Why I splurged on... Bluenotes soft skinny jeggings

Happy Boxing Day everyone. Or at least those of you who celebrates it in Canada by letting your inner impulse shopper loose and to buy stuff you otherwise would never need!

Me? I don't celebrate Boxing Day anymore. Well I say anymore when honestly it's never been something I celebrated to begin with but the point is I don't believe in it. Mostly because Boxing Day is a farce. As I had mentioned in my last splurge confession post, life in retail taught me the best sales around Christmas time actually happen the week before Christmas or the first week of January.

And nowhere is that more clear than the trio of Bluenotes jeggings I bought the previous Thursday.

Well here's the first confession: when I bought that leather jacket last Thursday it must have unleashed the inner impulse shopper in me, or a strong case of clothing desire, because for whatever reason, I didn't stop there. I went to Bluenotes to see if there was anything else I liked. And there was,

Now the history of my pants search begins when I finally wore a hole into my favourite pair of black jeggings because I wore the damn thing so much in late spring. And since then I have been trying to find a replacement pair with zero luck. This is after getting a pair from Dynamite and a really expensive pair from Jean Machine. None of them worked despite my best attempts. They were all too high-waisted and too goddamn uncomfortable to wear.

The quest was getting very expensive by that point.

But when I walked into Bluenotes, I noticed that they had a pair of black jeggings that were low-waisted and sat beautifully on my petite frame when I tried them on. And they had other jeggings in the same style but in different colours.

So I bought three of them in grey, black and khaki. Because I'm nuts like that and my impulses were out of control at that point. But hey, I told myself, I could justify it because they marked it down in a special sale to $20 tax included for each pair of jeans from $29.99 before tax. Clearly a win-win here.

The story isn't over. After the fact, it turned out that the size I bought when stretched out was a touch too large for me, a fact I discovered after two wears of the grey pair, This prompting me to exchange two of the pants (the black and the khaki - thank God the blacks weren't the first one I tried out) for a smaller pair on the 23rd of December.

Bluenotes at that point had already posted their signage of for their Boxing Week sale. And the pants I had paid $20 each with tax only a few days before were now getting BOGO'd. That is to say, buy one, get one half off.

The $40 exactly on the pair I bought that Thursday would have been something like $50 with tax on the Tuesday before Christmas and Boxing week.

And that is why Boxing Day/Week is a farce and if you really want to save money on sales during this time of year, do it the week before Christmas or the first week of January.