<p>Cape Cod chips, micro-brewery beers, twizzlers…you get the point!
<em>throws spice drops</em> (also found in bag DH has brought home)</p>
<p>Woo hoo! I’ll throw in a pitcher of Bellinis (it’s still morning here) and a bunch of miniature pecan pies to honor my daughter, who got accepted at SCAD in Georgia on Christmas Eve!</p>
<p>Congrats to your D, Moominmama!</p>
<p>And pecan pies=awesome</p>
<p>Edit: Re unauthorized grocery shopping, if DH shows up with dark chocolate in the bags, all is forgiven.</p>
<p>There’s just too much estrogen in here. It’s too hot, too. ;)</p>
<p>Hello my homepeeps,</p>
<p>Congrats to your D, Moominmama. She recieved such a wonderful present. No waiting on lines, no fancy bows or ribbons, and ya even got that no payment for ~9 months thing too.</p>
<p>Ok, here I am testing your memory…</p>
<p>When you last read my tale of Christmas eve shopping hell on post 9463 do any of you remember me saying that I was not going to the 8 am after christmas sale at Saks? My people, my people, if your’e not going to look out for me in the battle of me vs. Chicky, who is gonna have my back.</p>
<p>Christmas was nice and peaceful (the pot roast came out great) so I was a happy camper. I told Chicky, “Why don’t you check the Saks website because you may be able to catch your bag on sale on line.” I am so proud; I look on line, and I see that the bag is on sale. </p>
<p>M: Chicky, your bag is on sale on-line. Why don’t you order it, ship it to school, because there is no sales tax in NH so you’ll save a couple of $.</p>
<p>C: We’ll I might see somthing else I want so I still want to go to Saks. Plus, their network is backed up right now. You should go too because I am telling you that you may get an additional mark down on my coat. If you do can I keep the difference since you already spent the $$.</p>
<p>(note: Just like I have my network of friends on CC, Chicky has a shopping forum network of friends who told her that they were having problems purhasing a bag on line at Saks. They called customer service who told them that they could not take phone orders. You could either try later or come to the store at 8:00 am. She has friends who will be at Saks at 8am on December 26th.)</p>
<p>Even though I am on vacation this week, I still get up at the same time. I have walked the dog. Chicky is up and dressed (I did not know that she could roll out of bed this early because she doesn’t have a class or a job to attend today). </p>
<p>C: Oh mom, you’re ready.
M: I really don’t want to go
C: I need you to go just in case my coat is on sale because you will have to put in for the credit since you paid for it. I promise I will have you back in the house before noon.</p>
<p>Chicky and her reluctant mom get to Saks ~ 8:45 and there is a big crowd of people outside of the 5th avenue entrance (Alu I thought you said something about shopping with your east coast daughter. Where were you this morning?) . We go to the 49th street side where there are less people (not many).</p>
<p>Oh, these people are not playing they’re drinking their coffe, looking at their watches and scoping out a game plan for when they get into the store. People are pulling up in cabs and cars to stand out with the crowd of people. I hear a man telling his friend “watch, you will see all of these nice women, go crazy in the handbag department. We need to put this on You tube.”</p>
<p>The doors open at 8 am and they’re off (gosh I have a new respect for salespeople who have to work these holiday sales). People are running like crazy, to the pocket books and the elevators (watch out for that nice little grandma looking person, she is fast). Trying to get on the elevator is like trying to catch the subway to work (actually the subway up town really wasn’t bad this morning because a lot of people have the day off).</p>
<p>I am on the elevator, I press my floor, the door closes the elevator starts to go up, and then does that little drop thing (we are stuck). Someone presses the call bell, we start to go up and I get out on my floor. </p>
<p>I quickly go to the coat department, where yes, Chicky was right; there is a sign take 50% of the ticketed price from 8 am to 12. I go to the counter and I say to the sales person lets cut to the chase. I purchased this coat sunday evening, it is now on sale, what is the best way to handle the transaction? She tells me I have to return the coat, go to the rack get another coat and purchase it because they cannot do credit adjustments to previously pruchased items. I am a reasonable person who understands where she is coming from but I think that this is dumb but I go look for another coat. They do not have the coat in my D’s size. I go back to the sales lady and explain to her that there is not a coat on the rack in my D’s size, I just happen to be holding the coat that I want in the size that I want and if I can return and repurchase. Her manager is there and tells me that they normally don’t do this but she just gives me the credit ($307). It is now 8:16am I am finished and ready to go home. I call Chicky on her cell and ask her where is she and what is she doing. She tells me she is in the handbag department and come on down. I get back to the first floor and I start having flashbacks of when my mom used to take me to the January white sales (another event where normally nice people go crazy) and when my older sister used to be the Queen of the Table Shoes at Aloexanders.</p>
