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Posted: **Fri Dec 29, 2006 6:12 am**

......you go to the shops after Christmas, and everything you paid a fortune for before Christmas is now half the price !!

Posted: **Fri Dec 29, 2006 6:15 am**

But you knew that before Christmas, right? I mean, it's been the same every year for a while now

Posted: **Fri Dec 29, 2006 6:24 am**

Bez;499578 wrote: ......you go to the shops after Christmas, and everything you paid a fortune for before Christmas is now half the price !!

One of the reasons I dont go! I wait to go shopping when everything is back up to full price, then I feel better at what a bargain I got right before christmas! :yh_bigsmi

Posted: **Fri Dec 29, 2006 6:24 am**

Bez;499578 wrote: ......you go to the shops after Christmas, and everything you paid a fortune for before Christmas is now half the price !!

Thats right!! Thats why many people shop now for next Christmas. I dont, but I do shop very conservatively for Christmas, because of this very reason.

Merchandise is actually worth so much less than its ticketed value.

Posted: **Fri Dec 29, 2006 6:48 am**

That is so frustrating!

I just bought some tops online at Eddie Bauer on 12/27/06 and they weren't even marked down

I purposely waited until after Christmas to buy them (they were for myself, after all

), and they were still $34.50 each. I just said, "What the #$%%^&&*@!!" and order three of them anyway.

I deserve them, right? :p

Posted: **Fri Dec 29, 2006 6:52 am**

Santanico;499580 wrote: But you knew that before Christmas, right? I mean, it's been the same every year for a while now

Yep...but we still do it don't we.... I'm seriously thinking of doing something for charity next year......supporting UNICEF or something similar....

Posted: **Fri Dec 29, 2006 6:54 am**

Bez;499602 wrote: Yep...but we still do it don't we.... I'm seriously thinking of doing something for charity next year......supporting UNICEF or something similar....

Hiya Bez

I will gladly volunteer to be your charity of choice :p :-4

Posted: **Fri Dec 29, 2006 6:54 am**

Raven;499585 wrote: One of the reasons I dont go! I wait to go shopping when everything is back up to full price, then I feel better at what a bargain I got right before christmas! :yh_bigsmi

I've waited for the crowds to die down.....3 days....and everythings gone...

all I've bought are a few DVDs for £5 each to see me over the stormy (forecast) weekend.

Posted: **Fri Dec 29, 2006 6:58 am**

cherandbuster;499604 wrote: Hiya Bez

I will gladly volunteer to be your charity of choice :p :-4

Hmmm.... I was thinking of a goat for Oxfam etc.....but if you've got a lawn that needs keeping in order Cher...I'll divert your way.

Posted: **Fri Dec 29, 2006 6:59 am**

Bez;499605 wrote: I've waited for the crowds to die down.....3 days....and everythings gone...

all I've bought are a few DVDs for £5 each to see me over the stormy (forecast) weekend.
Yeah we are getting ready to go to blockbusters! HMV has some really good deals as well!

Posted: **Fri Dec 29, 2006 7:13 am**

My problem is that M and S is my "corner shop." Ten minutes walk down the hill and I'm there. It makes their sale very tempting

Posted: **Fri Dec 29, 2006 7:15 am**

It's the same over here. The sales started on the 27th, some of them at 05.00 am. That's too early for even a die hard shopper like me.

Posted: **Fri Dec 29, 2006 7:24 am**

theia;499624 wrote: My problem is that M and S is my "corner shop." Ten minutes walk down the hill and I'm there. It makes their sale very tempting

My local M&S which is quite big was cleared out on the 1st day......I felt like 'Old Mother Hubbard' when i went there on Thursday...

Posted: **Fri Dec 29, 2006 7:25 am**

jennyswan;499626 wrote: It's the same over here. The sales started on the 27th, some of them at 05.00 am. That's too early for even a die hard shopper like me.

I think NEXT opened at 6am Jenny....there was nothing worth having today when I went into town.

