outfit of the day(bird): a glimpse into my brain

jeggings ~ Marshalls
shoes ~ Target
shirt, necklace ~ Kohls
bracelets ~ garage sale
sunglasses ~ ?

i'm going to give you a small glimpse into my crazy brain..my crazy, crazy, rationalizing brain.

chris and i began this morning tradition a few weeks ago where he drives me to work and we stop to get a coffee. i love this tradition ~ we get to spend a little alone time together, we get to have a great cup of coffee, i get to see my kids off to school, and i don't have to take the bus every morning. the only problem is that even though i only order a regular coffee (which is still over $2), chris gets some fancy hot press with white chocolate every time; so in total, every morning, we are spending at least $7 on just coffee. that doesn't seem like a lot, but over the course of a month, that can get expensive. plus, keep in mind that i am the person who thinks $5 is a lot of money to spend on any item of clothing (thrift shopping will get you in that mindset), so $7 for coffee seems quite ridiculous to me.

anyways, we decided that if we were going to buy good coffee every morning, we should just bite the bullet and get a really good coffee maker. when you think about it, for a month's worth of coffee shop coffee, we could buy a nice coffee maker. so on sunday, i packed the kids up and we went to kohls to look for a coffee maker. i found the one i wanted, and it was on sale for $130. great deal, no? and then as i was walking around, i saw a bissell easy sweep that i wanted on clearance, so i grabbed that as well. then i started thinking to myself, "self, why not open a kohls charge card and save 20% on all of these items?" so i decided right then and there that i would open a charge card. 

as soon as i decided that, i also decided that i should walk around the store just to take a peek at what kinds of cute clothes and jewelry i could find (i literally left the line we were waiting in to pay). because if i'm opening a card and i am getting 20% off everything, i might as well buy a few more things. i mean, i was prepared to spend $130 on this coffee maker, and since that will only be $104 after the discount, i really have $26 free money to spend. you see how i did that? i talked myself into thinking it was ok to buy more clothes. 

so i headed to the clearance section, found two shirts and a cute new necklace ($8, $6, and $7, respectively) (see shirt and necklace above), which after their discount, would only be $17...really i'm still ahead. so i bought them, guilt free. because if you're going to save 20%, it's better to save 20% on more, rather than less, right?

all in all, i got the coffee maker, the easy sweep, the shirts and necklace all for $130.42...which is $.42 more than i was going to buy the coffee maker for. in my head, everything else i bought besides the coffee maker was free....crazy right? but i'm willing to bet that i am not the only one who thinks this way. am i right? i'd love to hear your rationalizations for buying new things!

xo,
megan bird

ps. as i'm writing this, i am thinking to myself that since i was fully prepared to spend at least $200 on a coffee maker, that means i still have $70 to spend...right?