With both P and I having been away from home for a week or so, we were running direly short of fresh food. Easiest option was another evening trip to Sainsbury's to see what we could pick up in the way of reduced-price bargains. Sadly, in the food section there wasn't much to choose from, although I did get some nice bagged salads heavily reduced - and they're still good and fresh three days later. The whole supermarket was as if a plague of locusts had been through it - which, of course, they probably had as it's a Bank Holiday here on Monday!! Anyway, what we missed in the way of food bargains I more than made up for in reduced-price clothing. All the summer clothes were really heavily reduced but what I didn't discover until we got to the checkout was that the sale prices also had a further 25% off them as well.
I got a beautiful pure linen black and cerise tunic top reduced from £30.00 to £6.75. It looks fabulous on and goes a treat with a pair of skinny-leg black jeans I've got.
A pair of denim shorts reduced from £14.00 to £3.30 - which is probably cheaper than many charity shops would charge for the same sort of thing second-hand. Mum did point out that I was being a tad optimistic buying shorts after the dire summer we've had but they won't eat or drink anything in my wardrobe if I don't wear them until next year. And, who knows, we may have a glorious September - paws crossed!
A long-sleeved linen blend tunic top reduced from £22.00 to £4.95 (and I recently paid the same price for a second-hand tunic top in a local charity shop. ) I wasn't so keen on this one when I tried it on at home (the changing rooms in Sainsbury's were locked so I couldn't try the items on there.) I'm not sure whether to return it (I've got 28 days to do so apparently) or whether to try listing it on ebay. I'll have to give that a bit of thought.
Right, that's me done with spending for a month or two - well, except at the boot sales. Not entirely sure if they'll be running this weekend as the weather here has been, and still is, so wet that I suspect many of the boot sale fields will be a tad marshy.
Lovely finds, especially the cerise top. We haven't had too bad a summer and even managed a car boot this morning. x
Posted by: Vix | 08/27/2011 at 04:16 PM