I’m wondering how many people are actually going Black Friday shopping this year.
Today we got a little bit of a preview of that craziness when we went out to Allen Premium Outlets. For some reason, Allen has always been a million miles away to me, but it turns out it was just a 20 minute drive from where we live. Jabari surprisingly wanted to do some shopping (which is EXTREMELY rare because he hates it) and heard there was a Sketchers outlet store in Allen.
The drive there wasn’t so bad, it was when we drove into the shopping center to park was when we hit traffic. I think it took somewhere around 10 or 15 minutes just to get in mostly because we were fighting a lot of pedestrian traffic. But when we did get in, parking wasn’t so bad if you didn’t mind parking in the middle of the shopping center.
When we got out of the car and found a map to figure out where we were and where we needed to go, we found out that where we needed to go was all the way on the other side of where we were (as our luck would have it). Thankfully we wore our walking shoes.
Jabari and I ended up going different ways and decided we would meet up later since we both had our cell phones. I stopped by the Lane Bryant sore and found a LOT of stuff was 40% off. I ended up buying a grey corduroy blazer and an olive green cami for like $40. I refrained from buying anything else because I had one more stop I wanted to make at The Cosmetics Company Outlet which happened to be just 3 or 4 stores down.
I’ve heard a lot of rumors about The Cosmetics Company Outlet, that it’s a great place to get high-end department store cosmetics at a discounted price. This is true. I found MAC Mineralize Skin Finishes for like $19.50 compared to the regular price of $27. They carried brands like Bobbi Brown, Clinique, and Estee Lauder–a lot of the products were either overstock or discontinues. I didn’t buy very much, just 3 MAC Pigments for $13.75 each (although I think one was $15.75 because it was a glitter): Copperbeam (which is a beautiful rich copper color), Reflects – Red Black (a dark wine color with glitter), and Melon (a shimmery melon color). I think I walked away with a decent stash though. I don’t know if I’ll come back during the holidays (I imagine it just gets really packed and crazy around that time) but I’m pretty sure I’ll come back again.
The only other shopping I plan on doing this week is the grocery store, then Michael’s and Bed Bath & Beyond on Friday. Anyone else doing major Black Friday shopping?
