Thrift Shop Thursday!!
Do you remember a time when you
really, really wanted a special
brand name pair of shoes...
Or...
Maybe it was a popular hair style...
feathered hair...
Later, it was the spiral perm...
Does that ring a bell??
As a young teen there were a handful of
must-haves that I felt I absolutely had to have...
That feeling of "wanting the latest and greatest"
coupled with the actual reality
of obtaining those fashion trends
were two very different things...
I think for me it began in Jr. High...
Coca-Cola clothes were on point... and I had
one very cool sweatshirt...
and then,
there was the pair of jeans...
those expensive...
"everybody has them..." brand of jeans...
I never owned a pair.
No one in our family wore $99 pants,
let alone, a single pair of jeans
for a growing teen...
for a growing teen...
Nope, not going to happen...
I knew better than to ever put those jeans
on any wish list.
I can say that as much as I may
have longed for mountains
of designer purses and clothing...
I was never trendy... I tried... but fell way short...
Feathered hair...it's not for everyone...
I could maybe pull off one brand-name fashion
a season...
However, my fashions depended largely on
my baby-sitting income.
Even when I baby-sat every weekend...
There just wasn't enough to make my
1980's fashion dreams a reality.
(In hindsight, that was probably a good thing
15 year-old kids don't have the best fashion-sense in general.)
While I may have hoped to be trendy...
and ultimately to be more
like one of the "cool kids"
...my baby-sitting budget had very different
ideas about how all of that would turn out.
Fast forward to my adult years...
Older and so much wiser... (maybe)
As a stay-at-home mother of two children...
I found myself again... really, really wanting something...
