Cheapskate Or Economically Wise?

I don't know about you if you are cheapskate or just economically wise or in other words being "thrifty."

Well, I know of so many people who are very "thrifty." It's better to be called thrifty rather than being cheap. Consider myself being in the "club of being thrifty but wise."

There are so many shoes I had in the past that I keep hiding in the closets and I can't throw them away or give them away because I know there will be a time that I can wear them on special occasions. I don't know when but you know someday. I am wearing a house slippers that I can't throw away because it is comfortable on my feet but anyone who could see this old pair of slippers will cringe and frown. I only used the pair of slippers at home not wearing them at the supermarket or at the mall. You probably wonder why the First lady Mrs. Marcos still have those 3,500 pairs of shoes simply because she also doesn't want to throw her old shoes. There are too many showbiz personalities whose shoes are probably over that 3,500 pairs of shoes of Mrs. Marcos and some of them do not throw their shoes away. How many pairs of shoes do you think each one of us have in a life time if you'll have to count them? People from wealthy families will wear pair of shoes once or twice then donate their shoes but when they heard of Mrs. Marcos shoe collection they would rather keep their shoes to be the next in Guiness World Record of  Shoes count. I heard one showbiz personality has reached a collection of 5,000 pairs of shoes. Wow! She probably owned a shoe store or owned a shoe factory business.

If it's not shoes then clothing, dress, fashion tops, pants and accessories. For me everything that I bought is precious. You wont believe that the dresses I had since the time I got married have them all in my closet and suitcases. Unfortunately most of my dresses that time were size 0-1. It's hard to believe that my waistline measured 21" (23" with allowance because I don't like wearing too tight-fitting dress). Some other clothes had given them away.

Not too many dress, tops (blouse), pants that truly fit customers because some of these items are not your size when they were sewn at the factory. They have their own models for their clothing. Alterations are made to make clothes fit for you or just fit to your size in fitting rooms at the retail outlets to make sure before you buy them. Most of the time those who are in a hurry end up coming back for exchange at the customer service's counter. I bought two blouses (discounted) on sale and can't return them. I first thought I like those clothes but when I get home don't really like them. Yeah this is me. I am fickleminded.

I bought a pair of shoes last year before Christmas, it was not even on sale and I bought them. At home... while I parade wearing that pair of shoes for a minute or two then realized I don't really like it. OMG! What a waste! Yeah that's what pisses of my husband. But when I like shoes, shoes that I really, really like I will buy two pairs of same style of shoes, same brand but different colors (one pair of shoes in black and one pair of shoes in white color). It's the same thing with fashionable tops, two of different colors either blue and the other top in orange color. Sometimes I would rather have white colored blouse and another blouse in red color (same style, same brand blouse). My sense of fashion is either weirdly strange or fashionable or maybe old-fashioned?