Giveaway: Confessions of a Shopaholic!
As we’ve already mentioned before, we’re very excited here at NSO about the upcoming Confessions of a Shopaholic movie – it looks so damn pretty! And today, thanks to the lovely folks at Random House, we’ve got 3 copies of the brand spanking new movie tie-in Confessions of a Shopaholic book up for grabs for three lucky readers.
To score yourself one of the three copies, we want your shopaholic stories. What is the most over the top shopping mission you’ve ever embarked on?
Ever gone interstate just to pick up a pair of shoes? (guilty).
How about flying half way across the world for three and half days of shopping (umm…also guilty).
Or maybe you’ve had a more Becky Bloomwood-esque shopping moment, such as stabbing yourself in the eye with a Target price tag in your eagerness to get that top on? (yes, guilty, and god it freaking hurt!).
Whatever it is, we want to hear it – and at the end we’ll pick our three favourite shopaholic stories, which may be the funniest, the craziest or just plain weird, to win!
How to enter:
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Then, share your shopaholic moment by using the comments below, and please make sure you enter with an email address you use regularly so that we can contact you. Comments must be added before Sunday 22nd February 2009 at 6pm, and our give-away is only open to Australian residents and one entry per person will be accepted!
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Stores were closing, rushing around for the perfect outfit I hastily grabbed a rack of dresses to try at leisure. With one swipe of the credit card and $5000 down I hired a van to cart my shopping home. Following day back at store to cash in my returns, only to be told I’d grabbed SALE items….NONREFUNDABLE! AHHH!
A pair of shoes (will always bring me undone) I’d seen in a magazine,had me going all over town. I rang the stockist and they named the stores so off I went with no reward. I finally track down a pair in Sydney and they finally agree to post them to me. A couple of hundred later they finally arrive and their TO BIG. Just my luck, as not returnable.
Looking for a fab outfit for my sons passing out parade and graduation dinner I grabbed the girls for support.
Well we traipsed from Melbourne, then Richmond, Southland, DFO Cheltenham before heading to Fountain Gate. There was no dress shop unearthed or dress left on the rack. By the time we were finished I think staff were throwing money at us to leave. We had a ball and found the perfect outfits. We bought everything. Shoes, underwear the new bras had never been touched by so many for so little. Dress and jewellery. When we got home we just threw everything in the middle of the loungeroom and collapsed. Thanks to my husband for picking us up cooking dinner and putting all the new attire on coathangers
Best day out with the girls ever.
Cant wait to do it again
Was T-O-T-A-L-L-Y out of control!
What happened took its toll!
WANTED everything I bought that day NOW!
Paying off credit card? Never figured out HOW!
My Biggest shopaholic mission was spending $28,000 on myself and have nothing to show for it, just like out of Brewsters Millions. And I did it too. Lots of massages, motel rooms and expensive airfares in business class.
2 cases of very expensive red wine… put some ‘Shiraz’amatazz back into my life!!!!
I wanted to get a scarf from Tiffany's (semi early birthday present okay?! ha) but I couldn't get the item sent to me for several reasons (a few I'm sure Becky Bloomwood could relate to her self – e.g "Why do you need another scarf?") so I arranged for it to be Fed-Ex'd to a friend and she popped into the mail to me – had to pay for postage twice but it was very much worth it!
In my circle of friends soap-making became suddenly popular. Being fully aware that I am not one of those crafty type of girls I embarked on my soap making mission, which started with buying a soap making book which listed all the ingredients. One by one, I told myself, I'd buy the ingredients and, once I have everything ready, then I'd start making soap. Eventually it took me 2 years to collect all ingredients. By that time I was very certain that I didn't want to do it and gave them all away to someone who's keen. She asked me why – "you could make several batch of soaps with those…." then I go, erm, dunno, I sort of wanted to do it but then I kinda lost interest while I collected ingredients for 2 years…..
I have a serious and sad leopard print addiction – its so bad I think I have Gold Coast blood in my veins – I cannot walk past a leopard print item without trying it on so when I spotted a leopard print high waist pencil skirt ON SALE it was love at first sight – of course it would have been better if it was actually in my size – getting it on was okay but getting it off was a different story – for some reason I decided it would be better to pull it up OVER MY HEAD – of course it got stuck – my arms were stuck up in the air with the waist band around my elbows and the hem was at belly button height – I had to call a shop assistant to come and pull me out of it – did I mention it was Thursday night shopping and there was about 10 girls in line for the change rooms :(
My sister and I were excited about going to this sale, we were so excited that we didn't look at the date that it was actually on and went a week early. The doors were closed so we ended up banging on the doors until someone let us in and told us that we were a week early. For our troubles, they gave us VIP membership!
I am a self confessed shopaholic. I love it, sadly enough it makes me happy. I probably have, with no exaggeration, about 100 items in my closet with tags on them, i don't like to remove them until im sure i will wear them, in case i later run out of money and would have to gift them of sell them for food!! I have a rule though that i must try on everything before i buy, i find that this limits unnecessary spending. Now having 2 young kids my obsession has been harder to do, which is good in a way, but sometimes i still try to try things on. In my haste due to babies crying while changing i have had to throw my clothes on and leave the change room, Not noticing my skirt was tucked into the back of my undies!!! HORROR!! … That is until some kind lady got the nerve to tell after an hour … learning my lesson I have cut down on unnecessary shopping.
