Clothes are one of those things that you need to buy in order to live. Unless you’re in a nudist colony or really really good with sewing, you’ll probably buy clothes. Given that my parents have taught me good financial sense, it seems pretty stupid to be buying jeans that cost a hundred and fifty dollars. I could buy three tanks of gas for that much! On the same token though, WalMart jeans just don’t cut it. They wear out incredibly fast and the replacement cost sometimes outweighs what you can get at a higher end store on a good sale with a coupon. 
So I’ve started trying to put a little more money and a little less frugality into my clothing purchases. I shop around and use coupons, but I try to buy things that are good and not thing sthat need to be replaced right away because frankly – they suck.
Only I have one problem with this. Belts.
Belts are stupid. Not the idea behind them, or the functionality of them, but the way companies think they can get off charging so much damn money for a little piece of stupid leather that may or may not hold your pants up and will definitely call attention to your waist. Even WalMart rarely sells them for less than 12 or 15 dollars. It’s DUMB. Because the fact of the matter is, they’re limited (one function), half the designs are the same, and even worse that if you are using them and get close to where the holes end, you have to buy A NEW belt for MORE money!! UGh. I hate it.
Seriously. I don’ get where belts get off charging 25 dollars when they don’t even work as a functional belt. And it’s not that it’s a fancy one – that’s the average price per belt at the standard department store (a statistic which I just blatantly made up). It’s dumb. Super dumb and I hate it.
What I hate even more however is the belt I bought last week to hold my pants up tore today. TORE RIGHT APART. Seriously. It was getting all strangely stretched where it buckled and the hole that I was using on it seemed to be misshapen and not able to do a proper job. And then today I went to undo it and part of it came RIGHT OFF. Sad thing too is that of the two belts I bought for work out here, that was the more costly of the two.
Which brings me to conclude the following – cheap clothes are cheap (duh), but belts are stupid be they stupidly costly, stupidly made, or stupidly stupid in that they’re both.
Belts suck.
