Comments on: Sucked In

By: Happy Buy Nothing Day « Kaleidoscopic

Happy Buy Nothing Day « Kaleidoscopic — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 04:25:30 +0000

[...] American Family gets sucked in to a sale: I got home at 3:30 a.m. I doubt I will ever need to experience that kind of shopping insanity ever again. [...]

By: mccxxiii

mccxxiii — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 13:31:04 +0000

Ooooh! Vicarious shopping excitement!! Please show us what you bought!

By: figlet

figlet — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 08:06:15 +0000

Sadly there was no 40% off sale at Spin Ceramics. Actually, it didn’t matter. Thanks for the reminder. It was so worth sitting in traffic for an hour on the way back. Tomorrow you must let us know what bounty you returned home with.

By: Andi

Andi — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 06:47:47 +0000

I think we all think “there’s no way” until we find out Our Store is the one holding the sales Then you are no longer a sucker, you are suddenly a savvy shopper. Just keep telling that to yourself as you use whatever you can grab to battle back the hordes to reach what you want: you are a savvy shopper.

(Actually, I think pre-shopping online that way is brilliant. That way you won’t spend as much time wavering between this, that and the other; you’ll just know straight off what you’re heading for. Quite clever, really)

By: alisha

alisha — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 06:02:42 +0000

We live five minutes from a PB outlet, and got suckered in on one of their 40% off sales last month. The 40% off was off the retail price, not the normal outlet prices (usually about 30% or more off retail). So, just go knowing that might be the case. If that’s what you’re expecting, happy hunting! That place is usually my version of a treasure hunt.

However, I was kinda cranky about The Big Sale because when we bought our house I was the queen of the PB outlet — I got a PB trunk for $39 instead of $500, a West Elm Overlapping Squares daybed for $119 instead of $399, WE king size low platform bed for $184 instead of $660, and so. much. more. for about 1/4 the cost of what we’d budgeted. So, compared to that, the big sale last month was infuriating, as the nightstands I’d gotten for $24 each were now priced at $130 each AFTER the 40% discount.

However, I will probably go check out the PB outlet tomorrow, since my husband has put some more Le Creuset cookware on his wishlist.