sigh, self, sigh

[flea]

I recently fell in love with some boots. Because I am the sort of person who always falls for the $$$ version of anything (seriously, when I was 13 my mother got me post-it notes that read "I have the simplest of tastes. I only want the best."), the boots I fell in love with are $332 Frye boots. These, to be specific. http://www.zappos.com/frye-veronica-slouch-cranberry?zlfid=111 Perhaps in saddle. (Side note: the people posting reviews mentioning that they've just bought their THIRD PAIR of $300 boots - I own a house and you don't, nyah nyah!)

On Sunday I had the bright idea that if I put $5 in an envelope every week, saved by the dint of not buying any vending machine candy or Jittery Joe's treats at work, I could buy myself the boots for Christmas 2010!

On Monday, I bought a $1 Three Musketeers. Just now I bought a $2.50 chocolate chip muffin. Sigh.

(ION, this week is TOO COMPLICATED. I want to call it off and come back next week.)

Comments

[veejane.livejournal.com]

You do have expensive taste. However, you also have good taste. Especially in boots.

Now go look for the knockoff version at DSW.

[casperflea.livejournal.com]

I honestly think it would be worth it to save up and get them. They'd last forever. DSW ones would be hurty for my feet and last 3 years, and wouldn't be like buttah. What's the point of that? I'd rather have no shoes than cheap shoes.

[veejane.livejournal.com]

DSW ones would be perfectly cromulent boots -- DSW sells name brands, just not the newest or highest-end stuff -- and they would not cost more than my COMPUTER.

Or an ALTERNATOR. Or 3 kittens from the MSPCA! You could adopt 3 kittens for that price. And then wear two of them on your feet.

[casperflea.livejournal.com]

If there is one thing this house does not need, it is three kittens.

I was thinking DSW was like Payless. (I don't think we have one, of course.)