My very dear friend Claudia uses this expression. I love it. It usually justly describes some awesome sale we found while out on our somewhat regular second hand store ‘dates’. You know, we leave the kiddos at home, some random afternoon or morning, and we go off to enjoy our guilty pleasure – bargain shopping. Like I said, generally at the local second hand shops and church run stores. We have a blast. We either start early in the day and have a late breakfast out, or meet up for lunch and then off we go for our shopping fun. Along the way we share what’s been going on in our lives, laugh – a lot, and point out and hold up the treasures we see and find saying, “Look at this one.” or “What do you think of this?” or “That would look great on you, go try it on!”. At least once during out timeout, Claudia will utter the words, “That’s a smokin’ deal there, Lis!” .
So in honour of our missed adventures over the last two months (didn’t get out in April, and won’t in May), here’s my smokin’ deals for this month. I decided, on a whim, to go in this clothing store in our mall, which I have never set foot in, since it opened about 4/5 years ago. It just looks like one of those keep-going-the-prices-will-not-be-budget-friendly kind of stores. I was drawn in by a $5 rack of nice quality Ts. I didn’t find anything I liked, or for $5 either. I nearly left the store in disgust at my notion of ‘false advertising’ because the rack upon closer inspection stated $5 or more. Grumble. Grumble. However I was drawn like a magnet to the back of the store, by one of my most favourite words in full price stores – LIQUIDATION. It was the section for last season’s fashion line. I tend to buy mostly classical clothing pieces, with just a very few trendy bits to keep my wardrobe somewhat current. So this is what I look for on all liquidation racks. I definitely found some awesome deals on those racks today. I paid $47.85 for my purchases. However, I should have paid $318.92 for them. I saved $271.07, a whopping 85%. For this I got: 2 knee length black skirt, with leather-like accents for $1 each (reg. $49.99). 1 knee length navy/black plaid skirt for $6 (reg. $59.99). 1 ‘flute’ or ‘trumpet’ skirt, just below my knee length for $10 (reg. $69.99). 2 pair of canvas slip on shoes, they were on sale 2 pair for $24.99. (One is red/black/white plaid, the other plain black. They were reg. $24.99 per pair). Oh and of course all applicable taxes, can’t forget those taxes, but sure wish I could sometimes.
Needless to say, It was a very good sale day, indeedy.
