Wednesday, July 08, 2009

How much?!

The zip on my favourite skirt broke so I took it to the cleaners today to be repaired. (But I didn't tell Auntie Joan that when I visited her afterwards: she would have been shocked at my lack of needlewomanly skills.)
'That'll be £17.20,' the girl in the shop said.

It was only half an hour later, as I was returning to the car after doing some other shopping, that I realised that was more than I paid for the skirt originally.

5 comments:

Lia said...

I wish you had told us this before, I would of happily done it for you for the price of the postage.
What a total rip off, that price is, the hardest part about that is getting the old zip out, after that it is really simple to do. I think they must have plucked that price out of the ether or she saw you coming.
No wonder people throw so much away today.

much love Lia xx

Suburbia said...

Gosh! Perhaps I need to hone my mending skills and take in extra work! That is a lot of money.

Leslie: said...

Oh my gosh, that's over $35.00 Cdn - you could have bought a brand new skirt for less!

CherryPie said...

Well I am sure you will enjoy the skirt so it will be worth it :-)

Furtheron said...

I've done that... £15 to get my shoes repaired the other week. I think they were only £20 to buy as I normally buy from the factory outlet... it's a long story about skin reactions to certain chemicals so I buy cheap shoes and if they react bung them in a shoe bin for the Salvation Army.

If I then get a pair that are ok and comfortable I'll repair them several times. And I have a wardrobe with several unused pairs I've bought when seen cheap as well...


None of it makes much sense does it?