Bargain

We're going to a wedding tonight and if the weather had been fine, all would have been well.  Alas, however, the weather is cold and rainy which has meant a change of outfit for the Ladybug.  The change of outfit is all well and good except for shoes.  Ladybug has four pairs of shoes: sandals, runner, slippers and thongs.  Read for that no appropriate footwear for an evening wedding in the rain.

We hit the Plaza this morning in search of shoes.  ladybug is in the unhappy place of not-quite-transitioning between a girls size 4 and a ladies size 5.  Girls' shoes in size 4 are really, really difficult to find.  Payless was a blowout as was Mathers and Target.  They had a perfect pair at Spendless Shoes, but they were just a little too snug.  We tried Williams shoes as a last ditch effort before Big W.  Williams had a pair of perfect shoes, even down to the little silver sparklies on the buckles.  The catch?  They were $39.99.  Ouch.  Oh, well needs must when the devil drives and all that.  I decided to suck it up and just get them.

But...

Williams had a promotion going for holders of a Fusion card, their loyalty card.  Spend $50 and get $25 off.  I added some shoe laces and some shoe polish to the shoes, bumped it up to $53 something and they took $25 off.  Shoes, laces and polish for $28.  SCORE!

It's not often that the shoppers come out with the best of it, but today I did.