So, ok, after my personal, and very literal, Great Depression, last month, it looks as if I am back in the swing of things re: SPENDING MY HARD EARNED SALARY!
I had four successive 'online shopping expeditions' towards the end of last month and it appears to have rolled over into August as well.
To be fair, I had been rather good prior to all the shopping I undertook in the last month of July but like Stella, I have now gotten my groove back and am ready to....I have no idea what I'm ready to do but it seems like I'm going to make shopping an art form (read: obsession).
Anywho, what, where, why and how, I began Augusts' expedition with a lil something, something I have wanted since the start of this year - a pair of shoes :D
Ok, looking back at my shopping bags, I've gotten 3 pairs of shoes in the past 3 weeks (hehehe, like a pair a week) and though it may appear as if I don't need any more shoes, which is possibly 3/4 true, I desperately WANTED these shoes.
Are these shoes not the most cutest nude pumps EVAH?? I have been obsessed with these shoes since I first saw 'em on the Newport News site in January but at the RRP of $64 for a faux patent leather shoes, I managed to rein in my impulse shopping trigger and hold off even though I had a 30% off coupon code.
Periodically, I would get more coupon codes from my Newport News e-letters and for quite some time the price was down to $56 but still I resisted. And finally, when the price went down to $49, I felt that it was reasonable enough to part with my money - at 30% off that is :D
But somehow, Newport News was not dishing out any discount offers when i was ready to take the plunge. I did however receive a 30% site-wide discount from its sister site, Spiegel. Now, for whatever reasons, I have not been able to surf the Spiegel.com site since earlier this year as the site's server has been set up to block foreign ISP's if I'm not mistaken - which sucks balls! Pardon a moi :P I, however, found a workaround - no site's gonna tell me I can't view it! I went through a proxy site. I wasn't really expecting Spiegel to have the shoes but I have been lucky before in that the sites incestuously share their inventory, lol.
And I was super lucky this time cos the pumps were on Spiegel AND going for an additional 10 bucks off at $39! Hence, why I din say I was just plain lucky - I was SUPER LUCKY! The tricky thing with proxies is that sometimes you can't make purchases if the server is not within the country the site you are shopping at resides but good for me I found a free proxy server based out of Texas which allowed me to buy my coveted pumps.
Based on my previous shoe purchase from Newport News, I decided to go a half size down and got myself a size 8. I hope that these pumps stay true to the weird Newport News sizing cos if not, I'll be squeezing my 8 1/2 into shoes half a size too small, hehehe.
Tres excited to get my hands on these shoes, been waiting for 8 months to get 'em. It's been shipped and will arrive in Portland sometime next week. Hopefully, I'll be able to get 'em when I go back for holidays at the end of the month. Fingers crossed!
DISCLAIMER: Image screen capped from Spiegel.com
I had four successive 'online shopping expeditions' towards the end of last month and it appears to have rolled over into August as well.
To be fair, I had been rather good prior to all the shopping I undertook in the last month of July but like Stella, I have now gotten my groove back and am ready to....I have no idea what I'm ready to do but it seems like I'm going to make shopping an art form (read: obsession).
Anywho, what, where, why and how, I began Augusts' expedition with a lil something, something I have wanted since the start of this year - a pair of shoes :D
Ok, looking back at my shopping bags, I've gotten 3 pairs of shoes in the past 3 weeks (hehehe, like a pair a week) and though it may appear as if I don't need any more shoes, which is possibly 3/4 true, I desperately WANTED these shoes.
Are these shoes not the most cutest nude pumps EVAH?? I have been obsessed with these shoes since I first saw 'em on the Newport News site in January but at the RRP of $64 for a faux patent leather shoes, I managed to rein in my impulse shopping trigger and hold off even though I had a 30% off coupon code.
Periodically, I would get more coupon codes from my Newport News e-letters and for quite some time the price was down to $56 but still I resisted. And finally, when the price went down to $49, I felt that it was reasonable enough to part with my money - at 30% off that is :D
But somehow, Newport News was not dishing out any discount offers when i was ready to take the plunge. I did however receive a 30% site-wide discount from its sister site, Spiegel. Now, for whatever reasons, I have not been able to surf the Spiegel.com site since earlier this year as the site's server has been set up to block foreign ISP's if I'm not mistaken - which sucks balls! Pardon a moi :P I, however, found a workaround - no site's gonna tell me I can't view it! I went through a proxy site. I wasn't really expecting Spiegel to have the shoes but I have been lucky before in that the sites incestuously share their inventory, lol.
And I was super lucky this time cos the pumps were on Spiegel AND going for an additional 10 bucks off at $39! Hence, why I din say I was just plain lucky - I was SUPER LUCKY! The tricky thing with proxies is that sometimes you can't make purchases if the server is not within the country the site you are shopping at resides but good for me I found a free proxy server based out of Texas which allowed me to buy my coveted pumps.
Based on my previous shoe purchase from Newport News, I decided to go a half size down and got myself a size 8. I hope that these pumps stay true to the weird Newport News sizing cos if not, I'll be squeezing my 8 1/2 into shoes half a size too small, hehehe.
Tres excited to get my hands on these shoes, been waiting for 8 months to get 'em. It's been shipped and will arrive in Portland sometime next week. Hopefully, I'll be able to get 'em when I go back for holidays at the end of the month. Fingers crossed!
DISCLAIMER: Image screen capped from Spiegel.com
