With the exception of grocery shopping and outdoor gear and apparel, I am not much of a fan of shopping. But when all you can manage to do all day is cry while listening to The Jackson 5, shopping is the perfect cure.
Though it was just what the doctor ordered, I still don’t like shopping, so I only browsed two stores today… but I scored big. I bought an entire outfit (jeans, shirt, and sweater) for only $44 at Banana Republic. Oh yes, I am a master.
I guess I haven’t lost my touch. In college, I had to put together a two-page spread for a magazine on my amazing thrift store shopping skills. I threw together uber-awesome entire outfits (shoes and accessories included) for guys and girls for like ten bucks a pop. Oh yes, once a master, always a master. I would shock and awe you with some of the deals I’ve scored, everything from ski pants to Patagucci jackets. And I mean, hello, I am the girl who scored $1,100 worth of free LaSportiva shoes.
For my own personal shopping, the secret is in being little. I have little feet, and can buy the exact pair of shoes in kids as I can in women’s for half the price. Or I can score big on the women’s clearance rack since all that ever makes it on them are the shoes for the littlefoots and the bigfoots. Same goes for clothes. All that’s ever left are the size twos and the extra smalls (or the XXLs), which tend to fit me about half the time. Such was the case with the orange shirt I bought today. All they had were extra smalls, like five of them… all $3.99, regularly $25. Deal!
Anyway, I love my new outfit. About 95% of the time, I think jeans are horribly gross… but these ones didn’t look half bad on me, and I need some jeans for my new job. Since I’ll be romping around in the dirt all day, every day, my standard non-jeans just won’t really suffice. I’ve tried it. I need jeans. So I sucked it up and bought some… but I still hate jeans… and shopping. I’m just really good at it.
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