Making a list...

I won a competition at work today and got $150 bucks!!! Whoo hoo!! In all my excitement I randomly decided to check out a nearby premium outlet mall. After work I drove 15 minutes in the wrong direction so I can trudge through the Guess outlet and Kenneth Cole outlet, and all that excitement was for nothing. There were so many things I could not decide!! And I definitely did not want to spend the whole entire $150, and for some odd reason I was struggling with spending even $35 for cute heels. First of all, I decided that I definitely need to lose some weight. I am by no means fat, however I've gained about 20 pounds in the past year and a half, and that is really depressing to deal with. And honestly, I look atrocious in jeans right now. My body is out of proportion (just like most people's!) my thighs/hips are very thick, yet the lower part of my leg (calves/ankles) are skinny, so when I put on jeans I look like a flippin' can of busted biscuits. I don't know how to explain it. Anyway, I decided that since so many things caught my eye, I needed to make a list. Because there is stuff I actually need, I was not looking to spend money just for kicks.
Here's the list!

1) Jeans (fo sho, I only have one pair of jeans that fit!)
2) Brown pumps (these are a must-have, and I've been looking for just the right pair for a while now)
3) A pretty shirt (I.E. something colorful, perhaps purple, red or turquoise)
4) Purple or red heels (I guess this may seem random, but I don't have any colorful heels, and I need something to pop out with jeans!)
5) A new purse (preferably purple or brown) I only have one purse, which is sad considering I'm a girl. I just don't buy one until mine falls apart, it seems like a waste of money...
6) A Black or White winter coat, I don't own a heavy coat, and while this may seem odd, I live in Texas and I'm inside 90% of the time, so there's very little need really, but I've always wanted a nice, thick, winter coat.
7) A nice sweater (seems simple right? It is)

Okay, so obviously I don't need a lot of this stuff. But it's at least it's a plan.

So what are the odds that I'm going to get all this on $100. I'm going to go with slim to none unless I just completely do not care about quality. But, I can definitely work on the list over the next few months.

**UPDATE

So, I went back to the outlet mall and I got 4 out of the seven things on my list. Yay!!

Jeans $24 (Guess, half off of half off, hah!)

Shoes $30 (Kenneth Cole Reaction, 30% off of half off)

Cute Shirt $16 (Guess, half off)

Sweater(s) $35 (Aeropostale, one was 12.99 originally 49.99 and the other one was half off)

Grand Total: $105, and I officially love sales and I've decided it will be only be rare exceptions that I pay full price for anything!

**Update 2

I got $125 for X-mas this year. So, on black Friday (yikes) I braved the madness and went back to my favorite outlet mall. I've never attempted to shop the day after thanksgiving or X-mas, and now I know why. First of all, the sales really weren't that great, in fact I saw better sales when I went the weekend before and bought the other items on my list, and second of all, the traffic is just absurd, I think it's more irritating than the rude customers and irritated saleswomen.

First, I hit up Kenneth Cole, blech, nothing going on there. Then, I went to Guess (yes again, I freakin love Guess) and also, not much going on. Then I went to BCBG which I absolutely adore even though their stuff is vastly out of my price range, but, it's supposed to be the day of sales. I tried on a few things, and they had TONS of dresses on sale, and I mean on sale, like 70% off, which meant the dresses were still about $90-$125 bucks, too much for me (right now). I might feel better about paying that much for one dress when I have my credit cards paid off, maybe. After I tried on a bunch of clothes (and nothing really looked right, I swear they're making these clothes smaller and smaller), I wondered over to their accessories. And I saw it, the cutest purse ever. I was immediately in love, and it was only $69, marked down from $225, I decided I could pay this much for an absolutely adorable purse, especially since it was so steeply discounted (picture is not exact, but similiar) . It's black though, not purple or brown, but I'm totally okay with that. I left the store and finished my trek around the outlet mall and I came across ALDO. Yay! Just what I needed, a store with super-cute (Albeit somewhat poor-quality) colorful shoes. I went in, and I was immediately in love with the first pair of shoes I saw

However they were not on sale ($90) and they did not have my size (yeah despite the price I actually asked for my size). So, I thought, okay fine, I really MUST HAVE these shoes (it's amazing how much more you want something when you've just been told you can't have it), and I decide to leave the outlet mall and drive 25 minutes West to a regular mall. Normally I would not have done this, because the full-price thing would have scared me off. But, it was Black Friday, and I was sure they would be having some sort of sale. I got to the mall, and after passing through Macy's and seeing a to-die-for pair of Nine West (purple and black croc skin, yummy!) I made my way to ALDO. And lo and behold, they had the same pair, and guess what? For $59.95, this somewhat irritated me for some reason (maybe it's the fact that you go to an outlet mall to pay less). Anywho, I tried them on and discovered they were extremely uncomfortable, and I am just not the type of girl who will put up with pain for an awesome pair of heels. I just can't do that! SO, I went back to Macy's in hopes of buying the pair of Nine West I had seen, however they were pretty much wiped clean of almost all the heals in my size (7 1/2), so I went back to ALDO and bought a pair of purple croc-skin heels. They're very cute, and I'm very satisfied.

So, the moral of the story? This is why I never drag anyone shopping with me. Because it took me six hours and two different malls to get only two items. Who would do that to their bf or best gf? I wouldn't, and he would kill me and my gf's would rip my hair out. Now, I only have one item left. Wheehee!!!