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Just looking for a cheap (meaning less than $15) pair of bedroom slippers to replace the ones I have that are falling apart, and it's proving elusive. Last time I needed some, I just popped into TJ Maxx or Marshall's (I forget which), found a decent $12 pair in maybe five minutes, made my way to the cash register, paid for them, and was on my way. Not any more. I couldn't find any slippers at all in either store... not the two closest to my home which I visited yesterday, or two others several miles away which I visited this afternoon. What dreadful, awful places those stores have become. Messy, unkempt, merchandise just dumped in a sloppy, chaotic heap on shelves, or worse, strewn about all over the floor... not to mention the people you have to put up with in those places. I nearly had a meltdown. I don't know if I can ever set foot in either of those stores again. Both chains seem to have really gone down the toilet from what they were even just a few years ago. TJ Maxx, in particular, was great back in the 1980s. I don't know what happened to the place. It used to be a wonderful outlet to shop for designer labels and get them dirt cheap. In fact, my roommate at the time, David, became an expert at doing just that... the kid never made more than $5 an hour back then, but always managed to be very sharply dressed. And I learned how to buy really nice Perry Ellis shirts and such, for about $10 each, which would last for years and years. But now the place is a dump. A veritable junkyard. So I'm still sans new slippers. Oh, I saw a few at DSW Shoe Warehouse yesterday, and some Dr. Scholl's at Famous Footwear today, but I really don't feel like paying $30-$75 for something I'm only going to wear around my apartment that will probably disintegrate in two years anyway. This coming week I shall check at Target, and/or Kmart or Sears, all of which have locations reasonably close to where I live that aren't too terribly dreadful. I'm sure I'll find something. I hate shopping. Hate it with a passion. Can't believe some people do it for recreation. To me shopping is a necessary evil, and I only do it when I absolutely have to. And right now, it's been so long that I'm grossly out of practice. I actually set foot in an Old Navy today, for the first time in my entire life. Even though they've had stores near me for years and years. That shows how often I shop for clothes. I don't work outside the home these days, anyway... haven't for nearly nine years now. And when you don't go to work every day, it's amazing how few clothes you can get by with. Most of my wardrobe nowadays consists of some T-shirts and shorts for summer, and some sweatshirts and jeans for winter. "Dressier" items are a handful of button-down shirts and pairs of Dockers pants, for those occasions when my everyday "slob" clothes just won't do. And since those occasions are few and far between, those clothes last me for years and years without wearing out. So I haven't bought any new ones for quite some time. I wear items until they morph into rags, then replace whatever's needed, one item at a time. And that's enough. ~~~~~~~~~Watched "Mother, May I Sleep with Danger?" on Lifetime tonight. I'd seen the movie maybe twice before, and it's become one of my favorites of that genre. Just what is Tori Spelling complaining about, anyway? Right now, I think I would love it if some young guy as hot and dreamy as Ivan Sergei were to obsess insanely over me, stalk me everywhere, lock me away in a cabin with him out of reach of friends and family and everyone else, and have his way with me whenever and however he wanted. And cook for me as an added bonus!  Geez, that would sure be better than being ignored... Wouldn't it? I guess one person's nightmare is another person's fantasy. Or am I just twisted? My other favorite Tori Spelling movie is "Co-ed Call Girl", where she attracts the attention of a very hot-looking pimp, who offers her what I would consider a dream job... with dream pay and benefits to boot. Some people just have all the luck, I guess. I guess I am just a sick little puppy... heh.
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