7:29 am: I am now on my second day of shopping for work shoes, and have yet to meet success.The requirements: low heels no higher than 1″ so that I can run around like a maniac all day if need be; black; not patent leather; closed toe; less than $100. The hoped-fors: kitten heel, although if that fails, I’ll settle for stacked heel; less than $50.
7:34 am: I prepare to dive into eBay, given the prices at Zappos have gone through the roof, Amazon has proven hopeless, and the temps are going to be too cold for me for the next few days to actually venture out of the house and into a store. Perhaps if I had a coat, I might not have such negative feelings about cold weather. Maybe I should consider finally getting a coat.
7:35 am: I contemplate buying a coat, but reject that possibility almost immediately.
7:36 am: I open a separate browser window for searching eBay, then run into the bathroom to get the paintbrush to finish painting the hallway.
7:38 am: While in the bathroom getting the paintbrushes, I am sidetracked by a bottle of hair glaze. I contemplate it for a moment, then dump it on my hair. I rush back out of the bathroom and discover Kate has suggested 6pm.com. I open a new browser window to check them out.
7:46 am: 6pm.com looks promising. Prices are much better than Zappos.
7:50 am: While browsing a promising selection of kitten heel work shoes, I mourn the days I could live in tennis shoes and Birkenstocks.
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Weather update: Spouse just turned on the AC.
Air conditioner???? I just turned the heat up. Temps are predicted to plunge 20+ degrees in an hour or so, and I’ve learned (the hard way) that it’s easier to keep a house warm than get a house warm.
You’re so lucky!
It’s 63 degrees but 100% humidity and he’s dying. I don’t like the humidity and was reasonably comfortable, but he can’t handle it. So to keep the peace, I pay the electric bill and be quiet.
Yikes! Swampiness. Well, on the bright side, 100% humidity is bad for houses, so your house is probably enjoying it, too. I had to deal with mold in my other place, so I kind of learned that lesson. I’m having to deal with mold here, too, but not as bad. At least, not as far as I know.
8:20 am: I find exactly the right shoes on eBay for a reasonable price ($44), but they’re the wrong color. I consider dying them, then remember my disastrous experiences with such in the past.
8:21 am: I adjust the settings on my computer so that I can actually see something other than dark shoe-like blobs on the monitor. Several pairs have been rejected already for being nearly perfect except for too high a heel. I must have a low heel so that I can scamper hither and yon throughout the hallways of the college, unhampered by my shoes!
8:29 am: Shit! I forgot I put color glaze on my hair! I rush into the bathroom to wash it off.
9:01 am: I am forced to pass on a spectacular pair of leopard skin loafers for only $3.99 because the seller requires payment by Paypal.
9:02 am: I up my shoe size on all my searches by half a size, in order to ____________ the pool of available work shoes at a reasonable price. This act moves me into an entirely new dimension of shoes. I suddenly remember that there’s a chance I did this the last time I bought shoes, and it didn’t work out too well. I rush to closet to investigate further.
9:04 am: My suspicions are proven right: I did indeed buy shoes one half size larger. It proved to be not entirely disastrous – after all, I did wear them almost every day for months because they were the perfect work shoe. However, they kept falling off my feet, which is a problem when you’re trying to run up and down the hallways like a maniac. Still, it might be worth it – I decide to go for it, given myh real shoe size is the most common size in the entire world, or so it seems, and all the decent shoes are always sold out by the time I get around to trying to find any.
Another eBay odd shoe tale: I just saw a pair of brand new pointe shoes (the kind dancers wear to stand on their toes) in women’s size 10 wide.
9:33 am: Having raced through the house gathering all the dirty laundry, dumped it into washer, and started a load, then given the pups carrots, I decide to go ahead and just buy the same &^%%$# pair of shoes I’ve been wearing for the last 8 months at Zappos for twice the price of what I paid for them originally. I put 2 pairs in my cart, one size 7.5 and one size 8. I then dash to eBay to see if the ones they were selling in brown are still there. If so, they’re mine, dammit!
9:39 am: I bid on a pair of the same shoes I’ve been wearing for the last 8 months except this time, they’re the right size, but the wrong color. I’ll just have to dye them, dammit! The price on eBay is $30 less than Zappos. I have to pay shipping, true, but that still leaves it $20 less than Zappos.
9:50 am: My entire attention is focused on the shoes i have bid on at eBay. If I get them at the current bid, I’ll pay $32 less for them than they’re selling for at Zappos. If I win them, it means the end of the personal hell of trying to find good shoes at a decent price when your shoe size is the most common on the entire freakin’ planet, or so it seems. Dear Thunderbeings and Deities of the Skies, please make it so!
No shopping for shoes today. I am off to buy invitations for the big birthday party. All the plans are firmed up. We will have chicken and potato salad for the humans and a meat cake for the doggies. Later I am going to the ranch and listen to music. My ankle is not ready for dancing yet.
We are also planning our Christmas dinner to be held at my house.
10:04 am: I won the shoes on eBay! I now have two pairs of work shoes, both Born shoes and both purchased on eBay for reasonable prices! Now, I almost look like I’m worth the amount of money they’re paying me at work, and I can turn my attention to other matters … like finding a white work shirt.
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