Shopping Trip

At work, most of the girls dress up like they have got good bargains from Primark or Next or even at the latest sale at Debenhams. And I truly envy women who can dress up well at the least of cost. While I do like some of the stuff that I see in these stores, I am so worried sick that I would go to a meeting and find someone else wearing the very same stuff. So I stick to my tried and tested shops like Banana Republic and Hobbs. Oh by the way, I like stuff at Marks & Spenser as well. DH says that I have a granny sense of dressing while I say that I love the conservative classical sense of dressing.

Now I home-based and dressing up does not worry me much as most of the time I work in my pyjamas. But all this will change when I start my new assignment and be office-based from first September onwards.

So last week, DH and I went on our quarterly shopping trip. DH was lucky enough to get all the stuff he wanted right at the beginning, while the choosy finicky me did not get anything all. DH knows pretty well that if we return home without buying anything for me then all hell would break lose. So before starting our next leg of shopping tour we decided to take a break for coffee and snacks at a nearby restaurant. We sat down and half way through my yummy ham and cheese pannini I spotted TK Maxx right next door. I have heard so much about this place where you can get branded stuff at a bargain, but have never been to any of their shops.

For that matter I have been to very few shops here in the UK. After Dubai and all their huge shopping malls, shops in the UK are like small tea stalls, a fact that I have not yet reconciled to. Anyway TK Maxx at Ealing looks like a fish market, much the types of Primark. Clothes were stacked on the racks with no space to take a look at the individual pieces. The changing rooms are full and the queue too long. Clothes all over the floor, hmmm a pity state I must say. But despite all these, I kept a sharp eye on things that I might find. Needless to say that after an hour of ramming through racks and racks of clothes I managed to find myself three tops. The best part of this bargain is that they are not your usual run-of-the-mill tops, but quite unique designs and if I were to wear these to the office, people ARE going to notice me.

DH and I returned home happy bunnies..