Frugal Shoe Friday!
We’ve been having gentle fun on Twitter with the story of Michelle Obama’s $540 suede and patent sneakers.
Just search #shoefriday for a taste of what we’re wearing.
What’s on your feet today?
I’ve got $50 Banana Republic flats, which I thought were a splurge until I saw the other Michelle’s footwear. Usually wearing my ratty old New Balance sneakers, but have to leave the house today:
I don’t begrudge Michelle Obama’s fashion choices. The point is that she begrudges so many other Americans’ choices in how they earn their money. Will have more to say about that later. But for now: Happy Frugal Shoe Friday!
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Lorie Byrd weighs in.
Rick at Brutally Honest: “For the first time in her life, MichelleO is proud of…her shoes.”
A reminder of how Obama played the class card against John McCain with the “Seven Houses” bash:
And a reminder about the furor over McCain’s $520 Italian loafers.
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Gosh, this pair of Van’s was purchased after I graduated college in 2003. A pair of Vans “walking” shoes – approximately $39.99 at Kohl’s, if I’m not too mistaken.
No, Chappy, you are a dolt. We aren’t talking about men’s dress shows. MO spent $540 on a pair of women’s sneakers!
But thanks for proving my point. Nothing you and your leftard buddies do bothers you. It must be difficult for you to come here and have to deal with “commoners” like us…
Nothing like Rockports. $100 or less, last for a year or two, and are majorly comfy.
But, hey, with the coming taxes, we should all learn to be like hobbits, grow hair on our feet and go barefoot.
Retard, maybe you missed the 20 or so comments before mine and the 50 or so comments after mine from all the other posters talking about their choice of footwear.
Don’t be a tool just because you carry a torch for me.
D’oh…. Nice catch Chap.
Heading to the Dress Barn and getting my hair braided just in case.
Oh yes, the little black dog…
You’re a lifesaver! Thanks!
My humans wear mostly New Balance and Asic track shoes, although the female has a closet full of bargains. They make great chew-toys.
Mew
Mark Sanford 2012!
I get my shoes at Walmart. I wear sandals during the warm weather and dress boots when it’s cold. Both under $20. Last week we took our kids to the park. There was a box of running shoes with a free sign. My husband took several. Free works! Personally, I don’t like wearing shoes. I prefer to go barefoot or in socks.
I have THREE pairs of shoes. A pair of New Balance tennies that are about four years old, Payless Airwalk sandals, $10 on sale, and some slip on sandals that were also from Payless. I can’t imagine spending $540 on shoes, but if it’s HER money, it’s none of my business.
Her husband needs to stop spending all of MY money before I even earn it.
Here’s a guy who really did have “a working class upbringing”, unlike Her Majesty.
http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2009/05/maybe-stephon-marbury-could-teach-michelle-obama-something.html
So when Marbury became Starbury, earning $17 million a year, he said “enough” — he would come out with a line of sneakers that sell for less than $15. He teamed with Steve & Barry’s University Sportswear, a national chain with 200 stores, and came out with the Starbury line of sneakers, hats and jerseys. Nothing sells for more than $14.98.
Chap,
One more thing. Do you suppose when I get everything, I should go to Emerald City to “click my heels.”
I think I have found the right place to go.
http://www.emeraldcitypensacola.com/
No, Chappy, I read the other posts. The difference is that evidently I comprehended the posts. But that is nothing new.
And if you ever see me “carrying a torch” I suggest you and all your leftard buddies flee…
Why would she buy such ugly shoes? I don’t care how much something costs (I turned down some really ugly Gucci shoes–gasp) Did someone just have a pair of Lanvins lying around?
‘…these Louis Vuitton ones/you have to wait on them…I said gimme two pairs/I need two pairs/so I can get to stompin’ in my air force ones…’–Nelly
St. Lou–you best recognize.
We all have choices on where to place or spend what disposable income we have. The poster that mentioned how frugal most of us are as opposed to the spending of those attempting to tell us how/when/how much we ’should be’ spending is telling. Or, what bad kids we are because we find making our own decisions desirable over someone else telling us what to do.
