You thought having their figures stretched all out of shape and suffering weird cravings was enough pain for pregnant women? Oh no. The world has many, many ways to make them suffer.
NEW VOTING INCENTIVE
It’s August, and that means a new voting incentive for Puck!
This one connects to the BEACH DAY WALLPAPER (which happens to be on sale HERE!) Do you want to see the red-hot consequences of Puck’s beach day party?
This voting incentive is no longer available by voting, but you can purchase the pic in the STORE! It’s only one buck for five incentive pics! YAY!
Yet another scam that can be averted through the miracle of bedsheet-toga. That or charity-shops and convenient friends, if the human female in question considers herself too good for bedsheet-toga. ¬_¬
Bedsheet togas are too classy for this neighborhood.
Fat clothes. Works wonders. It costs a helluva lot less to shop at Laine Bryant than at Motherhood Maternity. Bonus: when you can’t drop all that pesky baby weight as fast as you’d hoped or expected … you still have fat clothes.
I think that this is one of those perspectives that makes total logical sense, but few women can bring themselves to do this. Buying fat clothes, on some level, feels like you’re labelling yourself ‘fat’ and are probably never going to return to your former weight. Illogical, yes, but since when has shopping for clothes been logical?
Going to a plus size store makes sense technically. But never would work for a pregnant woman. Unless that woman wants to just look like a fat slob instead of pregnant.
Let me explain. Clothes made for big women are NOT the shape pregnant women should be wearing. Those clothes are just BIG all over instead of having room to accomodate a growing belly.
So it SOUNDS like a good idea to go to lane bryant instead of a maternity store but it’s not. Unless you don’t give a shit about how you look. Which a lot of women don’t. Sad.
But yeah, maternity clothes aren’t any more expensive as regular clothes. Unless you’re at a boutique or something.
It’s more the fact that you have to buy a whole new wardrobe. Then a few months later, you need to buy ANOTHER new wardrobe. Then you never wear those outfits again. And yeah, fat people clothes are not a good option. At all.
Uh just go somewhere like Target. Maternity clothes are the same price as regular clothes. Come on.
Target only JUST arrived in Canada. And there are options, but even the Walmart-type maternity wear stuff can be reasonably expensive compared to their other offerings.
Second-hand stores. ‘Nuff said.
Puck would never, ever shop in second-hand stores. She might be poor, but she’s got unrealistic standards!!!
Unfortunate. Charity shops are often inundated with pregnancy clothes and whatnot.
Y’know… the sort of things women only need for a limited time then don’t need any more..
If only Second-Hand Shops sold stuff I actually need – like Petrol and Molson.
Oh, and ill-fitting, worn, and stained jeans with holes torn in the crotch (don’t ask)
DISCLAIMER: Poster is about to make an offensive, and insensitive joke made in poor taste. So if you’re a chick of the knocked-up variety, or any female lacking a sense of humor (which is pretty much all of them) be advised; the following comment may cause an acute case of outrage followed immediately by the desire to make an angry post “calling me out,”. If you feel the need to “call me out,” please take a deep breath, hold it for a count of three, then slowly release the breath and remember it’s just a joke sweetheart ; )
All these dumb preggo chicks deserve what they get. I mean it’s their own fault for being stupid enough to be born a chick. If they were smart like me they woulda been born a dude. Now I’m gonna go prove how much better it is to be a dude and NOT a chick by peeing standing up, not menstruating, and NOT being pregnant.
Nevertheless, how is it that Phoebe knows anything at all about maternity clothes?
I feel strongly that she knows about all clothes, from parkas to ballgowns and back.
Nothing retail loves more than a captive market.
My best example, after working as a PSW for a decade:
Anything sold under the label of “medical equipment” is approximately double the price of double the price (at minimum) of a comparable item sold elsewhere.
One of my patients in a wheelchair had to keep buying reachers for getting dropped stuff off the floor, at about $50 a pop. They lasted about 6-9 months on average before breaking.
I found reachers in dollar stores for $2.50. They break a little easier, but at that price… who cares? I buy them for him three at a time.
The safety break on his shower chair is functionally the same as a bicycles hand-break. To have a “medical equipment tech” come visit his house to fix it costs $100 just for him to walk in the door.
I took it to a bicycle shop. 😉
Yeah, education is the same thing. If you want a license to print money and do no work, get into the lucrative field of education management software. The programs we use to generate report cards and the like are awful, and it’s because the contracts are purchased by people not using the software. There also aren’t many players in the game. So we get these nightmarishly complex and user-unfriendly programs, and I just know some dingbat is laughing all the way to the bank.