sale report: Irving Baby $2 sale

Although Hindley St has a reputation for being the sleazy street, it actually contains some pretty good stores. One of those stores is a personal favourite of mine Irving Baby. And yesterday, they had a sale at its Hindley St store*. A sale where everything in the store (except for one rack of new stuff) was $2. Not starting at $2. Not some stuff $2 and the rest half price. EVERYTHING was $2.

When I got there (about 15 - 20 minutes early) there was a line from the door, winding its way back around the side street.



My spot in line sucked, but it sucked less than the 20 - 30 people behind me who came later. Everyone there was excited, some had been standing in line for hours**, and everyone was dressed fabulously. Not like, ball gown fabulous, but street-style fabulous (my favourite).

Inside, it was a complete madhouse. There were probably about 200 people in the store, and there was literally no room to move. You had to gently push (or not so gently push) people out of your way to get to the racks, to move forward, to do anything. I scrambled to get to a tartan jacket, but it was gone in the minutes it took me to cross the room. Luckily, one of my friends, who had a better place in line, got it for me! I would have taken photos, but I don't think I would have been able to stand still long enough to get a photo. People were crawling on the floor, because it was an easy way to move along the racks and see if anyone dropped any interesting stuff. Nobody got injured though, and there were no fights (that I saw) over clothes.

I managed to grab:

1. An awesome bikini

2. An amazing asymentrical skirt.

3. Shoooooooeeeeeessss

4. A tartan jacket (the one grabbed by my friend Hannah)

Plus, a fleecy vest, a picture of a cat, two belts, and two skirts that I'm going to shorten (like, a lot).

Hannah and I got out and had a hot chocolate, and then I went back to check it out. The store had pretty much been trashed, and there were still people there looking and people arriving.

Mink Pink top (second hand)
Bebe dress (Gilles Street Market)
Blue suede belt (Nadia's House of Serendipity)
Aldo red shoes (eBay)

Green tassel scarf (Nadia's House of Serendipity)
Electric blue jacket (eBay)

Hopeful bag (Print Liberation)

*they have a store on Twin St (a small side street off Rundle Mall), which is equally fabulous, and always has an amazing sale rack.
**which is what I plan to do next year. I'm getting there like two hours early. If you do plan on going next year, I recommend this.

zen and the art of shopping

Despite the pace I shop at, how crowded the place I'm shopping is, or the weather conditions*, shopping is, for me, a very relaxing experience. I sleep better the night after a good shop.

I feel like shopping is quite a zen thing to do. I mean, think about it. In shopping you must know exactly what you want, but you must n ever close your mind to new things. You must be ever vigilant, and you must have the speed and stealth necessary to read the perfect last-in-the-store-on-sale dress before anyone else gets to it or sees where you're headed. But you must also be calm in the face of someone else reaching the dress first.

And that's how I was able to find this wonderful bargain today. Aaaaaaages ago (like months ago) I saw these tights online, and fell deeply in love.


But since $130 is a ridiculous amount to spend on leggings (unless, I don't know, they're actually made of gold), so it seemed that our love was never to be. While browsing through Cotton On a couple of weeks ago, I saw these leggings, which are similar enough for me to love them too.


But Cotton On usually reduces their stuff fairly quickly (especially stuff like leggings), so I waited. Each time I went to do the food shopping, I check in Cotton On to see whether they had gone down. And low and behold, this week they were down to $10!**

Be ever vigilant, dear readers, for it is its own reward.


*I once got heat stoke at the Gilles St Markets. Plus, I used to shop at Supre when they had the $3 tables (it's where I learned speed and stealth).
**I know it says $24.95 on the site, but they were marked down, so maybe they just don't do sales online? IDK.