I love shopping for school with my son...

[ScreamingMeemie]

Start time: 11:45

go to sears

"Do you like this?" "This?" "This?" "These?" "Yup" "Yup" "Yup" "You bet Mama!"

12:15: Stop for pretzels

12:25: Book store


12:40 ish: In the car on our way home.

I have to practically take a week off work to get my daughter ready for school... or at least get her a pair of pants and a top.. but not my boy! :bounce:

Five Shirts, Five pair of pants, Two pair of Shoes, Socks and a backpack in under an hour. Tis a happy day! :hi:

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

1. Ahhh, the wonders of the Y chromosome. -nt

[ScreamingMeemie]

3. If I could only borrow a Y when I go shopping with my daughter.

[Midlodemocrat]

2. I can totally relate. My boy couldn't care less what I buy him.

The teenager, yeegads, she looks at everything. single. thing. in the store before deciding.

Me, I'm a guerrilla shopper, if it fits and is an appropriate price, I'm all set. In and out.

[ScreamingMeemie]

4. Me too. I hate shopping, and my daughter makes it worse...

She doesn't even touch anything, or pick anything up. She just wanders around like a new born field mouse...wrinkling her nose. Although, to her credit, this year was not so very bad...but we're not finished.

[tigereye]

5. aw I wish I had had a daughter

I love all those girlie/hipster clothes. (well, except for the frilly and Britney-like ones)

But I bet if I had had one, my style would certainly be anathema....

[ScreamingMeemie]

8. You want one? You can borrow her anytime you want to go shopping

for girlie stuff. :D :hi:

[Crazy Dave]

6. It's genetic

We (Mrs. DTW & I) go on vacation and she buys at least three new (new to her, she loves the thrift stores) outfits to take with her, me...whatever is the top three things in the drawer is what goes with me.

[ScreamingMeemie]

10. Probably, but I would think my daughter would be more like me

Shop and get on with life. :hi:

[MissMillie]

7. I remember that w/ my son too

One trip to Sears.... 25 minutes and done.

[ScreamingMeemie]

11. It's the best!

How's your son doing by the way? :hi:

[MissMillie]

22. thanks for asking... pretty good

he just bought a car, he's registered to start community college next week, and he's filthy rich, so has decided not to work this fall. He'd better get damned good grades....

:hi:

[billyskank]

9. That's 'cause he's a guy

Although you know you're doing well to get any response at all about the clothes, right? ;)

[ScreamingMeemie]

12. Yes, I probably am.

He knows how to keep Mom happy. :hug:

[billyskank]

14. Good

:loveya:

[tjwmason]

13. Pah.

You just haven't yet experienced the utter joy that is spending 20 minutes contemplating which of 2 ties to buy - before getting both, along with a couple of others and picking up a pair of cuff-links as well.

Oh and I'm honest when women ask me what I think of their outfits - polite, but honest.

[ScreamingMeemie]

15. You wanna finish the school shopping with my daughter then?

:hug: You guys would get along fabulously.

[billyskank]

17. I'll give it a try

:D :hi:

[Rabrrrrrr]

21. LOL! I'm with you - I'm a very slow clothes shopper,

unless I'm just picking up a duplicate of what I already have (such as my dress shirts and my jeans, always the same brand from the same place).

Finding *just the right* tie is a nuisance; as is finding a polo or casual shirt that's cotton, doesn't have a fugly collar, doesn't have a little polo guy or other emblem on the goddamn thing, fits well and is comfortable.

Yeah, shopping takes fucking forever.

That's why I would prefer to wear a suit all the time - much easier to choose, they're comfortable, they're easy to put together, they're easy to shop for the accessories.

[buddhamama]

16. i do too

when i can get him to do it. he dislikes shopping almost as much as i do. we suffer through together and get it done as quickly as we can.

