Holy Jaysus!! And to think the name of the shop is Flynn and O’Hara! It’s me own people, from Ireland herself, price gouging me.
I took the kids to get school uniforms today. The total bill? $652.00!!! They started by ringing Eilis’ bill up first. Okay, after I picked myself up off of the floor with that total, I figured that this is her first year in real uniforms, and really, she needed a little of everything, so her bill should be high. Then they totalled Brighid’s bill. Brighid already has much of her uniform. This year, she needs new blouses, because after a year of day in and day out wear, they get pit-stained and dingy looking. She needs a new pullover sweater. She didn’t even wear hers that much in the first two years, but this year, they are required to wear them every day, and the one that’s two years old is getting those little pilly things that sweaters get. Then, because they have an on-going problem with shoes, she is required to purchase the only approved shoe from Flynn and O’Hara as opposed to any black shoe. UGH. Brighid alone was close to $300.
Do these people realize that I still have to buy tights, socks, underwear, and clothes for these kids to wear when they are NOT at school? And this doesn’t include the $100 plus dollars I already spent on PE uniforms. I still have to take Eilis for both everyday school shoes, plus sneakers.
It’s an outrage that uniforms cost this much money. What’s worse, they could tell you to put your kids in navy pants and white blouse, and you can go to ANY store – Target, Walmart, Sears – and find the right color pants and blouse.
Flynn and O’Hara has a new outrage this year. If your items are not in stock (and I have NEVER in all the years Brighid has been in Catholic school gone and been able to pick up the uniforms that day – they always have to order them), they will charge you an additional $7 to deliver them to your home. No thank you. I’d rather buy $7 worth of gas to get there myself than give them another $7 on top of what they’ve already gotten.
The pot of gold? Right under the cash register at Flynn and O’Hara. Jaysus!!