September 16, 2025 • 25 mins
We've all been there - that midnight scroll that ends with a cart full of regret, or falling for a "bargain" that sits unworn with tags still on. This week, Tamara Holland and Lucinda Pikkat are taking over the pod while Leigh's away, diving deep into our biggest shopping mistakes and how to actually fix them.
They're unpacking the psychology behind "consolation prize" shopping - you know, when you can't afford the designer piece you really want, so you end up buying cheaper versions that never quite hit the mark. Spoiler alert: you usually end up spending more money and feeling less satisfied! Plus, they're tackling the dangerous world of late-night shopping (we see you, 3am feeds and doom scrolling), buying fantasy pieces for lives we don't actually lead, and the trap of shopping for our "dream bodies" instead of the ones we have right now.
EVERYTHING MENTIONED:
Lucinda's Budget: Big W Print Scarf $9.00
Tam's Budget: Big W Women's Cropped Barrel Jeans - Snow White $30.00
Lucinda's Boujie: Deering The Good Day Jean $290.00
Tam's Boujie: Alias Mae Charlize $189.95
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
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that this podcast is recorded on.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
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Speaker 3 (00:28):
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Speaker 4 (00:32):
Hello, and welcome to Nothing to Wear, the podcast that
solves fashion problems and levels up your wardrobe. Long time
listeners of the podcast might remember me. I'm Tamara Holland.
I'm the contributing fashion editor here at Muma Mia, and
today I'm joined by the fabulous and so stylish listen
to Picket.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Hello, my friend, Hello Tam. It is so lovely being back.
Thank you, Tam.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Our lovely host Lee Campbell is actually away for the
next couple of episodes, so Tam and I are taking
over the pod. And today we thought we'd discussed our
biggest shopping mistakes and how we can cure them. We've
all made them, we still make them to this day.
So we've actually come to the pod with three different
mistakes and how we can fix them.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
So how about we start with your one and kick
us off with your number one?
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Okay, let's do it.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
So the first one I'm going to talk about, Lucinda
is something I actually wrote an article about this for
Mamma Mia the other week. I was very passionate about it.
It's something I'm calling buying the Consolation Prize. What I
kind of want to flesh out the scenario for you
a bit because it's a little bit hard to describe,
but I think it's something we've all done.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Right.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
So picture this. You have an item in your head.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
You've maybe seen it on Instagram, or you know, you've
seen it on an influencer you love, or maybe it's
just a designer bag or something like that. Design a bag,
a shoe, something that feels aspirational to you and potentially
out of reach financially. So rather than buying that item
like you're fixated on it and on a subconscious level,
you kind of end up buying like cheaper versions of it,
(01:56):
less good quality versions of that item to sort of
echo or get the look. But you're actually potentially better
off in the long run if you think about something
like cost per wear on that item, you might have
been better off buying me original in the film first place,
rather than spending money on you know, a subpar duplicate.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
I have you done this?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
I do this a lot, and it is those big
ticket items that when you see at the price, you
sort of gork at it. So, for example, a trench
or jeans, I do it with denim, Like instead of
just buying the good pair of jeans, I might buy
like a pair from cotton On, which, yeah, they get
you through maybe a season, but.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
They're not going to have that longevity totally. And the
same with trenches.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
I would always love like the Camilla and Mark, you know,
eight hundred and nine hundred.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
It can even get that's such a good example.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Yeah, but I just can't buy it, and I end
up getting something that's you know, maybe two hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Yeah, yeah, cool. It just doesn't have that quality factor.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Does it exactly? And you can't keep it for a
long time. And when I shared this, I actually did
a reel about it on Instagram as well. I said,
stop buying or don't buy the consolation prize, And so
many women commented to say that they've done this too,
where they really identified with it, and they said ultimately
they usually end up coming back to the original item,
you know, spending the money on the jupe, and then
(03:08):
in the end they end up spending that money on
the piece that was more expensive in the first place,
So you're actually out of pocket even more money by
the time you've completed that journey and realized that you
were right in the first place.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
So would you suggest just saving up, so deciding what
it is that you want, and then just saving and
getting the actual piece.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
I think there's two scenarios here. If it's within your means,
potentially do the budget, see how much you need to save,
See if you can make a few other sacrifices potentially
in your wardrobe or elsewhere in your like lifestyle. Spend
potentially for the month, or you know, if it's a
designer handbag, it might be six months that you're planning
to buy this item right or longer. But if you
can do the maths and it's within budget with that
(03:46):
in mind, absolutely wait for the item that you want.
