Posted on 04/01/2018 5:09:20 AM PDT by Hojczyk
A Georgia mother gave her 13-year-old son a lesson in humility after she noticed he was belittling his classmates at school for shopping at stores like Walmart and Goodwill.
Cierra Brittany Forney, fed up with her son’s “entitled” attitude, decided to serve him a slice of humble pie by making him shop at the Goodwill store he mocked his classmates for shopping at—and posted about the experience on Facebook.
“I don’t tolerate that,” Forney wrote. “Today, he took his own ($20) to the goodwill to buy clothes to wear the entire week to school. Whatever he found is what he would have to wear. He isn’t happy and shed a few tears but I firmly believe in 15 years he will look back and laugh at the day his Mom made him shop at goodwill.”
children was partly to blame for her son’s attitude but that she is trying to curb that habit.
advertisement “I had my son when I was 15 and my husband was 17, and because we had our kids so young, we were adamant that they weren’t going to go without because of our decision. So we spoiled them,” she said.
Despite her son’s initial reluctance to embrace his mother’s wisdom, Forney says he is being a “good sport” about it and starting to let the message sink in.
“He’s getting what I’m saying,” she said. “He’s been a good sport.”
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actually the goodwill and other similar stores are usually filled with the used closed of rich people.
Better to have him serve food to the poor at a local food bank. Then he would meet face to face with the less fortunate.
I found that some of the veterans’ charity clothing stores have an awesome selection women’s and girls’ clothing, though often picked through for mens’.
We’ve been taking my kids, especially my girl, for years. Conversely, picking up girls’ formal wear dresses for $5-$10 and anything else for less meant she had lovely things for a good price and it didn’t look used/worn down.
But it means that when I take her now to Plato’s Closet or similar consignment, there’s no freak out, no yuck factor.
It is amazing that people think that. I started shopping at thrift stores in the 1980s. I have a closet full of clothes made by Brooks Brothers, Blass, etc... . As I tell others, people retire and die everyday.
My Dad was a clothes horse. When he died, my Step Mom took to the Salvation Army over 100 dress shirts from Joseph Banks and most were still in the plastic.
Think of thrift shops as hunting, not shopping. You can go into the same store 5 times and not buy a thing. But if the right person retires and donates, you can redo your whole wardrobe for less than $100. I bought my wife a mink stole for $20 and it fits her perfectly.
There are two tricks. 1) Know your manufacturers (quality lasts) and 2) It is not a bargain if you don't wear it (If you pay $10 for the $300 dress and don't wear it, then you wasted $10.).
I did a lot of shopping at thrift stores in my younger days. I still do but it is just harder to find things that fit. I was never humiliated by shopping at thrifts. Indeed I was quite pleased with the bargains I found.
I suppose many people’s presence on Facebook isn’t noticed by anyone but their families. Some reach a broader audience, of course.
I blame the nonstop distribution of “news” as much as anything else: they’ve got to get content somehow.
I think she wanted him to learn that some people have to be very careful with a dollar so not to take for granted the good things that she and hubby provide for him.
I taught my daughters to shop 2nd hand for many items they are hooked on auctions,estate sales garage sales,EBay, andCraigslist. They have found wonderful quality items. Don’t knock it.I bought a bowl at an estate sale that sold for$1600 on EBay.
try growing up with 6 siblings. you are just happy not to be wearing your brothers clothes as a girl.
“I go to The Salvation Army store on half-price day.”
LOL.
A friend of mine makes fun of me for going to Ross Dress for Less. I tell her “If they opened a place called ‘Dress for Less than Ross’ I’d switch.
Mine grew up with thrift store and garage sale clothes, toys and books. Brand new outfits with the store tags still on were 25 cents or whole bags for $1. All prom dresses were bought at Goodwill for $12. They were still the better dressed kids in school.
I get most of my aloha shirts at Goodwill or similar stores. Got two nice jackets, one a London Fog, for under $20 total. Also always on the lookout for cheap desk lamps.
$20 is laughable. He didn’t learn much. $20 was what I budgeted for the entire year to outfit each of ours and the were still the better dressed in school. At thrift store sale days and yard sales, 25 cents per article of clothing or $1 to fill a paper bag. Many items would still have the store tags on them or you could tell they hadn’t been worn. Kids grow too fast out of sizes.
Mine got all her prom dresses at Goodwill for $12. Brand new. One was a copy of one in some movie - black with pink polka dots.
Taught mine to sew and took a sewing machine when they left home.
I have found pans for cooking that cost over $70 each for under $5. Found a nice selection of carving knives for 50 cents each.
Do I have more kitchen stuff than I really need? Probably, but a really expensive pan for $5 is more than I can walk away from.
I’ve always been of the opinion a purse should never cost more than what it would ever hold. I’ve probably had half a dozen purses in my life because they get used until they fall apart. This last one was bought at the big church sale for $2 thinking the heavy leather would last for years. When I got home, I noticed it had a brand name and number so looked it up on the internet. $200!
I shop at a thrift store here in Jersey that supports a Hospital.Most of the inventory consists of very high-end clothing items that were donated by Doctors wives,who bought stuff for their husbands that they refused to wear.Consequently you can find Armani suits or Gucci loafers,unused,for 10 bucks.
Mr. b took his nephew to Goodwill to buy furniture when he bought his first family home.
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