Dancing In The Sand

Ikea or Vegas, which is a worse Hell?

On Saturday afternoon I went to Ikea with my friend, MM.  She is the same one I went to Nordstroms with on the Last Hurrah.  A major shopper.  And now a major pain in my experimental ass.  Normally I'd jump at the chance to spend time together, but she's the kind of gal who can drop $1,000 in about the same number of seconds and right now it's hard not to jump in and join her. 

At Ikea I saw this amazing rug.  It comes in four colors and the yellow green would go beautifully in my sun-room.  The purple one is beautiful too, and both a steal for $249.00.  I'm wondering how much my mom wants to spend on my birthday gift.  There were a ton of other things I would have loved to buy, including this bed that would make my teenage son want to clean his room every day, or not. 

The realization hit me that the category "Things I Would Have Bought" might be pitifully small.  I'm not shopping because it is tempting--- in a "Brad Pitt is drunk on a ski vacation and fighting with Angelina and just asked me back to his hotel room"kind of way.  But if I DON'T shop it will be difficult to write about things I would have bought.  Dilemma. 

Vegas, or a shopping-less Hell

Being in Vegas without shopping was like being in hell.  I WENT shopping, but I didn't buy anything.  It was the first time, probably since I was 10 or 11 that I was on vacation without buy something other than food.  Vacations should be a time to to buy, buy, buy.  Actually that sounds good anytime.  It was hard. It hurt.  Bad.

Not helping the pain was the boyfriend who bought a new cute compact computer (perfect size for 90% of my purses) and dropped $2,400 in about 3.5 minutes.  Lovely.  Our hotel room looked like an eBay store for computers.  There were his 3 and mine, all on a very small hotel desk. 

THINGS I WOULD HAVE BOUGHT

There were many more, but here are a couple at the top of my list-

Ann Taylor - $128.00  This is a beautiful silk looking dress, but WASHABLE, which is so cool.  Love the bright flower and collar that shows off the shoulders.

   

Aldo Shoes- $125.00  This year flowers are still hot and these shoes are amazing.  I would have worn them with a beautiful gray dress.  But alas, they are still at Aldo.  I would have purchased a lovely pair of red pumps as well.