But if you can't and it's not within your means,
I think that's just the point we have to recognize.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
You don't need a duplicate.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
You don't necessarily and of course, like if you find
a great jupe and you love it, by all means,
get it. Yeah, just know that you're not going to
have the payoff that you would with the original.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Wye and you won't feel proud wearing it. I los
so true piece and someone asked, where is it from you?
This is it. It's Camilla mark and you look.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Out of it.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
You don't really have that same effect. So yeah, I
get exactly what you mean.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
So saving up if you can, no consolation prize.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
No consolation prizees. That's it, my friend.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
All right, let's jump into yours. What's your shopping mistake?
Speaker 2 (04:25):
My number one is and I'm still here. I actually
did it last night. It's late night shopping. So I
was up with my one year old. I was gonna
call her a newborn. She's not anymore, but she was
just ah.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
But I was just not well at.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
The moment, and I was feeding her and to stay
awake there, I was scrolling online shopping and the irony.
I knew we were talking about it today that I
was doing it myself.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
So it's this late night shopping.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
It started for me when I was feeding my newborns
and to stay awake the three am feeds, you know,
the four am, five am, I'm up scrolling and buying online.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
But that's what you do to get through it. I've
been here too, I've got a two year old. But
at the start, I remember like I bought things I
don't even have like the package arrived than the next week,
and I don't even have any memory of ordering it
because you're in the sleep deprived.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
State and you have to stay away. Yeah, and it
might be bones.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
It could be just you're at home, you're exhausted from work,
and you're doom scrolling and shopping and you're just looking
for that dopamine hit.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Yeah, it's not like a healthy shopping experience.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
And like you said, you either end up with something
that's really out of your style. I remember buying something
and sending it to a friend and she goes, what.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Are you on?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
And it was like this Brat Girls summer miniskirt four
years ago, when.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Brat Girls one wasn't even a thing. So it's that.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
But also it's out of budget as well, So it
might be you just think, oh whatever, you're not thinking rationally.
But also what I've done in the past is bought
like the wrong order, so the wrong size, or I
bought multiple of something because I'm just not thinking you
put in.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
The wrong address.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Yeah, So trying to really get over that late night
shopping and I think we're all victim to it. But
what I'd say to get out of that is just
be aware of it and sleep on it.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
I know it's easier.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Said than done, but it's really not going anywhere. And
don't fall for the marketing of you know, it's selling
out fast or you know, getting quick, or even the
pre orders. Just wait and hold until the next morning,
because sometimes I find that, Yeah, like people are saying
about the style, it's not my style, and I wake
up in.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
The morning fresh eyes on it.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
You could even like something I've done in the past
has taken a screenshot and then return to that the
next day. So I don't forget, Like I'm I can
see the item. I'm like, I can look at it
with fresh eyes, and I can consider it in.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
The light of day.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
If it's something that I actually, you know, is fl
filling a gap in my wardrobe, or it is something
that I really have been corveting or feeling like I need,
or it was just like a desperate middle of the night.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Hey, that'll do.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
That's a really good tip.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Term I did that as well, just screenshot everything, put
it in an album called want to Buy, and that's
what I end up scrolling out that.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
I have it on Instagram as like it just says
shopping nice. And I just returned to it sometimes and
like to look at the things and sometimes that's enough. Yeah,
looking at the item rather than having the gratification of
buying it.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Yeah, so late night shopping is my number one mistake. Okay,
I'm still trying to I'm guilty as well. My friend,
we're in it together.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
What's your number two, tam.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
So this is a trap I've definitely fallen into many times.
