"Expect the best, prepare for the worst, and prepare to be surprised." Dennis Waitley Have a great day brothers. My spun on this is to prepare for the worst, hope for the best, and and have contingency plans.

Wife and I were on our usual thrift shop circuit a couple of days ago, with low expectations, as I hadn’t found much lately. As usual, I went straight to the men’s long sleeve shirts. My habit is to go fast, looking at labels and fabric. The very first shirt I looked at said “Prada”. What!? I’m just learning clothing brands, but even I knew that was worth investigating. After research on my phone, I was convinced it wasn’t a fake and it was my size. Grab it! Next was a (several, actually) Ermenegildo Zegna. More serious Googling! Wow! Still my size. Several with French cuffs. Virtually all in really good shape. A couple were a little large….discipline, Mitch, discipline! Other expensive shirts kept appearing. $14.00 each, and with a senior discount, we got 30% off! I walked out with 12 dress shirts and a tan Brooks Brothers sport coat. We decided to go back and get the rest yesterday, also at a further discount. I have ended up with around twenty extremely nice dress shirts, almost all like new for about the retail cost of one shirt. Now the dose of reality…the Prada shirt has four wrong buttons. I was hoping to eBay it to pay for the rest, but I’ll work something out. Also, a few of the others are “Comfort Fit” which means they are going to have to be tailored. I’ll have my seamstress do that, as my sewing skills are not to that level yet. That was a conscious choice I made, so I’m ok with it. I have done some background investigation and I think I know who/why all of these shirts ended up at a thrift store. But for now, I’m enjoying styles and fabrics in a broad selection of dress shirts far beyond my imagination! Now I need to thrift some nice dress pants!