Oh honey, that story just breaks my heart! I'm the queen of cheap but if a $108 hoodie keeps you warm and happy, that's not really much at all for a garment that gives one bliss. My mom, a Depression baby more frugal than most of us could ever imagine, used to say "It's only expensive if you don't wear it." It sounds as if you get a great deal of happiness, warmth and wear out of the hoodie, so really you didn't pay much at all for it, not in the great sum of life anyway. A life we all know in which it isn't always so easy to find happiness, especially not in simple everyday enduring joys. But then it's no one else's business anyway how much it did cost, or what you spent, because, well, it's not anyone's business.
Reading the stories in this thread leaves me with a great deal of sadness. Why are people so obsessed with determining whether someone else can afford something, and then quickly passing judgement like an executioner because of it? What right do people have to do this, and to be so nasty, cruel and condescending when they do? Absolutely none, but yet they do it. What a horror human nature is sometimes.
Darkangel, I hope you continue to enjoy your hard-earned hoodie and ignore the clods. You deserve all the happiness it brings you! :blossom:
