Victoria Secrets

I had a very special person send me a gift card as a Christmas present. Everyone that knows me that I am not a huge fan of gift cards. I feel as though they are impersonal and a cop out to the act of gift giving. There is something about the thought process and the idea behind the gift that I enjoy when I receive a gift. Even if I hate the gift, I don't return things. I just kind of smile and enjoy that they took the time to pick something out that was special for me. That completely goes out the window when you get a gift card...however, a gift card does have its perks. I can pick out whatever it is that I want.

Well it took me about 6 months and roughly 5 trips to Victoria Secrets before I was actually able to spend the gift card, the best part is that I ended up doing it online! Swallow mentioned that they were having their semi-annual sale so I should go see if I could find anything. I thought to myself, that is a great plan! Well until I actually walked into the store. The thing I hate about sales are that I actually have to shop! I know you must thinking, that I am insane because technically you have to shop to purchase anything, but that isn't true. Usually, when I go to a specialty store like Victoria Secrets, I inform the sales clerk what it is that I am looking for and they grab it, show it to me, and I buy it. Totally painless! Oh, that goes right out the window when there is a sale. They have bins for you to literally dig through. There are people that are reaching over you (probably with dirty hands) while trying to grab out of the same small bin that you are trying to find just the right bra. Well, I am really sorry, but no matter how reduced the price is, if it isn't free, then I want no part in that type of shopping.

Don't get me wrong, if I go into a Ross or TJ Maxx or something similar, then I have no problem searching for things. Very infrequently do you get the "reachers" in a store like that. However, a specialty store like VS that is having one of its two yearly sales, watch out. After a good 10 minutes of being utterly annoyed, I decided no matter how much money I was about to save, I don't want to have anything to do with bin shopping. So, I come home, walk in the door and Swallow asks "why don't you have any bags?" Good question, I respond. I tell her about my experience and she enlightens me that the sale is online and they have free shipping! GRRRRRRR. Why didn't she tell me this before I drove to the store, bin shopped, dealt with probably dirty people, and got annoyed. I did however, get a cup of coffee out of it, so the adventure wasn't a total loss!

I go up to my room, turn on my computer and I log on. To my amazement I get the pleasure of shopping at my leisure, and then all I have to do is press purchase. I was so excited! I got to save money and buy the stuff from the semi-annual sale, I got to use my gift card, and I didn't have to do anything but click the mouse a few times and typed a few letters on the keyboard. Never again will I go to VS for one of there sales. It is absolutely pointless! Why do we even have stores? I think I'll be doing a lot more online shopping. How can I go wrong? Free shipping, no lines, no wasting gas to drive to the mall and I get all the same prices. Hmmmmm, let me think about how could this situation could be bad...oh right it isn't instant gratification! Okay, so honestly how often does retail therapy work when you have to bin shop with the next random reacher?