<p>So how many handbags can a woman loop on to both or her arms? The better question is how many handbags does a woman really need? This place is a mad house; a woman puts a bag down, another woman picks up the same bag. Women start grabbing bags from every where and asking the sales people “Is this bag on sale?” Salesperson gives the same response over and over again, “all of the sale bags are on the wall that says take 50% off ticketed price.” Prada, Valentino, Miu Miu, Marc Jabobs, Versace, you name it there is a bag on sale.</p>
<p>Chicky decides to get a different bag (see Ma, I told you the bag is not on sale on line). It is on sale for less than 1/3 of the price. After the $307 I saved on the coat she pays the balance and is a happy camper and I need a nap.</p>
<p>[Miu</a> Miu - Vitello Large Tote - Saks.com](<a href=“http://www.saksfifthavenue.com/main/ProductDetail.jsp?PRODUCT<>prd_id=845524446171643&FOLDER<>folder_id=282574491310761&ASSORTMENT<>ast_id=1408474399545537&bmUID=1198709256437&ev19=1:3]Miu”>http://www.saksfifthavenue.com/main/ProductDetail.jsp?PRODUCT<>prd_id=845524446171643&FOLDER<>folder_id=282574491310761&ASSORTMENT<>ast_id=1408474399545537&bmUID=1198709256437&ev19=1:3)</p>
<p>Don’t go, p2n. Don’t go. I’ve been wondering where you were.</p>
<p>You can ratchet down the estrogen and ratchet up the man-vibe by handicapping the BCS for us.</p>
<p>I like the different bag, sybbie.</p>
<p>But I am glad to be in a different world. While you were enduring Forced Shopping Spree, and mommusic’s crowd was playing cutthroat diplomacy… the jmcrowd was into cutthroat Trivial Pursuit. The team of jmmom/jmson prevailed :D.</p>
<p>Alexanders?? Now there’s a store I haven’t thought about in a million years! Used to go to the one in White Plains. So you got dragged to Alexanders and you take your dau to Saks? She is one lucky lady. But $1500 for a bag!!! :eek: even at less than 1/3 the price thats still… yikes!!</p>
<p>I would trade the crowd at Saks for the masses at the southbound merge on the NJ Turnpike tonight. Remind me why anyone lives on the East Coast?! A half-hour home and into my second glass of wine…</p>
<p>Jym,</p>
<p>I am with you. I have a job and I don’t have a bag that costs as much as the one she does. to her credit, she is a saver, so she will hold on to her money (and the $$ she got as gifts yesterday from grandparents, godparents, aunts *& uncles), for go a lot of stuff to get what she wants and avoids at all cost paying full price for it (another item in what she says is her good adult wardrobe and the bag would be a good staple item)</p>
<p>About all I know is that the Seminoles are nowhere near the BCS this year.:eek:</p>
<p>However, I am glad to see some familiar screen names. :)</p>
<p>Darn, I missed 9500! </p>
<p>Sybbie, my first job was at the Alexanders on Queens Blvd. when I was a teenager! I haven’t thought about that store in years.</p>
<p>We played the new version of Cranium (WOW). Not bad - though unfortunately no one in this family can hum - or when we can hum others refuse to recognize them.</p>
<p>Jmmom,</p>
<p>Played Kerplunk and Apples to Apples with the kiddos. </p>
<p>I am also an official member of their band in Rock Band on the xbox 360. I know more of the lyrics and cadence to the songs, so I get vocals fequently. I am OK on guitar on Easy mode, but a disaster on drums. I can keep a beat, but not three beats: foot pedal, rignt and left hands.</p>
<p>Still, it “beats” a trip to Macy’s. And I still remember the Alexander’s tag line: “How lucky can you get.” Got my first real suit at Alexanders in Paramus NJ, a beautiful (not) three piece plaid number.</p>
<p>Last night a different group of friends was over and they played Life. Nice to see the old games still being enjoyed in this day of computer & video games.</p>
<p>m&Sdad - a three-piece plaid suit from Alexander’s? That sounds pretty scary. I remember my brothers getting their suits at Alexander’s - leisure suits in pastel greens and blues, to be exact…lol.</p>
<p>Sybbie - I think your D has a career in something fashionable ahead of her. Love the purple bag. Wouldn’t have the guts to carry it. Would have the willingness however to spend that kind of money on a true object of desire…</p>
<p>Ain’t no wrong or right with what things cost, frivolous things that don’t hurt anyone. If you can afford it and you want it and you are otherwise kind to old ladies, small children, and furry animals, go ahead.</p>
<p>And while my dear mother would cringe at the thought of a plaid suit, even she wouldn’t say it was, wrong, per se. Just, um, a little, well, shall we say, NOT DONE? Hehe. But she would never think someone was a lesser person even so. Hope you all are enjoying your holidays… Alumother is NOT working this week!!! I feel like a different person:).</p>
<p>I have two words to defend the suit: late seventies. </p>
<p>Currently my suits are all the solid, two piece variety, primarily Jones New York.</p>
<p>“Congrats to your D, Moominmama. She recieved such a wonderful present. No waiting on lines, no fancy bows or ribbons, and ya even got that no payment for ~9 months thing too.” </p>
<p>Thanks, mommusic and Sybbie! Yeah, that no payment thing is nice – not even any interest!</p>
<p>We were, weren’t we? DH has a plaid… and I do mean PLAID… topcoat… that I will happily lend to you, m&s, to complete your ensemble.</p>
<p>Whatever was he imbibing when that purchase was made? We are talking white ground, red and green plaid. Wide collar, but of course. I have saved it because NO ONE would believe it if I didn’t have physical evidence. It’s on the other coast, so I can’t take a photo. But if there is a call for one, I will post it in a couple of months.</p>