How many pairs of shoes do you really need, ladies?
Gotta wonder how they define the "same items." I buy steel toed work boots more frequently than any other shoes. And I can't remember the last time I bought a pair of slingback 3" heels.
I have 2 pairs of sneakers — one white, one black, plus one pair of dress shoes, which sit in a closet collecting dust because I seldom dress up anymore. That is it.
Yep. I forgot shoes. There are always about 20-30 pair lying around the house, in different rooms, for me to trip over, any one time.
How many pairs of shoes do you really need, ladies?
Gee, no kidding. The number of shoes is certainly a factor, but so is just about every clothes item, like underwear and dresses. My wife and daughter must have about 12 different brands of shampoo floating around the house at any given time. My son and I both stuck to one. And don’t even get me started on the female insistence that you can’t wear the same dress to a party twice. I have never heard a man (straight or otherwise) say the same thing about a suit or even a tux.
In the latter end of middle age, my wife has entered a new phase where she stocks up on household supplies for years at a time. We now have about 5 years worth of batteries, canned goods, chocolate, etc. I let her buy the ammo too.
“How many pairs of shoes do you really need, ladies?”
I refurbish and rent mobile homes. They’re nice when I’m done with them and they are all in a rural county and most are on wooded acreage, but they are in the lower tier of the rental market. Many of the people I rent to are on some form of assistance. Although most are employed and what you’d call lower middle class.
Numerous times I’ve had to unpack a closet or an entire room to do a repair. I’m astonished by how much STUFF these people have. In every case so far the stuff has been nice clothing or shoes or electronics. They own way more stuff than I do and they keep on buying more. To access a water heater I had to unpack some fifty pairs of ladies shoes, leather coats and vests, and very attractive party dresses. A young mother complained of mold so I unpacked crate after crate of new baby clothes from a closet. The mold problem was because she bought them, washed them, partially dried them, and then stuffed them into a closet and in crates in the room with no spaces for air circulation. Another couple had a room filled with cases of beer. (That one pissed me off as they were using their EBT cards to buy meat, selling the meat and buying beer.)
My point is that people, in this case just women, don’t have to buy the overpriced products or too many of a thing. They do it of their own free will. Are we supposed to feel guilty because other people buy more than they need?
“How many pairs of shoes do you really need, ladies?”
How many firearms does a man really need?
Honey, is that you?
We need different shoes to match different outfits. And we keep capitalism humming with our purchases, don’t forget.
I've never really been that much into shoes, at least the way some women are.
But then there's makeup, skin care, hair products, manicure and pedicure supplies, clothes, jewelry (I love silver and don't care for gold or stones, so I'm low maintenance there), etc.
It is what it is, and I accept the burden.
I’m guessing that I have in excess of 50.