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Do You Like My Coat?

Me on the SubwayYesterday, I stopped at Macy’s and bought a pea coat. The price for this black, Calvin Klein pea coat was reduced to $150. Later research on amazon.com proved that I couldn’t get a comparable coat any cheaper. The sleeves where a little long, but I bought it anyway. I haven’t bought a coat in years, and the one I have on in this picture is a little ratty.

Those were all my rationalizations, but the real reason I bought a pea coat is because I fell in love with them again on our recent visit to NYC. You couldn’t turn around without seeing several people wearing them. It was almost like a uniform for the city.

I’m returning the coat this afternoon because:

$150 is a lot of money for me to spend on a coat;
I think my coat is perfectly fine;
I’m back in Nashville and not in NYC.

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  1. colabamumbai Avatar
    colabamumbai

    I also recently bought a Pea Coat. I returned to cold Canada after 5 years in Mexico. I couldn’t see myself living here for more than one winter and needed a warm coat. I went to Goodwill, they sell gently used items. It is a long length and like yours the arms are a little long, but they keep my hands warmer. I get compliments whereever I go, people ask where I got it. $20 at Goodwill.

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    1. Doug Hagler Avatar
      Doug Hagler

      I’ll keep an eye out for one there. Congratulations on your find!

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  2. colabamumbai Avatar
    colabamumbai

    Thanks now. I hope to go to Thailand soon as I prefer warmer weather and felt that I would only use the coat for a few months at best. Now I have to think of winter boots. I hate the thought of it. I am also practicing here on WordPress, as I hope to add it to a website in the coming weeks, through a host company, where I can include affiliate advertising. What are your thoughts on WordPress as you have more experience than I do? The host justhost offers members a couple of different blogging tools, Joomla, b2revolution and WordPress, I think this may be the best, but I am kinda illiterate when it comes to building a blog type website, that will rely on contributions from the public, to make it happen.

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    1. Doug Hagler Avatar
      Doug Hagler

      I haven’t looked into how advertising works on WordPress, but I have found that it does pretty much everything I want it to do.

      When I started, I wanted something simple. I like the fact that there’s a limit on the plugins I can use, as I know I would be messing with them far too much if I had access to them. If you’re into being about to tweak the way your blog looks, look at wordpress.org. It has the same interface but it’s open source and folks develop widgets and plugins every day.

      I use GoDaddy for my domain name. It’s super cheap 🙂 For images and such, I spread stuff out over a variety of place. WordPress.com offers a little, I have some space at comcast, and a flickr account, but the main place I put images is facebook. I made a private folder there for my blog pictures so only I can see them. However, I can grab the url and paste into wordpress and the images show up. I’m sure one day they’re going to catch on that people are using them as free space to host images, but until that day, it’s great!

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  3. colabamumbai Avatar
    colabamumbai

    Thanks again Doug, I had replied from my email and then realized that I had to come here to reply. You seem to know a bit about it. Two friends are cancer survivors and we though to make a website, blog, forum on surviving cancer. We bought the domain http://www.cancercomments.com.

    Now we have to decide how to develop the site. I am unemployed after being self employed for the past 15 years. We thought we may be able to get some affiliates on the site that pay per click. I dont know if a blog site is the best for that. I am more experienced at travel and may do a travel blog in the future.

    I am hoping to go to Thailand in the new year, first to take a Thai language course and then later a course to allow me to teach English there, to get me a work permit to live there. I cannot afford to live in Canada without employment and at 59 years, it is impossible to find work. I had spent time in Thailand 30 years ago and recently returned, I think that my heart is there. I spent 10 years in the Far East India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, in the good old days,
    as well as Thailand, Malaysia, Laos, Japan etc., hence the name Colabamumbai So it would be easier for me to blog and offer travel info, than to talk about cancer. A short story about justhost, after I registered I could not sign in with the info they gave me, after 10 emails from them telling me to try this and try that, and a few phone calls to them. I finally called to cancel after only one frustrating day, at this point they told me they had changed my password, believe it or not, anyway finally I was able to sign in with the new password they had assigned me.

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  4. Lee Avatar
    Lee

    You should have kept the coat. You deserve that coat. It’s ok to spend money on yourself. A little NYC goes a long way. But you know best…I’m just glad you and Frank had a good time in the city. I miss it. I feel lost sometimes not being there.

    Lee 🙂

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    1. Doug Hagler Avatar
      Doug Hagler

      Coat update:

      I followed colabamumbai’s advice and stopped by my local Goodwill. I didn’t find a pea coat, but I did find a great wool blazer and…a long wool overcoat made by Calvin klein for Caster Knott, almost exactly like the one I STILL wear that I found at the dig store on that trip to Hohenwald. I paid the same price for it as I did over 20 ears ago: $30. Sam loves it!

      last week, I bought a new coat at Kohl’s. It’s not a pea coat but similar. It has a single buttons and I think it looks better on me.

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  5. colabamumbai Avatar
    colabamumbai

    Good to hear Doug I hope that it makes you feel like you did 20 years ago. My savings purchase was out of necessity, not having a lot of money to spend, being unemployed and moving to Thailand in the near future. Otherwise I would have done the same as you and purchased a new coat. Many times these stores sell brand new items that have been donated by stores or manufacturers. You have more choice at more price levels. The herring bone one I wanted was gone when I returned the following day so I settled for my second choice. I picked up two new sweaters at the same time for seventeen dollars.

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