For the love of...cardigans

[Please disregard all bad pictures, intense sunshine in the lower left corner and wrinkles.]

I have a minor, teensy-tiny, itsy-bitsy love of cardigans. I have a few (about 16), which I'm going to show you in chronological order from when they came into my life. ( :

Now, you may note that everything I purchase is cheap or on sale. Yes, that's who I am.

Oldest:

This is the first cardigan I think I ever purchased. I bought it with Christmas money at the Old Navy in Fort Wayne back before ON was everywhere. Perhaps as far back as high school...which was 10 years ago.

I love it and never want it to go. It's timeless.

Another ON cardi, I purchased this one on a shopping excursion with Rach McF. It's brown, I rarely wear it and it's very wrinkly, but you didn't notice that because I asked you not to, right? 

The Nave. [That means Old Navy, but I'm trying to be clever.] I paid $0.97 for this baby.

I can't remember exactly when I got this, but it's basic, it's black and it's from New York & Company. It's also this kind of weird, heavy, stretchy material known as NOTHING NATURAL. 

ON, this one is next up for replacement.

As many of you who see me on a regular basis know, I wear a lot--A LOT--of grey shirts. This cardi matches them. It's also the only one I paid full price for, but that's because the full price was about $8 at Sam's Club winter 2009.

This might be my favorite cardigan. I don't know why, but I feel happy when I put it on. It's from Kohl's and I got it during a shopping extravaganza with my friends Theresa and Kevin. I think I paid $4.

Both of these beaut-igans [beauty+cardigan] are from Ann Taylor Loft. Take an additional 30% off sale last spring!

You may remember this cardigan from before.

When I went to Chicago in September I purchased this at New York & Company. This was the shopping trip where I vowed-aloud-to NEVER NEVER NEVER wear jeggings. I have kept that vow so far.

Old Navy, take an additional 50% off clearance. There's a belt but I'm lazy.

Old Navy, some fall/winter holiday item of the day for $10.

A Land's End purchase...take an additional 40% off overstocks! I love the weight and length but I haven't quite figured out what to wear under it...for the $8 I spent, I'll find something!

Tar-jay, clearance. It's really basically a fancied up sweatshirt. I like to pretend that it's waaay classier than an actual sweatshirt. I don't know if it's working since it is perpetually covered in cat hair. Cat hair is my life, unfortunately. ( :

Newest:

This is replacing my old favorite winter cardigan. When I went home for Christmas my mom did some laundry and shrunk it. Sad day. New cardigan from Lands' End? Happy day!

Cute. I can't wait for a real winter when I can wear this! Yay!

OK, that's my for the love of cardigans!
Do you have a favorite cardigan? A favorite place to get your cardigans?