Should I buy a tshirt today?

[bill_schubert]

I mostly wear shorts and tshirts. Being the slave to fashion that I am. And living in a hot region. Winter, for me, consists of opening up a plastic bin, taking out what is there and wearing it for a couple of months. Washing and returning it. And back to shorts and tshirts.

My clothes get worn until they are no longer useful. I had one medium cool weather shirt that I put elbow patches on so it would last another year or two. I'm not so interested in new stuff and would happily buy at Goodwill if it didn't kind of freak me out.

So I make stuff last.

BUT, it does wear out. So now I'm on the see/saw of buying a bunch of stuff now at good prices (aka - pre tariff and low wage workers), buying American made stuff at the exorbitant prices that everything will cost in six months, or just waiting and buying when I need it.

Buying what I want is easy. Go to Amazon and don’t worry about origin. I looked for Made in America stuff at a store site and the t-shirts are around $17 per t-shirt. Amazon essentials are half that. And zero cost shipping, of course. And great reviews.

This whole Smoot/Hawley redux is definitely going to impact us and I’m trying to think of things I can buy right now before the cost goes up. I’m thinking that half of the Amazon casual clothing inventory comes from VietNam who we courted so strongly so we could screw China and now are just slamming. Again. I know I’ve got a lot of clothes that are from there.

We’re going to hold our cars together with bailing wire for the foreseeable future and have recently replaced appliances.

So, clothes are the only thing I can think of that will matter and over which I have any control at all.

Fixed income living in a nutshell.

And this just in from the Financial Times:

I mostly wear shorts and tshirts. Being the slave to fashion that I am. And living in a hot region. Winter, for me, consists of opening up a plastic bin, taking out what is there and wearing it for a couple of months. Washing and returning it. And back to shorts and tshirts.


My clothes get worn until they are no longer useful. I had one medium cool weather shirt that I put elbow patches on so it would last another year or two. I'm not so interested in new stuff and would happily buy at Goodwill if it didn't kind of freak me out.


So I make stuff last.


BUT, it does wear out. So now I'm on the see/saw of buying a bunch of stuff now at good prices (aka - pre tariff and low wage workers), buying American made stuff at the exorbitant prices that everything will cost in six months, or just waiting and buying when I need it.


Buying what I want is easy. Go to Amazon and don’t worry about origin. I looked for Made in America stuff at a store site and the t-shirts are around $17 per t-shirt. Amazon essentials are half that. And zero cost shipping, of course. And great reviews.


This whole Smoot/Hawley redux is definitely going to impact us and I’m trying to think of things I can buy right now before the cost goes up. I’m thinking that half of the Amazon casual clothing inventory comes from VietNam who we courted so strongly so we could screw China and now are just slamming. Again. I know I’ve got a lot of clothes that are from there.


We’re going to hold our cars together with bailing wire for the foreseeable future and have recently replaced appliances.


So, clothes are the only thing I can think of that will matter and over which I have any control at all.


Fixed income living in a nutshell.

And this just in from the Financial Times:



Dana is doing well. Her pills from this morning:




Dana and Toby. He's SO happy that she is home from the hospital:




Note the tricked out walker. Dana in a nutshell.

Comments

[maisydaisy]

Dana, Toby and the walker are so beautiful.
Wishing Dana a good recovery.

[msconduct]

I'm very impressed that Dana is able to have Toby on her lap only a couple of days post-surgery. And she's looking very well.

[anais_pf]

I recommend Lands End for the sorts of clothes you want, and I would stock up on maybe a year's worth of clothes, now. I also recommend that you reconsider Goodwill. My partner gets all of his jeans (those are pretty much the only pants he wears) at our local thrift store for anywhere from $1.75 to $10 per pair, in decent condition. Just wash and dry everything before you wear it. I'd shop there myself if I wasn't such a non-standard size.