It's buying what I call like fantasy pieces. What I
mean by that is like, and I think you and
I are in the same boat, Like when you really
love fashion or you're just like a sucker for a
beautiful cut or a beautiful piece. You kind of want
to collect it just to own it, but you're not
necessarily considering like the end use of that piece. You're
(07:35):
just acquiring something. And like, we're not celebrity. I mean
maybe you're a minor celebrity on Instagram bringing up the
rear a little bit, a few thousand followers, but Look,
we're not celebrities. We don't have archives and other rooms,
you know, with specific humunity controlled air conditioning on our clothes.
We're not all like Sarah Jessica Parker with you know,
with an archive of clothes. But like sometimes I think
(07:57):
of it that way and I'm like, oh, I just
want to have it, but I'm not thinking about the
lifestyle that I actually lead. And I think this is
a big like I think you and I can relate
on this because we're both like city girls who've gone
like regional regional girlies. Now I live in the South Coast.
You live, you know, in the Southern Highlands, so the
lifestyle is very different to like I used to work
(08:18):
in the city and I used to need blazers and
heels and all these pieces that you know were for
my corporate life here and I should say in Sydney
where we're recording this podcast, but you know, back home,
I live by the beach, I've got a two year old,
I've got a dog. I take for walks every day.
I work from home. Like the reality is I was shopping.
I found myself in this trap of like shopping for
(08:39):
a fantasy life that I don't lead, and I think
a lot of things fall into this category. You know,
you might find yourself buying like elevated pieces, or if
you love shoes, And it doesn't mean that you can't
buy beautiful shoes and wait for an occasion to wear them,
but you might be better off using that budget that
you have for those shoes towards something more practical. I
(08:59):
feel like this is like a really boring tip, but
it's just like it's been an awakening for me personally
because I don't wear those clothes. I don't wear blazers,
buy the beach.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
You're still attracted to that like glitz and shiny product
that you want.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
I'm the same. There's these bags that I always want
to like, I'm not wearing these bags around town.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Yeah already the bags that I have I don't wear
in the country.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
It's right peculiar to be said, it.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Is, wouldn't So Yeah, it's almost like you've got to
remind yourself, hang on a minute, I don't need this.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
I also think I try and trick myself. Oh maybe
I'll keep it for my daughters. They'll love it.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
It's like, oh, that's a good one. That's a good
excuse I have a daughter too, I could use that.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
So no, I absolutely understand that one. And my second
actually follows on from the fantasy shop. It's the fantasy bod.
So I don't know if you've done this term, but
buying for your dream bobbed or you know, buying the
size eight when you're really a size twelve, or.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Buying something for postpartum, or buying something for.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Summer like I'll wear it one day, yeah, or.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
With the intention of getting to that size for summer,
which is just so dangerous. It just feeds into that
diet culture. I think we need to stop that. I
feel like I do that my friends. I'm not anymore,
but my my friends used to do that as well.
And it's like we just buy these things that sits
here in our closet that we just don't end up wearing.
I've done that with bikinis when I was pregnant. It's
just an absolute waste of money and it's a toxic
(10:22):
way of thinking about clothes.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Absolutely, you need to buy for the body you have
now and the lifestyle you have now, and those two
things can work together.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Like I think for me, it was leaning into.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Clothes that you know, Also perhaps I was buying more
oversized things after I had my baby because I was
comfortable in them.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
I had to be crouching down on the ground all
the time picking her up.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
I had to be lying down, you know, with a baby,
rather than like wearing rigid denim or wearing And I
think for me, accepting that it was okay to buy
a different size to your point, and that's just just
accepting it doesn't matter what the label, what the label
says on the on the tag. I feel like it
sounds really cliche, but it was like a kind of
big moment for me to realize that it doesn't really matter.
