Yes, I do. I saw their flyer last Sunday for boy's Wrangler and Route 66 jeans for $7.00 a pair.
I do not shop there for quality customer service, sparkling store, or prestige. The checker who rung me up last night had blue hair--I am not kidding! I told her I would see her in three months when my kid grew out of these jeans, she said to me, "I'll be here" with a half grin. Nor do I shop there often. Only when I find jeans at $7.00 a pair, so about two or three times a year.
JM is a big boy. He is six, but wears eights. Why? His birthfather is six four, and he inherited the NBA gene. I can't keep him in pants, honestly. This is a true scenario--one week, a pair of jeans fits him and the next time he wears them, they look like capris. No joke. One time I said to him very seriously, "JM, you need to stop growing. This is getting ridiculous." He gave me the most helpless look, and I gave him a hug and told him I was kidding. The running joke now is that he isn't obeying me in terms of stopping growing, he gets it now and joins the joking.
I think his current growth spurt has settled down for now. And we just got the back to school notice from his school along with the Kmart flyer.
You can see why I don't want to spend a ton of money on jeans. In three months, I'll have to do it again. Off to Kmart we go.
First thing--pile of Pepsi products in 2 liter bottles for .79 cents a bottle. Ummmm....nice! Because we all know that Diet Pepsi is my favorite and truly is the gold standard for which all diet sodas compare, right? I have already spent money, and haven't even gotten away from the entrance.
We pass the men's section to the boy's section. Men's polo shirts, nice polo shirts on clearance for $7.00. Nice! Picked up three of those for the hubbie. Again, haven't made it to boy's section yet, and I'm almost $30.00 into this excursion. We also pass the boys underwear section, and of course, good deals there. Had an incident last week with underwear too tight....suffice it to say, I want grandkids someday!! Sigh.....$40.00 into this and we're about five yards from the jeans!
We find the boy's section, and we find the golden jeans. We pick up several pair of them after JM tries them on. This whole time, BH is a whirling dervish around us. That is one nice thing about Kmart, the kids can act up without too much embarassment. Where's my husband? Good question. He's at home scraping paint off of our eighty year old house. Trust me, the NFL channel was not being utilized.
JM is asking me about the plastic security things on the pants that require the checker to take them off. I explain to him that is how they keep people from stealing them. He asks, "But we're going to buy them right? So how do we get them off?" We then have a discussion about how stores lose a lot of money because people steal things, etc. Good lesson in how to be a person of integrity, etc. We then walk through the store looking for security cameras and waving to them. All my years in retail helped that whole conversation.
Oh, on the way out....boy's long sleeved polo shirts for $7.00. Nice, grab some of those. JM found a tshirt on clearance with a skateboarder on it. Score for $4.00. Nothing for BH because he's wearing all this in four years. Getting my $7.00 worth out of these shirts and jeans!
"Momma, you say I am an eight, but I am six years old."
"You're right. You are a size eight but you're six years old."
"Cooooooool!"
I do not shop there for quality customer service, sparkling store, or prestige. The checker who rung me up last night had blue hair--I am not kidding! I told her I would see her in three months when my kid grew out of these jeans, she said to me, "I'll be here" with a half grin. Nor do I shop there often. Only when I find jeans at $7.00 a pair, so about two or three times a year.
JM is a big boy. He is six, but wears eights. Why? His birthfather is six four, and he inherited the NBA gene. I can't keep him in pants, honestly. This is a true scenario--one week, a pair of jeans fits him and the next time he wears them, they look like capris. No joke. One time I said to him very seriously, "JM, you need to stop growing. This is getting ridiculous." He gave me the most helpless look, and I gave him a hug and told him I was kidding. The running joke now is that he isn't obeying me in terms of stopping growing, he gets it now and joins the joking.
I think his current growth spurt has settled down for now. And we just got the back to school notice from his school along with the Kmart flyer.
You can see why I don't want to spend a ton of money on jeans. In three months, I'll have to do it again. Off to Kmart we go.
First thing--pile of Pepsi products in 2 liter bottles for .79 cents a bottle. Ummmm....nice! Because we all know that Diet Pepsi is my favorite and truly is the gold standard for which all diet sodas compare, right? I have already spent money, and haven't even gotten away from the entrance.
We pass the men's section to the boy's section. Men's polo shirts, nice polo shirts on clearance for $7.00. Nice! Picked up three of those for the hubbie. Again, haven't made it to boy's section yet, and I'm almost $30.00 into this excursion. We also pass the boys underwear section, and of course, good deals there. Had an incident last week with underwear too tight....suffice it to say, I want grandkids someday!! Sigh.....$40.00 into this and we're about five yards from the jeans!
We find the boy's section, and we find the golden jeans. We pick up several pair of them after JM tries them on. This whole time, BH is a whirling dervish around us. That is one nice thing about Kmart, the kids can act up without too much embarassment. Where's my husband? Good question. He's at home scraping paint off of our eighty year old house. Trust me, the NFL channel was not being utilized.
JM is asking me about the plastic security things on the pants that require the checker to take them off. I explain to him that is how they keep people from stealing them. He asks, "But we're going to buy them right? So how do we get them off?" We then have a discussion about how stores lose a lot of money because people steal things, etc. Good lesson in how to be a person of integrity, etc. We then walk through the store looking for security cameras and waving to them. All my years in retail helped that whole conversation.
Oh, on the way out....boy's long sleeved polo shirts for $7.00. Nice, grab some of those. JM found a tshirt on clearance with a skateboarder on it. Score for $4.00. Nothing for BH because he's wearing all this in four years. Getting my $7.00 worth out of these shirts and jeans!
"Momma, you say I am an eight, but I am six years old."
"You're right. You are a size eight but you're six years old."
"Cooooooool!"
2 comments:
I still feel really strange going to Kmart. It was such an uncool place when I was a kid. I remember once being there with my mom when I was in Jr. High and seeing one of my classmates down an aisle. I was mortified. We didn't speak to each other... He was probably equally mortified, I suppose.
But I did buy my curtains there and some table linens. Good old Martha Stewart. :o)
Love Martha! I do. She's the reason why Kmart didn't fold years ago. I know what you mean about strange. It's like this whole, "shh....we're shopping here, but don't tell anyone!" It's quite an interesting dynamic.
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