I’d rather have one good outfit than an entire closet of poor quality stuff. That’s just me. But, then I still have a dress coat I’ve worn for 20 years – and bought that on clearance at Macy’s. It’s not what you earn but what you keep.
I have on some Ecco’s, but they were a whopping 75% off and only cost me $55…they are nice. At least I think they are. Nicer than Michelle Obama’s personality that’s for sure!
WE82:
Just WTF is your problem? Chap is among the most civil posters on this site.
So, am I to understand that you want to set Chap and others on fire?
Seriously, Chap can defend himself but it is stupid statements like that on this site that really annoy the hell out of me.
What possible “high ground” could you occupy when you turn around and accuse liberals of hateful rhetoric? All they need to do is turn around and point to YOU.
Posts like yours are precsiely what the liberals mock when they think of MM.
Z0,
If you don’t like my posts you don’t have to read them.
And for the record you are a dolt as well. Your last post proves it beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Have a nice day.
Gentlemen! You can’t fight in here! This is the War Room!
Now. Back to shoooooes. MMmmmmMmm
WE82:
I often don’t read your posts. The problem is anyone on the web can . So, when you start talking about setting people on fire because you don’t like their opinions it makes great fodder for the far-left to point at MM’s site and say we are all lunatics.
Yes, have a nice day indeed. Try not to set anyone on fire.
Michelle’s (Obama, not Malkin’s) are UH-
gly. Never could stand that look in sneakers.
Me? I’m wearing Dansko clog’s I bought at full price. Working in a Children’s Hospital one needs functional footwear. I got tired of my feet aching. Granted, these are old, stained and showing scuff marks. Ms Obama wouldn’t be caught under the weather in them.
I’m wearing Sorel snow boots and liners. They were $70 online and this is their second winter and they are holding up great. Soon: The brand new $100 Vasque Mantras. I have been waiting for summer to come so I can wear them. Where is Gorebal Warming when you need it?
ZA,
Thanks for again demonstrating you are an absolute driveling idiot. I said NOTHING about setting anyone on fire. Only you did.
It must be hard to type when you are drooling all over your hands and keyboard…
WE82:
No, you implied it. Why else should anyone flee if you are carrying a torch?
My mistake, perhaps you only intended to impale Chap with your pitchfork whilst you used the torch for lighting?
MEOW
ZeroIntelligence,
I am typing this response slowly as you evidently don’t read very quickly.
Read the following and think on it for some time. Take the advice to heart. It will be immensely helpful to you some day if you can master this simple bit of advice.
“Better to keep your mouth closed and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”
You’d almost think, in a thread about shoes, that the hostilities would be coming from the double-X humans…
I like Crocs, cuz you can put kewl little animals and stuff on them!
BTW I know $100 is a lot for a pair of shoes–at least to me it is. But if they last more than a year it’s worth it. Just sayin…
I’m barefoot right now, but my shoe of choice is flip flops…$3 from Walmart.
Crocs are the most awful development since pretty much anything. What an abomination!
All Crocs should be heaped into a pile so I can use my torch to right another great wrong…
WE82:
Do you honestly think your tired clichés and completely unoriginal jibes have even the slightest effect on me?
You are a perfect example of what the far-left mocks. It is lunatics like you that give the hippies and communists fodder to point at and paint all fiscally-conservative, pro-defense types as knuckle-dragging morons with torches and pitchforks.
I honestly think the Republican party would be much better off if venomous mouth-breathers like yourself just stayed at home.
Harsh…
but stereotypically delicious…!!!
Jeddite:
LOL. OK, good one.
Over my head.
ZeroIntelligence,
Yes, I believe my witty retorts will confound you and increase your moronic behavior. And by all indications my plan is exceeding my expectations!
And as I have said here many times, which once again proves the point that you suffer from poor reading and comprehension and retention skills, that I am NOT a Republican any longer. And it is idiots like you and John McCain that led me to abandon what has become an utterly failed institution.
Aw, man.
Er, aw, XY.
WE82:
Now that you mention it, I do recall you saying something about the Republican party not being conservative enough. Then again, I can’t be sure, like I said, I seldom read what you write anyhow.
Anyhow, presumably since the party platform didn’t involve setting people on fire or impaling them with pitchforks, that was a problem for you.
