Are you buying into Black Friday?
I definitley am.
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Picture this, it’s Friday the 29th at around 9 am, I’ve just woke up in my snowman pjs, hair isn’t brushed yet, and I still have sleep in my eyes.
I reach for my phone, which has been tucked under my pillow all night from when I feel asleep watching TikTok. The screen shines against my face and lights my eyes, it’s too much,I need to turn the brightness down. That’s when I see it, the endless drape of notifications informing me that the Black Friday sales have begun- informing my bank account more like.
And it got me thinking…
Black Friday really is the biggest girl math of the year. I bought four coats (all the same colour by the way) from Pretty Little Thing, and my excuse? I have been meaning to buy a trench coat, and the sale price along with the three others equated to one at full price.
“Basically, I got three coats for free.”
For the people that understand this, you are definitely my type of person.
The dreaded emails, post, text message and any other way sales communicate with you, builds up for a full year. It’s the time to get Christmas shopping ticked off your to do list, and maybe even birthday presents for next year, if you are that organised. Either way, these companies know exactly how to entice you just enough, so that you end up adding more and more to your basket.
There is no way of rejecting what they are offering us. 20% leads to 40%, and 40% leads to 70%, and two double taps later, and hundreds of pounds has now disappeared from your bank account.
Then if it doesn’t get any worse, all of a sudden there’s a thing called Cyber-Monday? When did that become a thing? But whatever it is, you best believe I am the first person that has mindlessly browsed across every website advertising it.
This year, I decided to go at the sales a little bit different. I selflessly, walked out of Meadowhall shopping centre with both arms full of bags, and not a single thing in them was for me. Don’t get me wrong, I had to walk around Zara with my eyes shut, but I did it.
Whilst I did this from a financial point of view (broke uni student and everything), I also did it in order to feel more accomplished. It is now the 4th of December, and all my Christmas shopping is done!
Maybe I will treat myself with a new pair of kitten heels as a reward before the sales are over…
I think within this, I’m looking for a slight bit of reassurance from all you lovely readers. Assurance that I am not alone in the chaos of the sales, assurance that you have all bought just as much as I have, and assurance that it is all, really, girl math. Right?
-Ruby x
Written by Ruby Waters
Edited by Isabel Butler