AL Prepster: End of Season Deals

Although ending the holiday season is a little depressing after merry times spent with family and friends, there are a few benefits to starting the new year. One of those is one word: SALE! As stores and designers prepare to receive spring shipments, they must make room for all of these fresh items, so we all know sale is the answer. Although most of it is last season, you can find pretty much any of the items you wanted for Christmas but didn't get for a lower price. In fact, I have a short little story to tell. One of the many things my parents gave me for Christmas was the pair of tan and black Kate Spade pyramid bow gloves . Unfortunately, the sizing was off on the Nordstrom chart and the size 7 were way too small for my hands even though leather stretches. When I went online to exchange, they no longer had any in stock! However, and couple of days later I found the same gloves but in solid black online. They did not show that they had the next size up in stock, but I went through the live chat customer service. Their service was amazing. The person helping me searched through the stock in all of the Norstrom stores, and they only had one pair left in my size! He contacted the store for me and had the lady in the accessories department call me so I could order over the phone. The lady was super nice. When she found out where I was from she asked me if I ever visited Nordstrom and I had to tell her no because they don't have any stores around here (but I do online shop!). Anyway, my gloves came in within the next week and they fit perfectly- and the leather smells nice.

So, the moral of the story is to hit the stores in your area and the ones online because some big sales are happening. Since boutiques usually are not chains, make sure to check those out because several where I live are having sales where everything in the store in 50% -including Judith March dresses! I actually found some dresses once for $20 that were originally $80! I love end of season sales! To help you get started, I've included some of my favorite items on sale right now. A few popular places online with huge sales right now are Piperlime (extra 50% sale items), C Wonder (extra 50% off sale items), and Nordstrom.

*For Piperlime, enter code NEED for the extra 50% off