What have you bought in the sales?

[laughinglil]

so far i have bought
Fcuk jeans
fcuk jumper
fcuk top
ted baker t-shirt
skirt from topshop
blouse from oasis

then again i bought a louis vuitton bag and a barbour jacket so I didn't save any money!

Too much!

bloody hell

I am skint so can't imagine where people get the money from to spend on loads of clothes in the sales

I'm off to the sales on Thursday, a bit late I know but I have always found that the shops put the crap out first and hope that it goes and then bring out the better stuff a week or so in. I will let you know what I get.

19.99 pair of boots from TK Maxx and a £22.50 (reduced from £45) coat from Matalan. Also spent nearly £100 worth of Next vouchers (Xmas present) in the sale - loads of tops, pair of blue cords at full price, Christmas cards for next year , Birthday cards at 49p instead of the usual 99p and birthday wrapping paper reduced

Nothing. Hate shopping when the shops are full.

yes agree Tinker

I dont mind it pre Christmas, its all a bit exciting, but find the sale shopping unutterably depressing.

Nothing for myself. The sales in town were awful - busy, clothes piled up like jumble sales and mostly rubbish. I managed about an hour and got fed up and gave up. Will wait until sales finish to get what I need.

Did get DD some trousers and a cardigan from mothercare's sale though which were lovely and what I was looking for anyway.

ditto, hate sales, bloody jumble sales full of tat noone wanted the first time round.

And people.

Why do people queue outside Next at 5am? Why?

Tbh I think I should have kept my vouchers and spent them on new stuff as I probably would have got a couple of nice tops rather than quite a few 'they will do' tops iyswim

tops from Zara
boots
long school socks for me to wear under said boots and stop them rubbing my shins

crinkly silk skirt (£12)
Jacket for work
shoes for ds

I've got:
two ribbed polo neck jumpers from Next (might take one back)
Orange short sleeve, v neck top from Next
Green long sleeved embroidered top from Next
White see-through smock type top from H&M
White 3/4 sleeve top from H&M for layering
White vest top from H&M also for layering
Khaki military style jacket from Next
Green bag from Next
Beads (wooden with green pompoms) from next
Silver scarf from Next
Couple of hair bobbles from Accessorize.

I reckon that was only about £100 altogether. And the way we afforded it was that we spent less than £100 each on Christmas presents, didn't go out on Christmas Eve, on New Year's Eve only went to local Italian with kids, only spent about £40 extra on food than normal.

Got dd some trousers half price in H and M, pinafore from Next, hooded fleece and polo neck (for school) from Gap. ds some Rocha cropped jeans from Debenhams. dh got 2 prs of trousers and top from Next and a work shirt. Me a top from Esprit. Planning to do a Debenhams shop online later.

Dungarees for DD (£6 instead of £12)

Curtains for our bedroom (£60 instead of £120 and have been looking for some for a while).

Have tried going into Nex a few times but get too dispirited

Only posted about me. Have been more restrained with the children:

DD a brown flowered top and an embroidered red cord dress that she loves.
DS a pair of jeans and a t-shirt.
All from Next

Also forgot I got a pair of ballet shoes from Next.

DH got a pair of work shoes, work trousers, tie and a t-hsirt.

oops forgot my top from Monsoon...

On the first day of next sale, I rushed out to buy half a dozen tops, and a few for ds. I liked most of them but decided to take a couple back, felt very pleased with myself that I wouldn't be spending so much money after all. Only when I went back to return the items, I ended up buying several more tops in the sale, I daren't take any of those back.

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i went to Matalan

and bought a

long gyspy dark green skirt
green tight t-shirt with a fox and "Foxy" on front
and a browny/ green shrug cardy

it was a bargain!!

Nothing for myself but, got some bedding,

single 100% cotton fitted bed sheet 4.00 from 12.99

and double 100& cotton fitted bed sheet 5.51 from 14.99

Slippers for dd2 from M&S £1

2 pairs of navy joggin bottoms for ds for nursery £3.98

Boots for me £25 instead of £50

Jeans for me £10 instead of £25

Shoes for dd1 £10 instead of £15

Cinderella bag for dd2 for school £6

TRainers for Ds £9

I did quite well, normally don't go anywhere near sales
jeans from Replay
black flat pumps from Office
cardi from French Connection
t-shirt from Miss Sixty

saved so much money as all at least -30%. that's what I told DH. he didn't get it.

I bought a Monsoon bag - which makes all my other clothes look great!

And a couple of long length cardigans, a top and 2 long skirts and 2 scarves.

And 5 tops, 1 skirt & 1 cardi for dd from Monsoon

And some brown suede boots from Jones in a pre-xmas sale and some gear for dd in the Boden pre-Xmas sale.

So a major financial blow-out in fact when I normally buy nothing at all in the sales

Not much, I agree with those who say that the stuff in sales is often the dog ends of stock. However I did manage to get a top and a pair of trousers for DD from Next (£11 for both). For me, a pair of flatteringly cut jeans from Monsoon (£25 down from £50), a khaki and red O'Neill hoody (£22 down from £55) and a red Billabong l/s tshirt (£12 down from £25). I also got a bargain pair of cords from Dorothy Perkins for £15. Not much really and nothing really fahionable that will date in 5 minutes.