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Abercrombie…
By JLP | November 24, 2008
At this very moment I’m standing in an Abercrombie store waiting for my oldest son to pick out some jeans. You know, I could handle their prices if I didn’t feel like I was buying garage sale crap!
More thoughts later…
FYI - my son is putting some of his own money towards the purchase.
UPDATE: I would have typed all this earlier but it’s too hard to type with my thumbs on a BlackBerry.
Anyway, here’s the deal we have with our boys: We’ll pay up to the price of a decent brand of jeans (say, Levis, which are $22 a pair) and if they want something more expensive, they can pay the rest.
My oldest son (he’s 13) was looking at Jeans in Abercrombie and he told his brother that he should look too. My youngest son said, “I’m not paying that much for jeans! I’ll take Levis.”
I smiled inside.
We ended up buying a pair of decent-looking Abercrombie jeans for around $55. My oldest son will have to chip in over $30 for those jeans. It’s his money and he’ll have to figure out for himself whether or not it was a wise purchase.
Life would be so much easier if kids didn’t care what other kids thought about them. But, that’s just not the reality.
There will be some of you who don’t agree with the way my wife and I handle these situations. That’s fine. I understand.
Topics: Kids and Money, Miscellaneous |
