Sometimes you just have to give up your thrifty ways...
If you know me, you know IKEA is on the short list.
It joins my favorite thrift stores and backroad auctions and weekday Target trips and the rare trip to Anthropologie. The childcare center bumps them perhaps all the way to the top. If IKEA were to add standard Chick-fil-A's in all their stores and Target were to add childcare...well now THAT would be a battle worthy of the consumer age.
All that to say...I know IKEA. At least I thought I did. I pretty much know all of the merchandise backwards and forwards. I know what is a good deal and what is just cheap. I know what I will buy every single time I visit (Hello grey-brown pots and crazy straws!). When IKEA brings out something new, I can always spot it. (You know...as a side note, I can spot hawks and owls in trees on the highway better than anyone I know, so just believe me when I say the hawkeye works at IKEA). When IKEA brings out merchandise that is priced too high -- I know to wait until they slash the prices.
So now that you think I am completely full of myself and my IKEA shopping talents...let me let you in on my downfall...
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It joins my favorite thrift stores and backroad auctions and weekday Target trips and the rare trip to Anthropologie. The childcare center bumps them perhaps all the way to the top. If IKEA were to add standard Chick-fil-A's in all their stores and Target were to add childcare...well now THAT would be a battle worthy of the consumer age.
All that to say...I know IKEA. At least I thought I did. I pretty much know all of the merchandise backwards and forwards. I know what is a good deal and what is just cheap. I know what I will buy every single time I visit (Hello grey-brown pots and crazy straws!). When IKEA brings out something new, I can always spot it. (You know...as a side note, I can spot hawks and owls in trees on the highway better than anyone I know, so just believe me when I say the hawkeye works at IKEA). When IKEA brings out merchandise that is priced too high -- I know to wait until they slash the prices.
So now that you think I am completely full of myself and my IKEA shopping talents...let me let you in on my downfall...
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| IKEA perfume bottles, set of 3 in pink, brown and blue |
Yes, those would be my downfall. Simple little glass perfume jars. Let me explain....they were $15 for 3. For IKEA, that is crazy talk. They are fairly new, so like a good shopper, I waited. I waited a few months until I went back to IKEA and they were still there and they were still $15. (Of course in my head instead of $15 for 3 it was $15 for THREE...the deal was getting better...)
I knew that they were just pressed glass. The seaming wasn't even that great on the sides - they weren't the highest quality...but I still liked them. A lot. I liked them enough that I was thinking about them when we arrived at IKEA hoping they were marked down. So, I caved. I bought them. ...and let me tell you something...they make me happy every morning and every evening. A tiny luxury...plastic bottles thrown out the window and 3 lovely little glass perfume bottles taking their place.
Sometimes you've just got to give up your thrifty ways and take a plunge.
...and then don't go back to IKEA for 6 months to make up for it...
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| IKEA perfume bottles, set of 3 in pink, brown and blue |
IKEA paid not a penny for this post, but if they were to send me a $100 giftcard, I'd write them a 100 posts.
If they were to sponsor a fill-a-cart shopping spree, I might even tweet about them ;)
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