Party Pumps - The sorry story of a clearance addiction

I love sales. I love online shopping and coupon codes. I love 30 % off printable coupons and buy 1 get 2 free sales. It is honestly quite desperate – I get emails from The Body Shop, Aeropostale, Carter’s, Bath and Bodyworks, Guess, Coach, Hilfiger, OshKosh, Payless Shoes…. you name it, I’m on it!

The problem is I also buy everything I see on clearance. And I really mean everything. I will buy the too small shirt expecting I will be skinny enough to wear it. I will buy the size too large jeans expecting I will one day be a little more “full figured” to wear them. It’s just ten bucks, you can’t leave Levi’s jeans on the shelf if they cost 10 bucks!

I believe my best (or worst) reasoning behind a sale buy was this – I was shopping with my little sister quite a while ago, the time before the two monsters ,and we found a great shoe sale. Mind you, I’m a tall woman and tall women don’t have small feet. I’m sorry if I scared off some perverted male readers of my blog now, I truly am. In any case, I tried on these perfect pumps. Nice high heels, nice black and white coloring, cute peep toe… and a half of a size too small for me. They were tight and uncomfortable but looked amazingly good. I bought them. Yes, I hit the rock bottom of all clearance shoppers.

“I will be wearing these when I go partying!” I told my little sister, “I will be drunk enough to not feel the pain, really!”  She eyed me in frown for a long silent moment. I still bought them.

… I never wore the shoes. The pair was simply too tight and I sold them later on. Still, the memory of the shoes haunts me every time I go to a shoe store. I would like to think I learned something valuable about myself, shoes and sales.