most money spent on clothes in one shopping trip

[binks120]

whats the most you guys have spent on a suposedly light shopping trip as i just got back from a day in leeds shopping for a wedding for me my wife and the 2 kids (3 and 1) and totted it all up and its just cost me 600 quid or best part of 1000 bucks us. trust me im not bragging im dying how did this happen was it the sun , or well at least the wife is off my back for at least 2 days)

[tgpo]

The most? About 20 bucks. I don't buy clothes, I just wait until Christmas to get them for free

[ChrisX]

I don't buy new clothes and most of my money is spent on DVDs.

[EddyH]

Going out to get some groceries from the local germanic verwunderdiscount store, and coming back with a DVD player .. that's a notable one, tipping the bill from ~£9, to £89..

Or any time I stopped off in town to get a £5 credit voucher for my cellphone, and was blackholed into the music store by their 5-for-£30/6-for-£30/etc offers.. probably spent £120 in one weekend there easily.

[tgpo]

Going out to get some groceries from the local germanic verwunderdiscount store, and coming back with a DVD player .. that's a notable one, tipping the bill from ~£9, to £89..

Or any time I stopped off in town to get a £5 credit voucher for my cellphone, and was blackholed into the music store by their 5-for-£30/6-for-£30/etc offers.. probably spent £120 in one weekend there easily.

I did that this weekend. I went to return my tux from manosteele12's wedding, and went home with 3 DVDs.

[housepig]

I'm going to be in the same boat... I've got a wedding in October, and my current suit is a bit long in the tooth - I'm probably going to have to drop $200-300 for a new one.

(Although it should last me 10 years, so that's only $20-30 per year....)

on average, I shop for clothes around twice a year, and drop around $30 at a time.

[Will Hay]

I seem to remember spending around £700 once from a store direct (Next Directory).
I was young and just had a healthy Christmas bonus though.
I blew the bonus and spent the next ten months paying it off.
Will Hay
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You know nothing until you hit 30

[Will Hay]

I went to Asda last week and bought four pairs of trousers (for work) a pair of casual trousers and a sweatshirt for £58.00 ($93-ish)
Then I went to Marks & Spencer and paid £65.00($104-ish) for four shirts (and two of those were £20.00 each)
That's what having a family does to your wardrobe budget
Will

[tgpo]

$104 for 4 shirts?? WOW!! I like my punk band shirts and Salvation Army clothes far too much to spend that much on clothes.

[Will Hay]

$104 for 4 shirts?? WOW!! I like my punk band shirts and Salvation Army clothes far too much to spend that much on clothes.

Man, up until having a kiddie I'd spend £30 ($50-ish) a shirt and trust me, that's nothing.
I'm sat here at work with a guy that wouldn't think twice about spending £80 ($130-ish).
I'm afraid I wear a suit to work though
Will

[tgpo]

Man, up until having a kiddie I'd spend £30 ($50-ish) a shirt and trust me, that's nothing.
I'm sat here at work with a guy that wouldn't think twice about spending £80 ($130-ish).
I'm afraid I wear a suit to work though
Will

I've just never been into buying clothes. I wear what's comfortable. Except when I worked at Publix, then I wore the uniform. I got in trouble then for not wearing the right stuff. Where I work now only has one rul for dress code, no shorts. I can live with that, becuase I never wear shorts.

[rhegedus]

Going out to get some groceries from the local germanic verwunderdiscount store, and coming back with a DVD player .. that's a notable one, tipping the bill from ~£9, to £89..

That's exactly how I bought my first DVD player Wharfedale 750S - woke up one Sunday and went to Tesco to get milk and croissants and came back with a DVD player by 'accident'.

As for clothes, I bought a new tuxedo suit with all the paraphernalia for about £400 last month. Other than that, I don't go for a big clothes shop (not even sales - just because it's cheap doesn't mean I need it more), but I buy a new shirt, trousers and a pack of socks and boxer shorts every month, usually from Next, M&S or Austin Reed.

[housepig]

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[tgpo]

i fixed it for him.

[rhegedus]

Was that me?

Thanks.

[tgpo]

Was that me?

Thanks.

No problem.

[EddyH]

£50 for a shirt? Cheap???

Obviously been some time since you were a student then

The natural home of the T-shirt is tesco, where their still-nice value garments are 2-for-£5.. polos as well i think. And of course, the natural home of any other kind of shirt, particularly bright coloured ones, or work shirts that merely need a good bleaching, is the charity shop £3.50, one careful owner, still neat with plenty of life left, can't argue with that.

An expensive shirt for me comes from Next, and costs £20 yet i somehow still dont consider myself poor. Very odd.

At least I got a *lot* of good CDs for that £120.

[pbhalerao]

Last September, I had stopped my scooter (yes, we have them a lot in India) outside a grocery mart. The next shop happened to be a 'Suit Shoppe'. I walked in casual and blew Rs. 15,000+ (about £200) on two suits and two shirts. May sound cheap, but in India that is a lot of money and more than what most people earn (gross) in a month.

I am quite an impulsive spender and that is why I caryy very little cash on hand. It is a good thing that Credit Cards are not always so welcome everywhere in India.

[tgpo]

I don't even have a credit card.

[rhegedus]

I don't even have a credit card.

Are you the only adult in the US who doesn't have one?

Seriously though, if my monthly wages weren't paid into a bank direct, I probably wouldn't want a credit card either. People end up buying things more on plastic because it doesn't feel like money, then end up with huge monthly statements which they don't always pay off fully.......... then the rot sets in. It doesn't help that high credit limits are so easy to get - friends of mine have credit limits in excess of their annual wages!

[tgpo]

I also don't have a pager or a cell phone. i don't want em'. I like to pay cash for what I buy. I guess it lets me know that I am spending money.

[EddyH]

Good for you... credit card gave me the false sense of buying power that blinded a bit of fore-planning. Bought a load of dive gear on it, paid the bill off almost immediately... and crashed the bank account. Lived mostly off the card for the next six months and now owe my mom about £1600 after she forced me into giving her the balance (on a 0%-for-6-moths card, thankfully). Yikes. And there's still £250 left over on it for purchases (grocery, phone credit, and car fuel only) after the last statement that my first two paychecks are going to go on. Then the slow process of rebuilding the bank account begins.

Credit. Evil
(however, i may be in a financial world of hurt, but at least i have a car and diving gear.. no big outgoings yet.. and, damn, no mortgage!)

Just wondering... did Asda have the 9p-a-pack Smartprice instant packet noodles (not really ramen - too cheap for that!) before Walmart took over, or did the Puerto Ricans bring them with them? Both cheapest out of all the cheap supermarket noodles, and still quite good, as long as you remember to boil them down a long way. Over a fire built of old bank statements

[funkguy4]

I also don't have a pager or a cell phone. i don't want em'. I like to pay cash for what I buy. I guess it lets me know that I am spending money.

Wait 'til it's time to get a mortgage for a house.............

[tgpo]

Wait 'til it's time to get a mortgage for a house.............

NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[funkguy4]

Wait 'til it's time to get a mortgage for a house.............

NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes. NO CREDIT