In any case, I didn’t like John McCain either, I felt he was conservative where I thought he should be liberal and vice-versa.
am wearing a stylish pair of black bandolino stacked heels…very comfortable and complement any outfit…got them on sale for around $30…have to say my favorite are a pair of brand new manolos autographed by the designer himself…will hang onto those until I can turn a tidy profit on them…
I don’t care for Michelle O at all. But, I am somewhat of a shoe snob – Cole Hahn, Paul Greene, Cole Hahn, Paul Greene…I regularly stimulate the economy.
Comfortable “sneakers” (as we used to call them, years ago). When you spend a lot of time on your feet, you need something that will be gentle to your feet.
This guy just really wants to prove my point.
Go back and read it one more time. S.L.O.W.L.Y. It hasn’t sunk in yet.
Oh, and I bet your shoes suck too…
I used to love Converse All Stars, the suede ones. When I was a teen all my white socks were stained blue in the shape of shoe uppers.
They look like bowling shows to me, and we all know the Obama’s can’t bowl.
zero,
Don’t even bother. WarEagle is one of the most clueless posters here. I could literally say “Apple pie is tasty” and he would twist or lie or simply be too dull to comprehend my statement such that out of his pea brain that I some how said “Me and Osama Bin Laden threw apples at a bus full of nuns on their way to heal the lepers.”
I walk half-marathons and hopefully will be walking my first marathon this fall.
Yeah-I’m nuts.
Because of how much walking I do I wear good quality running shoes-Mizuno Wave Rider 11. My “runabouts” are from last season and were about $90.00.
This year Mizuno is discontinuing the WR 11-so I got my serious pair for about $50.00.
My feet suffer early in the walks if I go the Walmart sneaker route.
I also have a pair of lime green Keen Ghillie sandals that I live in.
I KNEW IT! “Apple pie is tasty” is one of their code phrases! It is just like these twisted leftards to twist an All-American dessert into some terrible, anti-American meaning!
And Chappy HATES nuns and lepers!
I should’ve said that my runabout were my serious shoes during last years’ half-marathon season
You are soooo on your game today!
I have it on good authority that chap only dislikes leprous nuns.
Ah, but you’re missing the beauty of Crocs! Buy a pair for the wife, and every birthday,Mother’s day, Christmas, all you got to buy are just the little animals and decorations and stuff. You can go on forever, save a bundle!
I wish we could also get a thread on jewelry…
oooOOooOO
Well, with all the rain we’ve had the past few days, I’m wearing a pair of almost 30 year old LLBean Maine Hunting Shoes that a neighbor’s teen-aged son outgrew in less than a year. We were living in military housing in Frankfurt am Main in Germany at the time, and my neighbor just gave them to me. The shoes are ugly, but my feet are dry!
ECS
No, “Mischievous Cheese,” I had not overlooked the decorations sometimes adorning these abominations! And if I were to buy my wife something like that at Christmas I shouldn’t have to worry about gifts in subsequent years…
Maybe that is Baracks’s problem too?
Which housing area did you live in in Frankfurt am Main 30 years ago?
In segments like these in a thread…
I am always put in mind of the words of that American sage…
Rodney King…
Rodney King? Didn’t he play left field for the Mets in 1973?
Hey FLOTUS
I don’t make enough in a week BEFORE taxes to buy a pair of those. Can I get a shoe bailout?
My daughter wears Manolos too, and gets them off Ebay. Brand new, in the box, but ‘the seller’ thought their feet were just a tad smaller than they actually were. Pinched toes!
Love it!
WarEagle: what’s wrong w/Croc’s? they’re great for kicking around in the garden, as long as you don’t need to do any heavy shoveling.
Cubbiegal, I buy expensive Addidas for my jogging. Quality shoes help runners go the distance. BTW, my Dansko’s were over $100 when I bought them 8 years ago.
Spaceycakes: DID SOMEONE MENTION JEWELRY? I have friends who make it and I support the Economy by buying theirs for Christmas gifts.
Fairyfoose,
Crocs are an abomination! They are ugly and smelly and dangerous and provide no ankle support and more ugly. Plus they remind me of Alec Baldwin for some reason…
Boy,…
you REALLY think they’re ugly….