YAY! It is the little things, is it not, Mrs.G ?! :loveya: :hi:

[ScreamingMeemie]

19. Yes it is... BabyG and I have gotten good at getting through it.

In 16 years, his sister has yet to figure me out in that respect. :D :loveya:

[seemunkee]

18. Did you see this comic?

Won't let me post it so go here and scroll down
http://www.babyblues.com/index.php

[ScreamingMeemie]

20. Hehehe...

That's funny. :hi:

[Arugula Latte]

23. I can relate. My son wears what we hand him. My daughter has opinions.

She's really into clothes and she's only six. I'm not so much a girlie girl, and she always says: "Mama, why don't you wear skirts more? You should wear more make-up, and do your hair more."

[ScreamingMeemie]

24. Ha! My son is my style guide..."Mama, I think that's too juniors-ish

for you..." :rofl:

[billyskank]

25. ...........

:hug:

[ScreamingMeemie]

26. Hey! There you are!

:loveya:

Thank you billy... for everything! :hug:

[billyskank]

27. I said before

we need to stick together. :hug:

[ScreamingMeemie]

28. And you were right.

Then and now. :hug:

What are your plans for the weekend? It's Labor Day here, so it's a three day weekend.

[billyskank]

32. Woo hoo! Long weekend!

We had one of those last weekend. :) Tomorrow I need to make a couple phone calls, and I really MUST clean up my apartment a bit. I should really make a start on pulling the paper off the walls in my bedroom after last winter's damp incident, but whether that actually happens... ;) I also have to run an errand for a friend to London sometime in the next month - maybe I will do that Sunday. Maybe I won't.

How about you? :loveya:

[ScreamingMeemie]

34. I say....maybe you should sleep in!!!

:bounce:

Tomorrow, I am hoping to get a chance to meet MissHoney when she is on layover in Detroit. I'm not too far from the airport, so I am hoping her flight is on time. That would be really exciting.

Then, in the evening, I'm taking my daughter to a Tigers game. She is in love with the right fielder, Magglio Ordonez... The things I won't do for her. The theme tomorrow is celebrating the contributions of Hispanics in baseball. I figured she might have a better chance of getting an autograph then. She's worth it. :D


:loveya: :hug: :loveya:

[billyskank]

35. Take a camera!

I wanna see MrsGrumpy & MissHoneychurch pictures! :bounce:

:loveya:

[ScreamingMeemie]

36. I will!

Remind me again tomorrow morning, because I am always hopeless when it comes to remembering a camera! :hi: :hug:

[Broken_Hero]

29. I remember those days

when my mother would take me out to get school stuff...always dressing me up ...all cordaroy for me...and striped shirts, with the little alligator symbol on it...and those Kangaroo shoes, with the pockets on them, where I could hide my cash...:)

[ScreamingMeemie]

30. IZod! I think it's making a comeback.

My mother made me wear corduroys as well. Only they weren't the cool wide ones, they had the narrow ribbing. :( I was teased quite a bit. In fact, one of MrG's first memories of me (we first met in 7th grade) was how my "cords" made my butt look big. Isn't that nice? :hi: :rofl: I forgot about those shoes!

[Broken_Hero]

31. yeah, i'm a child

born in the 70's, but raised in the 80's predominately...I remember a lot of fashion mistakes, and my mother was ontop of everything...I felt like a little dress up toy, to be honest. She even tried in junior high, but thats where the buck stopped...it was such a freedom, to pick and choose what I wanted for a change...:) At least you are giving your kid a choice...:) In high school I was a total Carhart/flannel/boot guy...:) Still would be, if I could afford those clothes...Carharts are spendy!...:hi:

[ScreamingMeemie]

33. My boyfriend in high school, between the MrG years, was a carhart

flannel wearer. When my son was born we bought him a little pair of carhart overalls. Everytime he wore them it cracked me up. My son is a jeans and polo shirt kid. He likes the "skater" shirts too. As in these layered look shirts that all the skate boarding kids wear. My son has never even been on a skate board. :rofl: