Lo and behold, I present to you the stupidest Sephora haul I've ever made. I still cannot get over the sheer stupidity and foolishness of the events that transpired.
My friends very kindly gave me a Sephora gift card on my birthday last year and I was waiting for Sephora to hold one of their sales to ensure maximum savings and minimum spending. Smart spending and being thrifty amirite?!
Just as I was heading out to town to meet my friends for lunch, the Gmail notification bar slid down from the top of the screen of my iPhone with the blessed words "Exclusive Member Private Sale". Fuck yes!! The wait was over!!!!! I was totally patting myself on the back for being so patient and thrifty!!!!
We went to Sephora after lunch and I picked out the three items on the top in the photo and I thought to myself, "Well done, I only got what I needed and it is mostly under budget." I'd given myself a $100 budget for the sale and the total of those three items after 20% off and using the gift card would have been about $50. I WAS SO PLEASED WITH MYSELF YOU HAVE NO IDEA.
So we queued, and as I got to the cashier and handed over my member card with the confidence of a woman who went to a sale and remained under her budget, I COULDN'T FIND MY FREAKING GIFT CARD. I sheepishly told the cashier I was looking for my gift card and started frantically opening up various parts of my wallet and sliding out cards from slots to look for the damned card. The queue behind me was growing longer, the cashier was looking at me while I dug through my wallet... I was holding up the queue!! Omg I bet everyone is staring daggers into my back. Omg I am becoming the wretched person that holds up queues! Omg I bet the cashier thinks I am incompetent! I broke.
I assumed I'd left the card in one of my bags or in my room because it isn't out of habit for me to leave things all over the place so I gave up, and paid $88 for the three things. On hindsight I don't think many people noticed I was holding up the queue and I also had the option of leaving the queue to look for my gift card.
Anyway, as soon as I got out of the queue, I found that little fucker hiding inconspicuously in it's slot.
I was soooo bummed. I tried asking them to refund the items and cash them in again along with the gift card but they could only refund me through another gift card. Resignedly, I comforted myself by telling myself I could use the gift card the next sale.
At the end of the day as we were about to go home, we passed by another Sephora and I thought, "Fuck it, let's just spend the gift card and get it over and done with." So I picked up the two items in the photo below, and did my calculations. After the discount and gift card, I only needed to pay $5! I was still under budget! This was great!!! I got in the queue again, this time with the confidence of a woman who knows where she placed her fucking gift card.
I bet you're thinking, that's it right? What could go wrong? The end of my stupidity is now!!!
We are WRONG. I was WRONG.
In which a scene in American Horror Story depicts my life and stupidity
I picked up a $41 scrub that was, again, hiding inconspicuously among the $21 scrubs which I wanted to buy. The packaging was exactly the same. And I blindly paid for it because I thought I saw the price tag wrongly and the scrub I wanted was $41.
I came home with a hemorrhaging wallet, and a $16 refund in a gift card.
I am no confident woman. I am a dumb fuck.
Fuck.
