Jon Gosselin spent his Memorial Day weekend with two gal pals - neither being his wife Kate.  The reality TV star of Jon & Kate Plus 8 dropped some cold hard cash on expensive duds for himself.  No word on what he bought his kids.

From TMZ:

Jon Gosselin was apparently trying to put out a fire in his pants yesterday -- a fire that was clearly burning a hole in his pocket, because he was spending like a mutha.

Now we find out he dropped more than $2,000 Friday at the Barneys CO-OP in the Riverside Square Mall in New Jersey. It's the same mall where one of the two women he was with dropped $595 at Tumi -- on a purse.

And spies at the mall tell us Jon and the two girls dropped in on Louis Vuitton, Cole Haan and Godiva. As one dude put it, Jon was decked out in cheesy Ed Hardy duds.

And now we're told the two women who accompanied Jon were the two chicks with whom he spent Memorial Day. We got this pic of the trio at Front Street Bar and Grill in Newburgh, NY.

From the looks of it, Jon was spending on Jon but not Kate Plus 8.

What about the two women he was with?  Just friends?  Something more?  Does Kate care that he was out with them and not spending time with her or their children?

From ET:

New details are emerging in the Memorial Day outing in which Jon Gosselin was spotted drinking with female companions.

According to Us magazine, the "Jon & Kate Plus 8" dad's visit to the Front Street Bar & Grill was nothing but "chill."

Jon simply came in "to have a beer and chill," bar manager Robb Tanczos tells the mag. He only stayed for about half an hour before he noticed people were taking photographs. "People weren't causing a scene or ooohing and ahhhing, but Jon could tell people were starting to notice him and he got uncomfortable," Tanczos says. At that point, Jon finished his beer and left with his two female companions.

Us reports that a one onlooker named Jess called into 104.7 The Dial radio station after spotting Jon at the bar. "They were just ... drinking some Miller Lites," she reported. "No canoodling, nothing like that. He was wearing his ring, I will give him that."

After leaving the Front Street venue, Jon took his friends to Torches restaurant. "There was no flirting or affection," Torches manager Damien Brady adds. "They just looked like old friends and were laughing and having a good time."

Does Jon and Kate's marriage seem like it's over to you?   What about the kids, who would they be better off with?  Perhaps TLC will be going forward with their new Jon and Kate show?

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I am beginning to realize that the Christian marriage counseling and salvaging this marriage may not be an option, not from Jon Gosselin's behavior - he apparently has 'discovered' adultery, and likes it a lot more than marriage and parenting. The fame has gone to his head, that's for sure. Poor Kate (and poor children) --"Cheyenne Cin" - P.S. Kate is too vulnerable now, and as far as the bodyguard, they need to include the other Mrs., right ther with the two of them. She will need to live an exemplary life for awhile, to keep the program.

STILL, there is too much sexist criticism about Kate, too little about Jon.