I can’t believe it’s been a whole month and I haven’t posted anything about shoes!!! Not that I have not been thinking about shoes – some days it’s all I think about… don’t judge me!
So it is my birthday month, after all; and just because I don’t really get enthused about the actual day, anymore, I look at it as the time of year when I purchase an extraordinary pair of shoes – shoes that I would not normally purchase any other time. The first time I decided to do this, I ended up with the very first PINK purchase I had ever made for myself. I don’t like pink. Not for me. Too girly, and I avoid all things glittery-girly-pink! But as I opened up the package that landed on my doorstep a few days before my birthday, the excitement bubbled over as I had to shade my eyes from the mere brightness of it all. I had never owned anything this. bright. before. !!!
So this year, as I contemplated what out-of-the-norm purchase I would make to top that hot pinkness from a couple years before, I thought back on the image that I saw one day while at work planning our homecoming office activities. Western was the theme of the year and we were wondering what in the world we would do to join in the festivities. My coworker and I wandered onto a website full of western wear and there they were…
…in all their purple glory! Purple cowboy boots. Yes, you read right – and I have never owned cowboy boots in my life, much less purple ones. And it was at that time that I became obsessed about these boots. Well believe it or not (seriously), I am not an impulse buyer. I actually put a lot of thought into anything before I buy it. It annoys my mom and sis because many times I will pick up something in the store and walk around with it forever before putting it back on the shelf with the decision made that I really don’t need or want the item. So for a year I contemplated the reasons I needed purple cowboy boots… the reasonable explanation behind such a purchase… whether or not I would even wear them! Purple. Cowboy. Boots.
I am of the opinion that if I see something and do not get it, that if I put something back on the shelf and leave the store, and my mind is still contemplating, still wanting this thing days later, that I should have purchased it. There have been times when I’ve even returned to a store to find something that I left and made the purchase simply because I have been thinking about it a week or so later. There is a sense of immediate loss when the item is gone - as if I've lost some part of my soul. This feeling is usually most regrettable over shoes that I have left...
So a year later, I’m still thinking about these purple cowboy boots – still wanting to own them. And it just so happens to be February. I go back to the website – the name ‘sheplers’ etched in my brain as I have thought about these boots for so long… have visited this site over and over again trying to justify a purchase like this. I see that the boots are on sale – TWENTY DOLLARS LESS than I would have paid any other time. Duh! It’s so obvious that it’s meant to be and I click the ‘add to basket’ button that brings me one step closer to receiving my own pair of purple cowboy boots. A few bits of information and card information later, and the boots are promised to be on my front porch in 5 to 10 business days.
So here I am typing this post in my brand spanking new pair of purple cowboy boots. No regrets, no second thoughts, nothing but a new pair of boots to add to my collection.
I have no idea which shoes will stay on my mind this coming year and which pair I will decide to purchase for next year’s birthday, but I do know that this was the perfect birthday gift from me, to me…
thanks, me! (western-wear style…)
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