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Showing posts with label MOMMMM. Show all posts

Monday, June 29, 2009

Work Shoes

Garment: Work Shoes
Discount: Buy 3 get 20% off, plus additional 15% off with Macy's charge, plus another 10% off
Section: Shoe
Acceptability Index: Yes, I will wear these. For work.



Since I moved home, I have been tagging along with my mom to the mall pretty consistently. Although we had had some luck with a twenty percent off coupon in the Lord and Taylor shoe department, I was a little on the fence about the pair I went with which we agreed were "a little trendy."

Macy's was having a sandal sale and I went along not planning to buy anything. My mom encouraged me to explore the flats, but they mostly looked TOO comfortable. I tried on a pair of alright t-straps, but she dismissed them, recommending a wedge. I said no way. I am not a wedge type of girl.

A few try-ons later, my mother pointed over at another pair of wedges, and said "this is really what I think you should be going for." As I prepared a wedge rebuttal case, I noticed that the shoes in question weren't completely horrible.

Sometimes moms know what they're talking about. I found them to be cute on, and surprisingly comfortable. With the sale and additional discounts, they were easily half the price of the LoTay pair. Returned those trendy suckers the next day.

Inaugural Post

Garment: Mohair Cap
Discount: N/A
Section: the internet/some wool store
Acceptability Index: LOL



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I think this hat would look cute on you. Put your order in for UK shopping!
love, mom

My mom sent me a link to HECTOR RUSSELL KILTMAKERS: SCOTLAND'S TARTAN SPECIALIST so that I could view this Mohair Bonnet. The copy advertises humbly "a practical hat made in our own Scottish mill".

This blog is going to be devoted to stories about shopping with one's Mom. Field notes, hissed arguments, kilt-related coercion, Mom preferences and profiles, rabid discount hunting and department store exile, baffling suggestions, "just try it on for size" episodes, your mom commiserating with the sales staff over your failure to cooperate, waistband tugging, sweet finds-- we're going to run the gamut here. Run it into the ground.