I said “ugly” and “more ugly.”
WarEagle82, They are handy to slip on and off if one has to run out into the yard to take out the trash or pick up the paper. They are not as comfortable as my EXPENSIVE Dansko clogs (look in any hospital at the footwear).They are more like Earth Shoes (I am dating myself again). I will not look down on you for looking down on my footwear. (hee, hee.)
remember high top keds they made you run higher and jump faster,? black canvas high tops they were awesome!!!
So, how about zombie footwear ?
I was more of a Red Ball Jets boy, personally…
We speak the same language.
I just returned $465 Christian Louboutin shoes. They ran small but Barneys didn’t bother to mention that online. Oh, well.
$300.00 and $465.00 for 2 shoes? Yikes! I can’t see it myself. On some level I am trying to get that Aloha Spirit here in the South Bay of SF area. Don’t go near Neimen Marcus shoe dept. That’s getting awfully close to Michelles’ $540 for 2 sneakers!
Were they Icelandic zombie nuns? I hear they really hate apples.
I wore work boots I bought on sale for $12.50 four years ago. Later, I had to drive to town, and I wore oxfords I bought in 1996.
I figure I can get away with now … no kids. I can’t imagine spending that kind of money on myself after the fact, so I’m indulging now.
30 pcs of silver, I don’t have kids either. Shoes have never been my thing. Imelda Marcos, I’m not. Clothes were my thing, not expensive, but lots of them. I indulge on fabric and more fabric (these days). This Spring it’s been the yard and Earth boxes for veggies. (Stupid GOPHER!) I will have to pull out my beaded flats, perhaps next Friday for Fabulous Footware Friday.
Has the memory of that other famous collector of fine footwear for First Ladies, Imelda Marcos, faded yet?
I’ve always liked nice things but there was a time when I couldn’t even think of owning any of it. Growing up in abject poverty and such. Not every that own is designer or premier designer. the trick is to own the stuff and not let it own you.
We’re growing tomatoes and peppers. We’ll transplant them to the yard later this month. My husband has turned part of my kitchen into his very own laboratory.
All the best with the veggies.
I don’t get what all the fuss is about (especially on a site where John McCain’s $520 Ferragamos got nary a (cloaked) criticism — in the midst of a campaign where he was constantly calling his opponent an “elitist”). I’ve paid $400 for boots (one super durable pair to deal with the winter weather in Alaska; another pair that was totally frivolous, red and high-heeled to wear out dancing). Big deal.
For the record, paying $50 for flats — at Banana Republic, to boot — that you can get for $5 at most chains isn’t anything to gloat about — at least not where an attempt to win a contest in frugality is concerned.
Fixed that for myself.
Went to Iceland this winter. Won’t be going back again soon. Just sharing.
Its her money; She is free to spend it how she pleases. But maybe, she could forgo the $540 tennis shoes and donate the money to La Raza. They could put it to good use. With that kind of money they could bring a family of 5 illegal aliens out of the shadows and into an apartment or use it to help buy another senator.
Did taxpayers foot the bill? (Pardon the pun)
…and I buy most of my shoes at Payless, and rarely spend more than $15 per pair.
Shoes? Who’s wearing shoes today.
Im wearing socks at the moment so guess thats a step up from the flip-flops on a normal work-day at home.
Nobody cares what you have to say troll. Bugger off.
Oh and if it escaped you Obama is president McCain isn’t. The resident idiot (BO) tells us we have to do without while they live large. Do you get it yet?
Rest assured you are NOT one of the chosen but one of the serfs. No 500 dollar shoes for you.
A warning on Crocs (and knock-offs):
They provide no support for your arch. I developed plantar fasciitis after wearing them regularly, and must now only wear shoes that can accommodate my new prescription orthotics.
My shoes? Asic gel cross-trainers, $30 plus shipping on Ebay. With orthotics.
Uh, MM called it “gentle fun”. And for perspective…
No, her shoes aren’t the problem…
Hmmmm $540, wouldn’t that pay for Obama’s half brother’s living expenses for like 40+ years?