When I was about 12 years old, I told my mum that all I ever wanted was to go shopping ALL day and come home carrying millions and millions of shopping bags like a movie star!
On my 13th birthday, my parents took me to LA for my birthday (to go to Disneyland – I know, I'm very lucky!). We went shopping in the Galleria Shopping Centre and I ended up with lots of shopping bags.
I turned to my mum when we walked into the hotel and said "Look Mummy, dreams really do come true" swirling all my shopping bags around me!
I'm always buying things on sale, eventhough they're not my size or things I'd wear. I buy boob tubes [ I don't even wear them, coz of my big bust], dresses [I'm a tomboy], boots [which can't go over my calves], jackets [which is too hot to wear in sunny Qld], but I just buy them to look at. Also, I have a guilty conscience. I always remove 50% off tags and try to attach them onto clothes I buy. I can't afford to go on my big sprees anymore….. Mr Rudd I need more money!
i went to Vietnam recently and I always like to shop for anythin special that that particular country is famous for or at least a few trinkets as a momento! I went with a partially packed suitcase (as always hot, how much room does swimmers and singlet tops take??). Anyway, I soon discovered how CHEAP everything was, to the point that it wasn't a factor! I was shopping like a millionaire in Beverley Hills, basically buying everything i liked ("i have that one and that one and that one etc). I left Vietnam with 60KG of luggage and didn't have to pay for excess – with also bags in each hand as carryon! At sydney airport, the cabbie couldn't pick up my bag and when I got home I forgot I lived on the 3 rd floor with stairs! It took half an hour and numerous trips to finally get into the front door – but it was worth it!
Im such a bitch when it comes to getting what i want, I went shopping with a friend who really wanted to buy herself a ring, I loved one of the ones that she was trying on so I told her it didn't suit her and the colours where just not right for her skin colour, anyway she chose a different one and that afternoon I went back and brought the one she was wanting for myself, so now i have to make sure that when I might see her I dont wear it which is proving more difficult than I thought it would be.
Serves me right.
When I got my first full time job and received my first cheque my girlfriend and I blew the lot, we bought everything we liked, clothes, jewellery, we had a ball and I never regretted it at all
I buy myself a whole heap of giftcards each month and tell my husband that I either won them or get them for market research I have done so when I shop I don't have to hide the items or have to lie about prices. He thinks all of my clothes, makeup, shoes and bags that I buy are all free. I hate hiding my beautiful buys I love to show them off and wear them and this has been the most effective way.
I have done the trip to Sydney to grab some great bargins and some not,and to Hong Kong to pick up those designer bags,but i guess the best is the time i saw these most stunning pair of shoes in the Shop To you Drop mag and i just had to have them so i called the listings where to buy and here in Chadstone they were,so with my very young 4 children (at the time 6 month old,two 2 year olds and a 6 year old)i put them in the car at 4.30pm thursday afternoon and drove 20minutes down the freeway to buy these stunning shoes and go straight home for dinner!!!
On my last day of working in my previous job (i had been there for 8 years!) I hadn't heard from my bosses or any of my co-workers to wish me luck in my new job, so at lunch I went to the most expensive shoe store in town and purchased a $900 pair of shoes as retail therapy!! On my return I was welcomed by a huge bunch of flowers and champagne from my boss! I still kept the shoes though!
I was once quoted on national tv as saying "I will buy anything" and I will, its the thrill of pulling out one of my many credit cards, new products just have to have them, oh and if my sister doesnt have it I have too. Hi my name is Tan and I am a shopaholic!
I JUST LOVE THE FEELING I GET WHEN I BRING BAGS OF NEW CLOTHES HOME AND PUT THEM IN MY CUPBOARD. ITS AN ADRENALIN RUSH
Shopping in the Thailand markets battling the humidity, the pesky hawkers and trying to convert the local currency so we didn't get ripped off. We did managed to get everything on our long as your arm list before the markets shut!
Spending over $5000 on Prada clothes.. if this Devil wears Prada it was 'Satan'ly one 'Hell' of an 'Imp'ressive shop!
I bought an expensive pair of PVC PANTS,
Was planning to wear them out to DANCE,
They were so hot INSIDE,
From the heat I almost DIED,
These horrible pants now live in the back of my CLOSET,
Until a Charity Shop I DEPOSIT!
When I convinced my Husband to have a stopover in Dubai after a trip to Europe, just so I could visit the grand malls there. He was stunned at the indoor ski centre at the mall, which left me to do hours of shopping!
The day before we went on a cruise, my partner & I decided we had nothing to wear (yeah, right).
So we went shopping. For 12 hours straight.
Everything we took on board was new. From shoes to sunhat to swimsuits (3 each) to evening dresses.
Great cruise. Disasterous credit card bill when we got home.