Okay, people, get out there and SHOP!!!!

Parent Cafe
81

<p>The dresser vs. chest of drawers thing came in handy the other day. We recently moved to a state farther down the East Coast and I needed a piece of furniture for my d’s room. I wasn’t having any luck finding what I wanted with dresser so I put in chest of drawers and found a nice one right away. I was going to try ‘chifferobe’ but I don’t think I’m that far South yet! </p>

<p>Couch vs. sofa is another regionality. Like pop and soda…or from the deeper South where they’ll ask if you want a ‘coke’ then start telling you the kinds they have…‘we’ve got Sprite, birchbeer, Pepsi…’</p>

82

<p>Southern California: soda, sofa…chest of drawers for a man’s highboy, dresser for a woman’s piece of furniture, purse</p>

<p>My mother (from Brooklyn originally):pop, couch or sofa, pocketbook, dresser (changed from pocketbook to purse four or five years after moving here.)</p>

<p>Dinner…never supper…evening meal eaten before 7…early bird</p>

83

<p>We used to call our family/TV room a “den”.</p>

84

<p>I don’t have to go out and shop because my mother, brother and sister are devotees of the " if I want it, I buy it" philosophy.
( and if *I *didn’t know it existed last week, that just means I am not shopping enough)</p>

<p>For example , although my brother is laid off, hasn’t had any offers and is selling stock to pay his mortgage; he just bought a new 17" laptop, joined a gym and is spending money left and right. </p>

<p>My mom is on a limited income, but isn’t in any hurry to rent her condo ( she just moved into a new retirement community, where she has apparently the biggest room, it’s SF is almost as big as our house), and is shopping for a new recliner ( her old one is five years old :eek:)
Her favorite so far is * only $1,500* but marked down from $2,500.
:rolleyes:</p>

<p>I was thinking about this last night, why we have different ways of viewing shopping, because it seems to be related to consumption in general.</p>

<p>My mother, sister and especially brother, not only like to shop, but they love to eat, even though they are all quite overweight.</p>

<p>I don’t know how it worked out, but I am the only one that seems to be living within my means ( well, pretty much), and the only one who has a waist.
( I also am the oldest, and was influenced mostly by my grandparents who were very frugal)</p>

<p>They were from rural Midwest. ( Missouri)
Hence, davenport, chestadrawers, or bureau, and supper. ( & butter & onion sandwiches)</p>

85

<p>Den, (generally the smaller of the family rooms with a desk for working at home) or the Man’s Den (the house next door had one, complete with a built in humidor)…Family rooms here are generally in newer homes, no telelvision rooms, dedicated media rooms…</p>

86

<p>We have a man cave- ( the garage)</p>

<p>I begged my husband to give me a corner- but I have to wait until he organizes his stuff.</p>

<p>( which reminds me, does BB & B sell tools?</p>

87

<p>owlice, are you there? I got out there and shopped. A lot. A lot a lot, as the 7 yo would say.</p>

88

<p>Harriet - you are just one post away from being a Senior Member! :D</p>

89

<p>Oooh la. Guess I better think of something profound to say - and say it outside of the cafe. :D</p>

90

<p>Harriet, thank you!! Thank you for doing your part! BBB stock went up today!</p>

<p>(And congrats on impending Senior Membership!)</p>

<p>Now, all of you shoppers, please go eat! Cheesecake Factory stock went down today, and we don’t want that happening, at all!</p>

<p>And those of you who haven’t started shopping yet, now’s your chance – everyone else is at Cheesecake Factory eating; BBB is empty! Gooooooo!!! :D</p>

91

<p>May I substitute P.F. Chang’s for Cheesecake Factory please?</p>

92

<p>Sure, I’ll go with you, cartera.</p>

93

<p>Sounds like a plan. There are very few chains I like, but I like that one.</p>

94

<p>My favorite Southern-ism: What do you call “slippers” where you live? In my house, they were “bedroom shoes.”</p>

95

<p>We called them slippers, but I have heard them called “house shoes”, which I thought was stupid.</p>

96

<p>OK…get out and shop. You do NOT want to have any extra assets in the bank when you complete the FAFSA and Profile…better to do some “retail therapy” NOW!!</p>

97

<p>Front room, cellar, spider, and ‘mum’ for living room, basement, cast iron frying pan, “mom”. If you were going to the basement, you were going ‘downcellar’.</p>

98

<p>scout59, my mother still calls them bedroom shoes!</p>

99

<p>I call them bedroom shoes and I wear a house coat (robe). I also grew up wearing under britches. I don’t think I heard the word panties until I went to college. My mom still calls capris - peddle pushers.</p>

100

<p>Cartera – She means ‘pedal pushers’ because, when she or her mother was a girl, that is what you wore to ride your bicycle.</p>