Sales Shopping 101

This list doesn’t just apply for those crazy sale times. It can also easily be consulted when embarking upon a shopping expedition on a busy day, or whenever you want to feel calm and unhurried and in the right mood for some fabulous purchases!
DO…wear separates. A top and pants or jeans are the most versatile for [...]

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Summer Sales, Spanish-style

No matter that summer only officially started last weekend, the Spanish summer sales are fast approaching. The upside of this is that once you have snaffled up your bargains you have the entire summer to enjoy your purchases. This year I am limiting my wish-list to 5 items, and have introduced a new element of [...]

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Save the Best ‘Til Last

As we near the end of another sale season this is a great time to snap up some really good discounted buys. Retailers start to take additional percentages off their already reduced prices as the need to clear the stock before the new season’s ranges arrive becomes more urgent. And the pressure to achieve targets [...]

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Wrap it Up

It is not for nothing that the one of the most popular of modern Christmas carols mentions Santa not only making a list, but checking it over and over again. Even if the red-suited (and apparently anal) present deliverer does not exist, his foolproof method for well executed Christmas shopping certainly does. And a jolly [...]

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