Raise your hand if you’ve never made a wrong purchase, who has never bought a dress thinking it’d perfectly match a pair of shoes you’d previously bought just to realize it looked horrible? no-one really?
Ages spent buying clothes, shoes, accessories never worn had me acquiring a certain experience as far as ‘smart shopping‘ goes and in the last few months I can say I finally came up with the right method.
Thinking about all the times I bought a garment, that after having been worn once or twice was put back into my closet makes me cringe. So, at the end of last year I went ahead and adopted some systems.

First of all we need to separate ‘necessary shopping‘ and ‘therapeutic shopping‘.

‘Necessary shopping‘ is that kinda shopping you do when you desperately need to purchase something because you no longer have anything to wear in your closet, or when you have a big event coming up and need to have something brand new. On the other hand, ‘therapeutic shopping‘ is what you do when you’re sad and you need to shop to cheer yourself up.

When you’re doing ‘necessary shopping’ always bring with you that pair of shoes or the garment you wanna match to your new purchases, it’s gonna help with your choice. Don’t get yourself down if you don’t find what you’re looking for after visiting hundreds of stores. Rather than buying randomly, get back home and try again a few days later, persistence will reward you!

When you’re doing ‘therapeutic shopping’ instead, try not to buy clothes or shoes which are too expensive, limit yourself to a few accessories. When we’re down, shopping is our worst enemay, we’re not into the right mood to accomplish our shopping tourer, a necklace or sexy lingerie are more than enough.

Finally when you’re shopping always remember the ‘CSHB‘ rule : comfy CLOTHES, SNEAKERS, tidy HAIR, huge BAGS. Four key rules to cope with one of the most pleasant and stressful day for a woman.

Qualche mese ho pubblicato una piccola e divertente guida su come fare shopping il primo giorno dei saldi, in questi giorni ho pensato di scriverne un’altra su come fare shopping senza stress e senza errori, spero vi piaccia!

Innanzitutto dobbiamo fare una distinzione fra “shopping necessario” e “shopping terapeutico“.

Quando fate “shopping necessario” portate sempre con voi il paio di scarpe o il capo che avete intenzione di abbinare ai nuovi acquisti, vi aiuterà nella scelta. Non vi demoralizzate se dopo aver girato 100 negozi non avete ancora trovato nulla, piuttosto che comprare alla cieca tornate a casa e riprovate qualche giorno dopo, la perseveranza premia! Quando invece fate “shopping terapeutico” cercate di non comprare capi e scarpe troppo costose, limitatevi a qualche accessorio. Quando siamo giù di morale lo shopping è il nostro peggior nemico, non siamo nel giusto stato d’animo per affrontare al meglio un tour di compere, una collana o un completino intimo sexy sono più che sufficienti.

Infine quando fate compere ricordatevi sempre del “VSCB” : VESTITI comodi, SCARPE da ginnastica, CAPELLI in ordine, BORSA capiente. Quattro regole fondamentali per affrontare al meglio una delle giornate più belle e stressanti per una donna.

Translation: Anna Clara Caimi