Wow -- I thought I'd seen it all...

[caseydog]

Why didn't anyone publish the cost of Heinz-Gore's dress. I bet it only cost $100.

Can you imagine!

Well, if you are referring to Kerry's wife (that would be Heinz-Kerry), they did. And, she was bashed for her wealth -- as being "out of touch" with ordinary people. She got the same attention and criticism that Cindy McCain is getting now.

CD

[Beachbuggy]

Oooh my turn!

$9 flip flops,
$7 watch,
I buy all my clothes at discount centers and sales racks.
Shorts--$12.00 probably the most expensive pair I own.
Shirt--$9
Under garments $10
other than the watch (which I use just to keep time not as a fashion statement) I don't wear jewelry.

Grand total = $37

Lord forbid I ever run for an office, I might have to "bedazzle" my T-shirt

[Ivar the Red]

Yeah...but they look good. Isn't that what's really important in an elected official?

[toypusher]

shirt - free from PODS
Socks - about $1.50 (buy in bulk)
shoes - gift along time ago
underwear - about $4
Shorts - Wrangler - $14.00

Total: $19.50

Hope I am not overdressed!!

[caseydog]

It's kind of stupid to include the jewelry. They could have been gifts from her former husband. They might not be worth the "estimated" price. There are just too many variables to outright say, "She wore X amount of dollars." unless she said that she was.

But I can understand what Caseydog is talking about. The uber rich have a really warped sense of money. I look at our personal bills and think to myself, "How did I pay my rent, utilities, insurance, and gasoline when I was making $8/hr?" Those people probably think, "how did I make it with no servants?" I heard on the radio that Oprah was spotted in downtown Denver during the DNC, she dropped $8,000 on a Louis Vitton bag. Other than a car or my house, I don't think I own any one thing that cost $8,000. I'm not against them spending their money. They earned it so let them "stimulate the economy" for us.

I'll also be willing to bet that the Ferrari wasn't financed over 60 months either.

Cindy McCain has only been married once. John McCain is her first husband -- she married him when she was 25. He was 40, and married her a month after he divorced his first wife.

And, it's folks like you and me who fuel the economy. There aren't enough uber-rich to keep an economy running, and they spend a small part of their incomes, relative to those of us who borrow money from them to buy a car or house.

The sale of that $2.3 million dollar 1958 Ferrari did very little for the economy.

[Steve_Cox]

CD

Don't they look great, and not an ounce of compassion on either one of them.

[swissarmygirl]

Oooh my turn!

$9 flip flops,
$7 watch,
I buy all my clothes at discount centers and sales racks.
Shorts--$12.00 probably the most expensive pair I own.
Shirt--$9
Under garments $10
other than the watch (which I use just to keep time not as a fashion statement) I don't wear jewelry.

Grand total = $37

Lord forbid I ever run for an office, I might have to "bedazzle" my T-shirt

[caseydog]

I do own a few somewhat expensive wearables. I have a Tag-Heuer watch worth about $800 and a custom tailored jacket worth $1,200. I didn't buy either one -- they were both barter items I got through the magazine I worked for.

I've only worn the jacket once. I'm afraid I'll mess it up.

Otherwise, I shop at ROSS for out of season bargains on good brands of clothing. There and at the outlet mall in Allen. Watches are the only jewelry I own.

CD

[toypusher]

I have about 25 or 30 t-shirts and did not buy a single one!!

[Betsey]

Kind of like the shoes $600 for a unknown designer...maybe they were from Payless Shoes!

I $600 would be pushing it for the total of ALL the shoes in Payless...

Betsey

[elmo]

Don't they look great, and not an ounce of compassion on either one of them.

Unfortunitely I get the same feeling from both parties this time around.

[elmo]

I do own a few somewhat expensive wearables. I have a Tag-Heuer watch worth about $800 and a custom tailored jacket worth $1,200. I didn't buy either one -- they were both barter items I got through the magazine I worked for.

I've only worn the jacket once. I'm afraid I'll mess it up.

Otherwise, I shop at ROSS for out of season bargains on good brands of clothing. There and at the outlet mall in Allen. Watches are the only jewelry I own.

CD

I do have a better watch that I got as a wedding present from my wife...can't think of the name and since we brought it up I went to look for it and I can't find it....don't tell my wife. I never wear it because I don't want to wreck it. If I find it I will let you know what it is.

I do have a couple suits that I needed when I worked for a living, but they shrunk over the last couple years. They haven't been washed or nothing...just hanging there!!

[satch]

Hell, I don't think I ever paid more than $25 for a pair of jeans, and you don't even want to know how old my underware is Ware it 'till it rips, that's my motto.

[PanelDeland]

I'm wearing a $4.00 pair of undies.a $3.00 pair of terry cloth shorts and a $3.00 wife beater.I don't wear shoes in the house or jewelry of any kind.So I have on 10 bucks.I have a couple of watches but neither cost more than $10.00 and I haven't worn one yet this decade.I don't wear my wedding ring either.I work as an industrial mechanic and I'm keeping the wife and the fingers.
I went and had my glasses repaired earlier and wore my sandals.A gift from my wife.they are $40.00 but they're Teva's and 10 years old.It's the only summer shoes I wear unless working,so I guess another 10 years or so and I'll have gotten my(her) moneys worth.

I tell my wife I'm just frugal.She says that's just a PC term for cheap.

[asianflava]

Cindy McCain has only been married once. John McCain is her first husband -- she married him when she was 25. He was 40, and married her a month after he divorced his first wife.

My bad, I was thinking about the Heinz ketchup chick. In both cases, it was the wife who came in with money

I have a "TAG Hauer" that was given to me one Christmas. That Christmas, my cousin got everybody "expensive" watches as sort of a gag. My brother got a "Movada", my other brother got a "Rolexx" and my sister got a "Guci". He told us that he did his Christmas shopping from the guy with the watches on the blanket in NYC.

Loved my Nike watch but it broke at ITG so I got a Timex.