible how bad it looks. Anyway, I wanted to show you this view so that you could see the pattern in the vest. The sweatshirt is one that I got from a Trunk Club shipment and I loved it. I wore it with these same pants a while back but because I changed the boots (you gurls hated the other one) and added the vest and different jewelry. Even though it looks the same it still looks different. Check it out here and see if you agree.
So, you now know that I am picky about my toilet paper. I am that way also about a few products and one of them is the dishwasher tablets. Joe bought me in an off-brand huge pack (it is a pattern with him) and they are horrible. I have to use more than one or re-wash the dishes because they don’t get clean. In the long run, his trying to save a few cents is ending up costing more and not giving me the results that I was wanting. The same is true for my skincare. Yes, I have used products that are much less expensive but they didn’t produce the results I wanted AND I had to use a lot more of the product just trying to get those sub-par results. When you use Rodan + Fields I will encourage you to use very little product, it does not take much. We are all guilty of wanting to see the fastest results possible and we start lathering on the products but honestly when you are using clinically grade products you do not need to use much at all. What I am trying to say is that you end up saving money AND you get results. There are times when it is smarter to pay a little more. tstephens5.myrandf.com
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Men….??? the concept of you “get what you pay for” does not register with them unless of course is a tool or a piece of equipment they use and then you get the lecture as to how that hammer is a piece of junk compared to xyz brand…gotta love them! Nice outfit and you are so right, I shop the same way and find that all my colors mix and match perfectly! Donate the toilet paper to your local gas station and buy the Charmin!
If I send my husband out on errands I make him line up the items I’m particular about and take a pic so when he is staring at all the buying options be has a visual on his phone to remind him what he better come home with? I’m always grateful when he runs errands, but am thankful when the preferred brands come home!
Thanks for always making us laugh w your funny Joe storues! What would we do for comic relief in our lives w/o men! We’ve all been there! Love the outfit and since I have that vest too I will try to style it this way this week! And so true about R& F priducts! I used my first Lash Boost foe 6 mo. before it ran out! And same w my Redefine Triple Defense cream!
You make my day Tania! My hubby is not allowed to do laundry at all. As for grocery shopping, I have to specify brand or else I too end up with generic brands of everything.
I love that you took items from your closet for this cute outfit. I seem to buy a lot of clothes based solely on taste, but then have nothing that goes with them. Thanks for the Monday morning boost.
Funny stories! Love them…my husband likes to buy things on sale, he does believe in better brands but the thing is he will tend to get a lot of said item! We have about 20 cans of crushed pineapple in the cupboard. I got a floor fan from Costco which was a hit so now we have 3 of those..I tell him there is a reason they call those places a “store” as they are the ones who are supposed to be storing all these things! Good problems to have I suppose but sometimes…lol!
Men have no clue that cheap toilet paper can be a PIA and elsewhere for women…..yikes!
It must be in the male genetic code, my hubby does the same at the store. I had a cold all week and we ran out of tissue. I asked him to stop and buy some on the way home. I always manage to find our regular brand on sale for .99 but nooo he buys multiples of a thin, off brand. And that is what gets me; we have never tried this brand before so let’s buy it in multiple/ jumbo size cuz it isn’t sure to be great-ha!
But these are the trivial problems in life!
Tania..thanks for my morning giggle! “Man brain”…yep, definitely a different way of viewing the world. You just have to shake your head sometimes! Lol
My dad is bad about buying cheap generic items too. He throws away a lot of food because it doesn’t taste good. I brought him some Kraft mac and cheese one day and he couldn’t believe how good it tasted! He is beginning to understand some things are worth paying more for. As for the vinegar, I use it to clean practically everything! 8 years ago my parents house partially burned. I salvaged most of their clothing by washing with laundry soap and white vinegar and rinsing them with white vinegar (multiple times). To this day I still use white vinegar in my rinse cycle for all my clothing instead of fabric softener or dryer sheets. It does NOT smell and clothes feel very soft. I use it for clothing I dry in the dryer and well as clothes I hang up to dry. I mix white vinegar with Dawn soap to clean my bathrooms and kitchen and my ceramic tile and windows. I rinse everything with plain white vinegar. And yes, I buy it by the gallon and pour it into my various spray bottles and smaller containers.
My husband went to the store for me yesterday as we were expecting company for lunch. He got everything on my list and then some ! My fridge is full to overflowing…I hope we can eat it all before it goes bad. He can’t resist sale items !