My son is going to his first H.S. dance. We went to Goodwill and got him a suit,

[crim son]

wool, double-breasted and gorgeous, for $9.99! I couldn't believe our luck. His best friend spent $300 on a new suit and Juergen's is nicer. :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[Oeditpus Rex]

1. Does it have that Goodwill Aroma™?

[crim son]

5. No, but the shirt does. The suit isn't even a bit wrinkled.

I'll have everything cleaned.

[Oeditpus Rex]

12. My mom was a clerk at a Goodwill when I was a kid

She was always bringin' stuff home. Seemed like half our house was furnished with Someone Else's Stuff.

Hell, I've still got stuff that came from there. Especially books. :D

[crim son]

16. I don't remember growing up with the Goodwill stuff,

but it surely helped me survive college and the early working years. Now I'm back and you know... nothing's changed!

[Radio_Lady]

49. In Boston, it's Building 19 that helped outfit our home and family. Owner Jerry Ellis and his...

wife were purported to have furnished their (sumptuous) home with Building 19 stuff!

http://www.bostonglobe.com/advertiser/datacenter/case_studies.aspx?id=735

And they still have their FUNKY CIRCULARS!

http://www.building19.com/

[crim son]

11. Hey, where'd you get the TM mark?

I want it.

[no name no slogan]

15. Here's how you do it

do an ampersand character (shift-7 on most keyboards) followed by "trade;" (without the quotes).

™

That should do it.

[crim son]

19. Hokay.

™

Let's see.
It works!

[jmowreader]

58. That's how you do it in Windows...

Some fun characters on a Mac:

Trademark (™) — Option-2
Copyright (©) — Option-g
Registered (®) — Option-r
To put an umlaut over a vowel — Option-u, then type the vowel you want accented
Upside-down exclamation point — Option-1
Ellipsis (…) — Option-semicolon
Long dash, instead of two hyphens (the em-dash) — Option-shift-minus
Medium dash (en-dash) — Option-minus

[Oeditpus Rex]

18. alt-0153

™

You can find 'em all at Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Character Map.

:hi:

[crim son]

20. Thank you.

I'm going to check it out now. :D

[evlbstrd]

53. On a Mac

it's Option-2.

[billyskank]

2. woo!

:hi:

[crim son]

6. Hiya billyskank!

:hi: :bounce: :hi:

[billyskank]

8. Hello.

:hug:

:hi:

[MrCoffee]

3. did you take it off any sweet jumps?

[crim son]

7. Eh, what's that?

:eyes:

[Pierre.Suave]

41. HAHAHA

Awesome Napoleon Dynamite reference there.

:rofl:

[crim son]

47. Which explains why I didn't get it.

:(

[Pierre.Suave]

52. Go rent Napolean Dynamite

it is worth it, it is a great movie.

[skater314159]

50. YESSSSSSSSSSS!

HECK YES I DID!

[Midlodemocrat]

4. Great!! I just LOVE his name!!!

Hope he has a great time!

[crim son]

10. Thanks!

I hope so too. It's a girl-ask-guy affair, so he's lucky to be going.

[MissMillie]

9. terrific

don't forget the coursage!

[crim son]

13. I haven't. I need to order it yet but the florist is half a block away

so that's no problem. He's gonna be DA (14-yr-old) MAN! :rofl:

[MissMillie]

25. I hope you'll share pictures

Here's my guy:

3 military balls and 2 proms







yes, this one is w/ me

[crim son]

28. Your son is handsome, and has good taste in ladies...

Yes, I'll share pics. My daughter is going to the same dance and went all over the state looking for a "unique" dress. She found one! It's strange how they grow up, isn't it? Thank goodness I still have Henry, the eight-year-old.

[MissMillie]

32. I never figured out who gave my son permission to grow up

when I find the bastid, I'm gonna thump 'im.

[KitchenWitch]

29. I love that your son was not afraid to go to a dance with a taller woman!

:D

[MissMillie]

yeah, he's cool like that

he's tall on the inside, and he knows that women are much more than what they look like.

[KitchenWitch]

36. Being extremely tall on the outside, I dated a lot of tall on the inside men

Did not matter to me one bit, and thankfully there were men for which it did not matter to them as well (sorry for the awkward phrasing).

[NewJeffCT]

14. I never went to a high school dance

I hope your son has a good time!