Posted: **Fri Dec 29, 2006 7:28 am**

Bez;499637 wrote: I think NEXT opened at 6am Jenny....there was nothing worth having today when I went into town.

They opened Wed here at 05.00 and we went to the shopping centre later on in the afternoon for some fast food and the place was still packed. :-5

I like to shop when there isn't so many people around otherwise I loose patience.

Posted: **Fri Dec 29, 2006 7:46 am**

Bez;499636 wrote: My local M&S which is quite big was cleared out on the 1st day......I felt like 'Old Mother Hubbard' when i went there on Thursday...

The same here...but, I noticed first thing this morning when I returned some stuff, that they were restocking the per una sale skirts...shame really because I was intending to have my refund returned to my account. But I spent it on a skirt :rolleyes:

Posted: **Fri Dec 29, 2006 7:57 am**

jennyswan;499640 wrote: They opened Wed here at 05.00 and we went to the shopping centre later on in the afternoon for some fast food and the place was still packed. :-5

I like to shop when there isn't so many people around otherwise I loose patience.

Me too....I guess you have to have stamina, patience, and bony elbows to get the bargains

Posted: **Fri Dec 29, 2006 9:01 am**

Bez;499659 wrote: Me too....I guess you have to have stamina, patience, and bony elbows to get the bargains

Yip that's true, guess my elbows are too well padded

Posted: **Fri Dec 29, 2006 11:54 am**

theia;499624 wrote: My problem is that M and S is my "corner shop." Ten minutes walk down the hill and I'm there. It makes their sale very tempting

I got a lovely long grey cardi-coat from m&s for £25, you'd love it Theia.

Posted: **Fri Dec 29, 2006 12:28 pm**

abbey;499832 wrote: I got a lovely long grey cardi-coat from m&s for £25, you'd love it Theia.

A cardi coat, Abbey??? Now that sounds good. I'm doing nothing tomorrow, I might just amble down the hill, I might just amble into m and s...no rush, no sweat...

...wonder what time it opens?

Posted: **Fri Dec 29, 2006 12:54 pm**

i just ordered a eighty dollar shirt i have been drooling over all year for ten dollars.....

Posted: **Fri Dec 29, 2006 1:22 pm**

theia;499852 wrote: A cardi coat, Abbey??? Now that sounds good. I'm doing nothing tomorrow, I might just amble down the hill, I might just amble into m and s...no rush, no sweat...

...wonder what time it opens?
You strange wanton cardi loving bird:wah:

Posted: **Fri Dec 29, 2006 1:29 pm**

They had to shut one of the biggest Sydney department stores on Boxing Day. Too many people and a complete riot!!!!

I wonder if there was a brown cardigan on sale????? Must have been what it was :sneaky:

Posted: **Fri Dec 29, 2006 1:45 pm**

It's so annoying.......

*whew*

sidestepped another one

Posted: **Fri Dec 29, 2006 1:50 pm**

I bought my daughter a £65 jacket reduced to £15 in the sale, i was pretty mad until i seen the one i liked at £80 reduced to £20, i bought it of course & am not that concerned about my daughters being reduced now

Posted: **Fri Dec 29, 2006 11:57 pm**

Sounds like a reasonable result, Buttercup. I popped my head round the door of a big Sydney department store this afternoon. Feeding frenzy going on. So I did a runner and had a quiet coffee instead.

I do remember, one year, fighting my way towards some bath towels. Much needed and at an affordable price for me, at that time. It was worth it.

Posted: **Sat Dec 30, 2006 10:15 am**

My old boss bragged how he used to give all his family members, "Gift Charge Cards" for Christmas for that very fact! He said that for the $250 gift card he gave them on Christmas day, that at the after Christmas day sales "they could get well over $500 worth of goodies for that same $250. And also get to pick things out of their "own" choosing, so no returns neded!

Over time, I kinda had to agree with him, so now we get some gifts for our relatives, so they can open some pressies, but always also give a generoius "Gift Charge Card" as well! And all are happy, and they get twice as much!