The first year I arrived here, a Chinese student told me that pre-Thanksgiving sales were the biggest in the United States. I went to the pre-Thanksgiving the second year and did not find anything special for me to buy. Instead, I went to buy a lot of foods in Sam's Club. The third Thanksgiving sale, as usual, did not make me spend any money either. I have been waiting very long to have a shopping spree until this January.
The other intern here told me that he believes the January sale is the biggest sale in the States and he was waiting to buy some clothes for himself. This made me think that Chinese is not the smartest in the world, because what he said is quite correct as far as I have compared and he is from Turkey.
Well, let me talk something about my shopping spree on January 15, 2006. It is the last day of the sales week. I went to Dillards and found lots of brand clothes were put in the hallway right after I bought some clothes in Anne Taylor and Bananna Republic, which are the two brands I like and fits me well. Oh, how regret I was. Why didn't I find this place before I've bought three clothes?!
Shopping spree means that you buy and buy and do not stop buying just because you have bought some. This is real. This happened. I bought another, probably 10 pieces of clothes after I have spent quite some money. I bought until the last moment the store was closing for the day. I regreted I should not have spent a lot of time at home cleaning. "If I came earlier, I would be able to buy more stuff," I said to myself.
What a day, what a happy day and exhausting day. This is the real shopping spree in my whole life. Even back in China, I seldom buy stuff in this way. Maybe I never met such a big sale, maybe I went shopping more often than I did here, maybe I never found so many good clothes that I like and fit me very well. Anyway, this is the shopping spree I had and I cannot hold the jubilant experience in my mind so I write this article to share with you.
