Black Friday deals
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@art_of_shred said:
Plain doesn't mean that it doesn't have a "name" that makes it the trendy thing to have and spend way too much on, and just because all of your backpacks are free doesn't mean your wife uses them. Hey @scottalanmiller , does "Vera Bradley" ring a bell?
oh gods, that name... Even my kids have multiple Vera Bradley bags already and they are 5 and 7.
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@art_of_shred said:
Plain doesn't mean that it doesn't have a "name" that makes it the trendy thing to have and spend way too much on, and just because all of your backpacks are free doesn't mean your wife uses them. Hey @scottalanmiller , does "Vera Bradley" ring a bell?
Oh I agree - never said plain doesn't mean no name. But is a nobody made that exact same backpack it would sell for $40 and no one would buy it.... but because some designer that the fashion industry gives credit to put their name on it... suddenly that $40 bag is worth $350... But hey.. if people are willing to pay.. who am I to care.
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@Dashrender remember, the "value" of any item is precisely what some person is willing to pay for said item. If you can get people in general to recognize a name as something to be desired, there you go... clearance at WM to $350 "designer" because people are sheep. And good old Jack Spade laughs all the way to the bank.
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@Dashrender said:
@art_of_shred said:
Plain doesn't mean that it doesn't have a "name" that makes it the trendy thing to have and spend way too much on, and just because all of your backpacks are free doesn't mean your wife uses them. Hey @scottalanmiller , does "Vera Bradley" ring a bell?
Oh I agree - never said plain doesn't mean no name. But is a nobody made that exact same backpack it would sell for $40 and no one would buy it.... but because some designer that the fashion industry gives credit to put their name on it... suddenly that $40 bag is worth $350... But hey.. if people are willing to pay.. who am I to care.
My wallet cares. Thankfully, my wife buys almost exclusively on sales and such.
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@JaredBusch said:
Thankfully, my wife buys almost exclusively on sales and such.Same here. Usually at ridiculous discounts that make the final price about what you could get at WM or Target.
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@JaredBusch said:
@Dashrender said:
@art_of_shred said:
Plain doesn't mean that it doesn't have a "name" that makes it the trendy thing to have and spend way too much on, and just because all of your backpacks are free doesn't mean your wife uses them. Hey @scottalanmiller , does "Vera Bradley" ring a bell?
Oh I agree - never said plain doesn't mean no name. But is a nobody made that exact same backpack it would sell for $40 and no one would buy it.... but because some designer that the fashion industry gives credit to put their name on it... suddenly that $40 bag is worth $350... But hey.. if people are willing to pay.. who am I to care.
My wallet cares. Thankfully, my wife buys almost exclusively on sales and such.
So does mine - hence I don't buy those things - but I'll admit that I buy equally overpriced stuff because it has different labels on it..
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@Dashrender said:
but I'll admit that I buy equally overpriced stuff because it has different labels on it.....don't we all
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Yeah his labels are things like Marshall, Jackson, PRS...
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Mine are things like "Goodwill".
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I think that I might actually be at a point where all of my shirts are either NTG corporate tee shirts or Goodwill button downs.
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@scottalanmiller no SW swag???
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@art_of_shred said:
@scottalanmiller no SW swag???
I don't really have any. I don't collect swag when I'm there.
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I shop for clothes once a year under protest; usually at the behest of one of the ladies in my life.
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@MattSpeller said:
I shop for clothes once a year under protest; usually at the behest of one of the ladies in my life.
Haha... this is pretty much how it goes for me... I generally come home and there are new work clothes on the bed waiting for me to try on.
