Several years ago, I bought a pair of pants. They were awesome pants and I really really really needed them for work… righhhht. They were expensive. Well, expensive to me. I think they were around $90. A few months later, a friend and I were shopping and the exact same pair of pants had been marked down to $19.99!  Needless to say she bought them and I learned a very valuable lesson that now shapes my shopping style.

I rarely pay full price for anything. If I am patient, it will usually go on sale. Plus it gives me time to determine whether it was an impulse purchase or if I really like it. After about 6 months of the above mentioned pants I didn’t even like them anymore and never wore them again.

Three years ago. I really wanted a white watch. Really really wanted it. It was before they were in style so they were hard to find and expensive. After extensive searching I found one that I LOVED. The catch was it’s price tag read $150. I came up with every reason I could think of to go ahead and buy that watch. But in the end, my pants philosophy won and I decided not to buy the trendy item.

6 months ago I was shopping at Nordstrom Rack and a wide array of watches were sitting on a table. I walked over just to have a look and sure enough THE watch was sitting on the table. There were about 5 of them in fact. At 65% off! You would think that I would have bought it and never looked back, but instead I questioned, reasoned and said no once again to the watch. A few days later I decided to go and get it. Only when I went to the table full of watches, this one was missing. They were gone.

Since that time, every time I am in that store I stop by the table to see if there happens to be a white watch sitting there. About 2 weeks ago, as I was making my routine follow up visit, it was as if I was in a dark room and in the distance a small, single light illuminated the pink box in the center of the table. As quickly as I saw the  box, I made my way to the table, trying not to look like a wild woman. As went around to the front of the table, trying to look at the contents inside, there IT sat. THE watch. I stopped and smiled to myself, then snatched it up as quick as my hands could grasp it, walked straight over to the register, and purchased my white watch.

Just remember when shopping…Everything goes on sale sometime.

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