Actually, “$500 dollar shoes for [me]” whenever I want them! You have the money, you buy what you want. So “bugger off” yourself, you pathetic, anglophile idiot. Cheeky monkey.
Oh, Aloha. With all due respect (and you are one of the very few regular commenters here I respect), I just think this is such a minor point to dwell on. If this and the flyover of my city is what you guys are steaming over these days (and you guys spend more time talking about that than ANYONE actually living in NYC does), we (the opposition, I mean) are in good shape.
Anyway, nice to see you’re still around. I drop in so rarely, it seems like none of the old timers are still here.
NYK, our host wasn’t boasting about frugality when she mentioned her shoes cost $50. She said she considered that a splurge at the time, but now it seems pretty frugal compared to $540. You might try reading what she actually writes before you go spouting off.
If MO wants to spend over $500 for a pair of sneakers, yeah it’s her money and her right. But it was pretty insensitive and tone-deaf to wear those shoes while volunteering at a food bank. She could have gone with something more non-descript that wouldn’t have distracted from the good cause she was supporting. Besides, if you’re going to pay that kind of money for shoes, for heaven’s sake pick some that aren’t so butt-ugly. And while you’re at it, invest in some better tailored pants and sweaters that don’t look like they’re busting at the seams.
Chappy! We found patient zero!
Great references…John McCain…Imelda Marcos…Let’s not forgot our most righteous Sarah Palin who was raked across the coals when the RNC provided her and her family w/apparel fr Neimans…
She was. There was a tacit comparison. Otherwise, why mention the cost of your shoes? Come on. At least be honest.
I always pegged you for the type that would conspire with liberals…
And it was pretty beyond insensitive to not only play golf, but to claim that YOU WOULD NOT PLAY GOLF out of respect to the bereaved families of deceased Iraq war veterans, and then go and do it anyway. I’m just saying, stop the selective outrage. It’s silly.
My biggest shoe splurge was my Mammoth Croces – $39.99. I never spend more than $20 other than that. And I wear my shoes for years and years.
I love my Crocs!
Yeah, her shoes are no big deal, just ugly. I think MM just meant to have a little fun on a Friday with it. Her tweets were just having a giggle and she extended it here. BTW, I think the old-timers are lurking…but Chap seems to have moved to a place without electricity and has no Internet access at night. At least that’s what he tells his wife when he heads off to the bar with the hot babe bartender.
OK, I can’t really talk smack on this one…
I’m currently wearing a pair of $165 Ariat boots (they’re the “cheap” living quarters/travel boots).
I’ve got the $150 Doc Marten steel toes for outside (expensive, but durable & comfortable).
But the capper are my Don Luchese Ostrich boots (a mere pittance at $465).
C’mon, I live in Texas, you’ve gotta keep up with the Joneses’…
I do not begrudge MO her expensive shoes. If she earned the money to pay for them, and this is how she wants to spend the money that SHE earned, then fine. It is the hypocrisy that makes it so annoying. Just like John Edward’s $400 haircuts. I had no problem with that…just his blatant double standard! By the way, I also wear New Balance sneakers – $49.99, and CROCS around the house. My dressy shoes are usually purchased at the shoe warehouse in Burnsville and run anywhere from 29.99-49.99. I have only the basic colors to go with everything. I did splurge twice on fancy colored shoes…my two daughter’s weddings, where I had to match with my outfit for the very special occasions. I guess I must have also splurged for my own wedding shoes, but since that was 40 years ago, they probably cost Five Bucks.
Nice. Equivocations are such a novelty around here. BTW, at least it wasn’t a campaign promise he had made with no long-term intentions of keeping, like a 95% tax break for all Americans (Dems say it’s not going to happen, according to Politico) or all US troops out of Iraq in 16 months (the NYT says 45-50,000 will remain there indefinitely).
By any chance, do you work for the NYT? The last person to utter such an inane generality was a Times’ female columnist who couldn’t understand how Nixon won – when no one she knew voted for him.
McCain’s age and the fact that he experienced actual torture on this country’s behalf, more than earned him the right to wear whatever he wants. And be honest, Obama’s youthful arrogance makes him an elitist, not his choices in food and fashion.