As I’ve mentioned before, I don’t see myself as the luckiest of shoppers when it comes to sales, but then I suppose that’s because I compare my experiences with those jammy types who always seem to get their hands on the most incredible bargains without even breaking into a sweat! I think my problem sometimes is that I sometimes find it difficult to identify real bargains in a sale situation. So, I go into a shop in non-sale season and I can easily pick out my favourite items (unfortunately I usually can’t afford them!), but once a sale starts everything just looks so different. Sometimes the items I’ve had my eye on for weeks don’t look half as tempting when they’re crammed on to a clothes rail which is practically groaning under the strain and is full of an assortment of styles and colours of garments that are really doing nothing to complement each other! Then I see things I haven’t seen before and I’m sucked in by the fact that something that was once £18 is £3. Before I know it I have a few garments draped over my arm and I’m heading for the till. This is the point when I could really do with someone sensible, practical and frugal by my side saying ‘Do you really need it?’ I must admit, I’m getting better at asking myself the question and putting things back, taking a deep breath, walking out of the shop and not looking back, but I still seem to come home with countless t-shirts and jumpers I’ll never wear, simply because they were cheap. And don’t get me started on jackets! Admittedly, most of them are lovely, but there really are only so many jackets a girl can wear!