What I Learned When I Went Shopping for #IronMan3Event

shopping girl image

shopping girl image

What I Learned When I Went Shopping for #IronMan3Event

First of all the above image isn’t me, if it was I would have gotten my shopping done a lot sooner.  Secondly I didn’t bring that many bags home; why you ask? I am not a ‘shopper’. Not a shopper you say? Well I am able to buy for others, easier than for myself. Get groceries? I don’t enjoy it but that is easy if I have a list. But to shop for myself? That is a whole other story.

So what did I learn when I went to shop for the #IronMan3Event I am attending tomorrow in California? See post here about my trip.

What I learned:

  1.  Many of the stores in our area; unless it is prom time and unless you are a size 14 or below (or so it seems) do not sell fancy enough dresses for a Red Carpet Premier OR they hide them. I am really thinking it is the latter of the 2.
  2. Our mall is short on ‘nice’ stores-or they are there and “too” nice for my wallet or my wallet isn’t nice enough for them.
  3. When going to try on a nicer dress ASK FOR HELP. I figured all day “oh I can do this” or “oh I am capable of looking”. Wrong… you have to ask for help; and when you tell 2 clerks (Allison & Danielle at our JC Penney’s) that you are attending a Red Carpet event put on by Disney. It is 7:30pm on a Saturday night, and you have looked everywhere you can think of to find something in YOUR size and that I am shopping impaired …that is when stuff happens.
  4. You can feel like a princess or maybe more of a queen when 2 young women say we will bring you dresses and you try them on. Then thanks to my 16 year old daughter who did the zipping, the looking at me-Yes, No, Maybe… that this is how you should have started your shopping trip.
  5. You forget you have a tad of ‘back fat’ and that your knees aren’t as small as they have seemed all winter inside of your jeans. You forget that some styles make your chest look like you had surgery, or that some dresses make you look like you are wearing a fancy potato sack.
  6. After trying on what seemed like 12-15 dresses, your hair is all full of static, your feet to your toes HURT, that now that you found THE DRESS… you have to figure out shoes.
  7. You realize after trying on heels that 1) you haven’t worn heels in over 13 years, when was the last time you wore heels? 2) its 8:50pm and you are sure the store closes in 10 minutes but find out luckily not until 9:30pm.
  8. You also realize that heels are really not your friend, that you need to trim your toe nails and that when is the last time you really looked at your feet?
  9. You keep saying to yourself-you can do this, and oh you need to get some spanx to hide the unforgivable areas that you mentioned earlier… I could easily have spanx from my neck to my ankles but that would be expensive and unheard of.
  10. Then the moment of truth, the shoe gal gives you a 20% off coupon, you find out that your dress was marked down to $24, your shoes are on sale for $30 and the spanx are $24 BUT then you get 20% off the top and waa-laa you spent less than $70 on the whole shooting match…
  11. And while your toes are throbbing, you are exhausted and riding home; its then you realize “oh shoot I have to run back out tomorrow and get capris, a bra, and a shirt or two…”
  12. So in all of the things I learned, the biggest thing I learned is… I am not a shopper at heart.

Are you a shopper? Shopping for myself is like having a root canal; painful and not really fun. I did however manage; and I am glad that I did and Thankful to those 2 girls at JCPenney for their and my daughters help. Without them? I would have nothing to wear in a few days. Then what?

my #IronMan3Event Dress image

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Here is the dress I ended up picking after the one I “thought” was going to be sent to me in time didn’t show up. But This was a great deal at $24 plus a 20% off coupon! I will be wearing black heels with this dress… could be interesting!

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