Ok, I know it's my year of living frivolously but now that I'm at the point that I actually have to skip a month of payment because I don't have enough money, well, that basically is a red flag there.
Right, I have not stopped buying stuff for about three weeks straight. The cost for each transaction might not be a huge total but the various small amounts from myriad retailers add up to a lot of money I have to fork out!
I figured since I've been buying up a storm online that I wouldn't have anything to buy when I went back to Homeland this past week. Nope, apparently I just love to shop and buy stuff so much. On my first day back alone I managed to get a chambray ruffled tunic shirtdress and a drop-waist sheer long-sleeve tunic top totaling about 88 bucks. Then I needed to get all my drugstore necessities which amounted to about 100 bucks worth of stuff. I also got myself a faux leather obi belt for $23.20 cos it had a 20% discount. Then I went to Accessorize and got a vintage-y brooch and metal love-knot chain belt which cost me $83.80. I also got some health supplements for 100 smackaroos. This is of course not inclusive of food and entertainment.
Then I come back to Workland and somehow I manage to find more stuff to get. Today I went to Macy's and got myself 2 pairs of Unionbay skinny cargo pants in black and sand. I had been eyeing the pants a while back but then it cost around 25 bucks and I wasn't up to paying that much at that time so I just left it in my cart, totally forgetting about it. Then today, I just happened to be on the site trying to find something that I've forgotten about now when I saw I already had something in my cart. I clicked on it and saw the skinny cargos in black which were now going for $10.99. Hence, I decided I needed two and got another one in sand (tan). Then I realized I couldn't pull my faux-US addy trick with them so I went to Amazon.com to see if I could get the pants off of there. I could and I did - Macy's had them available for purchase via Amazon so I happily paid USD27.93 (inclusive of shipping $5.95) for my 2 cargo pants.
After that, for reasons unknown to myself, I decided to go to Sears.com. Oh, wait, I remember why I went to Sears - I had gone to the Unionbay site and saw that Sears was one of stores that carried the label and I wanted to check out if my pants were available there. Sears, Kmart, Landsend - they're all connected. Once I made sure I wasn't, I browsed. And browsed and browsed and finally ended up with the spread below.
I am a sucker for free shipping deals. I actually started out with the Bongo Military Jacket. Then I decided I wanted the Levi's Totally Slimming jeans. When I saw that I could get free shipping for orders $49 bucks and above, I started scouring KMart for items to round up my total. That's how I ended up with the Hanes sports bra and the Attention smocked sleeveless top. At that point, my total was a lil over 51 bucks. I decided to search for a coupon code and found the KMart5Off50 but if I applied that then I would end up having to pay for shipping. And thus began the quest to find something that would amount to roughly $2.04 - the total I needed to be able to get my free shipping and 5 bucks off my 50 dollar overall total. And this is what I go :P
In the end (oh, LP and by extension Rob Bourdon, I miss you guys so much, get that album out ASAP!), I paid just $49.24 for all of my items. I love when I end up paying less! That's the excitement of shopping for me!
So, right now, I've got all of the above being shipped to my Portland addy as well as 2 seperate Newport News orders cos I helped each of my sisters get something from the site. The bulk of the two Newport News stuff actually is theirs but I managed to sneak in 2 of the tunics I got from my first Newport News order but in different shades (black and persimmon this time) from one order and a black leather boyfriend blazer from the second order. The second order is on deferred payment till December so I should not be burdened by that but the two tunics I have to pay this month but it's just about $30.00 for the whole thing inclusive of comGateway shipping. The leather blazer was $84.48 total to ship to Oregon.
Yea, I know it's a lot of stuff so I really don't have any more money to spend frivolously. I do have things to pay for like my student loan, insurance and whatnot. It's time to actually take a break for a month. YOU-WILL-STOP-SHOPPING-ZLENA!
Right, I have not stopped buying stuff for about three weeks straight. The cost for each transaction might not be a huge total but the various small amounts from myriad retailers add up to a lot of money I have to fork out!
I figured since I've been buying up a storm online that I wouldn't have anything to buy when I went back to Homeland this past week. Nope, apparently I just love to shop and buy stuff so much. On my first day back alone I managed to get a chambray ruffled tunic shirtdress and a drop-waist sheer long-sleeve tunic top totaling about 88 bucks. Then I needed to get all my drugstore necessities which amounted to about 100 bucks worth of stuff. I also got myself a faux leather obi belt for $23.20 cos it had a 20% discount. Then I went to Accessorize and got a vintage-y brooch and metal love-knot chain belt which cost me $83.80. I also got some health supplements for 100 smackaroos. This is of course not inclusive of food and entertainment.
Then I come back to Workland and somehow I manage to find more stuff to get. Today I went to Macy's and got myself 2 pairs of Unionbay skinny cargo pants in black and sand. I had been eyeing the pants a while back but then it cost around 25 bucks and I wasn't up to paying that much at that time so I just left it in my cart, totally forgetting about it. Then today, I just happened to be on the site trying to find something that I've forgotten about now when I saw I already had something in my cart. I clicked on it and saw the skinny cargos in black which were now going for $10.99. Hence, I decided I needed two and got another one in sand (tan). Then I realized I couldn't pull my faux-US addy trick with them so I went to Amazon.com to see if I could get the pants off of there. I could and I did - Macy's had them available for purchase via Amazon so I happily paid USD27.93 (inclusive of shipping $5.95) for my 2 cargo pants.
After that, for reasons unknown to myself, I decided to go to Sears.com. Oh, wait, I remember why I went to Sears - I had gone to the Unionbay site and saw that Sears was one of stores that carried the label and I wanted to check out if my pants were available there. Sears, Kmart, Landsend - they're all connected. Once I made sure I wasn't, I browsed. And browsed and browsed and finally ended up with the spread below.
I am a sucker for free shipping deals. I actually started out with the Bongo Military Jacket. Then I decided I wanted the Levi's Totally Slimming jeans. When I saw that I could get free shipping for orders $49 bucks and above, I started scouring KMart for items to round up my total. That's how I ended up with the Hanes sports bra and the Attention smocked sleeveless top. At that point, my total was a lil over 51 bucks. I decided to search for a coupon code and found the KMart5Off50 but if I applied that then I would end up having to pay for shipping. And thus began the quest to find something that would amount to roughly $2.04 - the total I needed to be able to get my free shipping and 5 bucks off my 50 dollar overall total. And this is what I go :P
In the end (oh, LP and by extension Rob Bourdon, I miss you guys so much, get that album out ASAP!), I paid just $49.24 for all of my items. I love when I end up paying less! That's the excitement of shopping for me!
So, right now, I've got all of the above being shipped to my Portland addy as well as 2 seperate Newport News orders cos I helped each of my sisters get something from the site. The bulk of the two Newport News stuff actually is theirs but I managed to sneak in 2 of the tunics I got from my first Newport News order but in different shades (black and persimmon this time) from one order and a black leather boyfriend blazer from the second order. The second order is on deferred payment till December so I should not be burdened by that but the two tunics I have to pay this month but it's just about $30.00 for the whole thing inclusive of comGateway shipping. The leather blazer was $84.48 total to ship to Oregon.
Yea, I know it's a lot of stuff so I really don't have any more money to spend frivolously. I do have things to pay for like my student loan, insurance and whatnot. It's time to actually take a break for a month. YOU-WILL-STOP-SHOPPING-ZLENA!
