November 14th, 2007 - Warped sense of cost…or the right one?
Yesterday, Maggie wore her winter coat for the first time. Both Eric and another person had trouble getting it to zip, so we figured the zipper was broken and we’d have to buy another coat. My comment: “Shucks! I think that was a $5 coat!” (As opposed to say a $2 or $3 coat….)
And my plan for buying another one was to go to the consignment shop which is going out of business and finding one for the same price or less.
When we got home, I tried out the zipper and had no problems, so we haven’t bought another coat. Which is nice, since this is a size 4 and should fit her next winter, too!
My husband pointed out that I should be glad it wasn’t a store-bought coat that cost $25 and we laughed. We can afford to buy a second $5 coat. And I started thinking about something I could do to re-purpose it (I wasn’t about to put in a new zipper. I don’t do much sewing and zippers are beyond me).