[crim son]

21. I'm pretty sure you didn't miss much.

I went to two and both times it was a miserable experience.

[NewJeffCT]

39. I was miserable not going

I was too shy to ask any girls, and back in the early to mid 80s, girls asking boys was still not something that was done. So, I was pretty depressed at the time, even though I knew it was mostly girls standing on one said of the room and boys standing on the other.

[Tektonik]

17. 300 bucks?

Juergen's gonna have more money for a late night dinner date after the dance than his friend :D

[crim son]

22. He would, but he will be instructed to get his

14-yr-old ass back here right after the last slow dance ends. :rofl:

[Tektonik]

23. you better lock his bedroom window

:o

[RadiationTherapy]

24. When I score like that -

I always think "someone died and they were MY size!!" :-(

[NMDemDist2]

26. I always think "wow, they bought this when they were still my size...

now they must be bigger"

:rofl:

[KitchenWitch]

31. ding ding ding

but darn, at size 14, I am not finding as many things anymore....

[crim son]

30. Laughing. A "glass half empty" type of person, are you?

Me too!

[RadiationTherapy]

38. I am a glass half empty type, but I am disappointed less often

than those pesky "half-fullers".

[KitchenWitch]

27. I love me the thrift stores!

My latest find was an old style Coach bag for $10. I have been looking for that bag for YEARS!

[crim son]

33. Sometimes you can really luck out, if you look regularly.

Ten bucks for a Coach bag? Not bad!

[NMDemDist2]

55. I carrying mine this winter too

it's a goodie, thanks for the heads up on those

:hi:

[lost-in-nj]

34. I'll bet he looks

handsome .....

How can you be surprised a girl asked him to the dance....
your children are gorgeous....

don't forget the pics!!!


:hi:

lost

[crim son]

35. Hi lost!

You'll notice I didn't work up the courage to pick up the phone yesterday. Starbucks Anarchist can tell you that I have serious problems with the phone, and I apologize.

I guess I was surprised because HE was surprised. I think my kids are nice looking! And I will definitely have some pics by Monday. :hi: :pals:

[Shine]

37. Good idea!

:thumbsup:
I'm surprised he wanted to go that fancy, but hey, more power to him! My 8th grader son usually just wears a nice long-sleeved shirt and some jeans. Maybe he'll feel differently in hs! :D

:hi:

[crim son]

40. This is the most formal dance of the school year, apparently.

Some of the boys wear tuxedos. But in middle school he would have been laughed out of the school if he'd shown up in a tux or a suit, so maybe your son will have the same experience. :hi:

[Joey Liberal]

42. Who's buying the beer?

Kidding. I went to high school in the 70's:).............

[hedgehog]

43. My daughters buy from the thrift shops almost exclusively

It's their way of getting around the "made in a sweat shop" dillema. They look like they spent a fortune. They must have their grandmother's fashion sense.

[DarkTirade]

44. I've got an incredibly bad-ass leather trench coat that I got at Goodwill...

25 bucks. If I'd just bought that much leather and made the damn thing myself it woulda cost me at least a hundred. :)

I was actually looking at the leather coats there because I've dabbled a bit in leatherwork, but leather is expensive so I was hoping to buy something that I could cut up. But the coat was just far too awesome to cut up.

And now that I live in a place where we actually have winter, it comes in handy.

[mainegreen]

45. Be sure to take photos!

As embarrassing as possible.
Its your duty as a parent!

:D

[NewWaveChick1981]

46. His name isn't Napoleon Dynamite, is it?

:hi: :P :rofl: Just kidding, of course. Glad he got such a good deal!

[texanwitch]

48. I love resale shops and yard sales.

You never know what you will find.

I have a really nice desk that was painted this really ugly color but underneath it had beautiful wood.

Good find on that suit.

[SPKrazy]

51. Snap some pics lady

:hi:

sounds like a good deal...

:)

[skater314159]

54. Goodwill and resale shops are AWESOME! n/t

[Catshrink]

56. Goodwill is awesome -- espcially the 1/2 price Saturdays.

That's when I pick up a lot of my books. And I got a great pair of Liz Claiborne jeans for $3. Can't beat it.

[IzaSparrow]

57. I shopped at Goodwill all through HS...

it allows you to claim your own style. Tell him to stick with it.