Spring Fashion Flings
Finding the perfect bargain is not easy. A trip looking for the right item you really want can bea exhausting: comparing prices, trying things on, finding the sales, finding what fits and flatters. Ugh!
Shouldn't shopping be fun? Don't you imaging a shopping trip as a spree - an exuberant dash from store to store, randomly picking up items you adore that somehow magically feel incredible and make you look drop-dead gorgeous.
Ok, get real. Shopping will never be quite like that, but you can make it more palatable with a spring shopping fling.
A spring fling is just that: a crazy fling where you do just what you want. You spend a day at the mall or your favorite stores. You try on what you like, see how much you love it. You don't try on some things, but just hold them up against you. You feel the textures of new fashions, admire the mannequins in the windows. You gush over new trends. You spend an entire luxurious day on your fling with fashion.
Mid-afternoon, sit down and have a cup of coffee. Reflect on what you've seen today. Are you dreaming of that divine dress? Longing for the silky skirt? Yearning for that billowy blouse? Think about what you loved more. And what you loved most.
And then the best part of your fling - the hope for the future: go back to what you loved best. Do you still? Does it look good?
Take a deep breath and check the price tag. Consider if you'd pay that much. Could you save up for a month and buy it? Do you have to save up for a year?
Go ahead, sleep on your perfect "bargain." Still want it in the morning? If you do, start saving, or buy it. Think of all the things you didn't get. And you can return it anyway.
And if you don't want it, or you can't get it, or you're not sure - let it go. That is the best thing about a fling: there are no strings attached. And years later, you can dream about your perfect bargain that cost nothing, but gave which you a sweet spring memory for years to come.