(11:03):
Like if I'm comfortable, I feel better in my clothes anyway.
So having the pile of maybe I'll wear them one day,
whether it's for an urban me, that's a fantasy that
doesn't exist anymore, whether it's for the pre baby body
that I no longer have, like that was just wasn't
serving me.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Yeah, So for me, it's just stop buying things. It
has to fit you right now. I like the mindset
shift of your body doesn't need to earn your clothes
like you just buy for you now, you don't need
to earn or try and fit into it in a
few months.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
It's right here, right now, what's going to fit me,
and that's what I'm going to buy.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Can you say that again? Your body doesn't.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Need your body doesn't need to earn your clothes. I
love that, and it's so true.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
There's dresses. I remember it was twenty seventeen.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
I bought this Zimmermann dress and I still it's in
my wardrobe, still doesn't fit me, size extra, extra swall
because I had this idea of wearing it and it
was just it's silly, it's wasteful, and it's just feeding
into that toxic diet culture.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Absolutely so. My advice from personal experience to fix that
mistake of buying for a fantasy you is just to
ask yourself when you're shopping, first and foremost, think of
the end use of the item, like I said, not
like oh it'll look great hanging in my wardrobe, Like
what do I need it for? And then ask yourself,
are you buying it because you wear it, you need
(12:21):
it it fills that gap in your wardrobe, or just.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Because you love it, Because if it's just because you
love it, you might need to let it go, that's right. Yeah,
that's a good problem.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Okay, moving on, I want to talk about buying things
because they're on sale, because I feel like this is
like the most common mistake that I make, that my
friends make, my mum, everyone, we've all been there. So
you just have to remember it's on sale for a reason.
It's marked down for a reason, right, they want to
get that stock out of their warehouse whatever. And I
think this is something we all fall victim to, Like
(12:56):
when you see a further thirty percent off of the
sale edit online and you're like, ooh, even more money
off that piece, But that's actually just like, if you
think about it, the retailer really needing to shift the
item and offering you even more of an incentive. So
you get that urgent and you get that little pang
in your tummy that's like, oh, I need it now,
and am I just buying it because it's on sale?
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Yeah? I do this all the time.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
And it's a brand that maybe it is one of
those higher price brands that you don't often buy from,
so you're excited to own a piece from that brand.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
I did this recently with bear Park. They had a
sale and the thing with sales as well.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
It's either the really really small sizes left or the
bigger sizes, so they never have my size.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
I'm buying the wrong size either.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Yeah I'll get the size you know, fourteen, and I'll
get it tailored and it's just never going to fit right.
Or I've done the opposite where I buy the size
six and still don't wear them because it's just again wasteful.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
You're compromising, You're compromising. Yeah, so I get that the
sales just.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
In general, we all get caught up in that excitement
you're sending it and sharing it with friends or around
the office.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Just take a beat. What do you actually need as well?
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Rather than just filling your wardrobe because it's on sale
and yeah, almost like before you open up the website,
what do I actually need? Because I feel like you
get sucked in and you see all these things and
like maybe you see the blazers. You've got, you know,
four blases already, you don't really need another one, yeah,
but you just but it's.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
There in front of you. This is it?
Speaker 4 (14:20):
So like I think we all still want, you know,
and potentially need to shop things when they're on sale.
So that's a financial reality. For a lot of people,
we wait for sales, right, but potentially instead and this
is something I know I do wait for the sale
events like Black Friday, Cyber Monday, that kind of thing,
because generally the retailers are offering like a generic discount
(14:40):
across the full range, right, thirty percent off everything, not
just thirty percent off the pieces that we want to
mark down that aren't selling, right, because you have to remember,
like you know, the pieces that are on sale are
like no one bought them, so you're like not having
your pick of what you want, You're having your pick
of what the retailer wants.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
They just want to shift it exactly. People probably aren't
necessarily thinking that when they say.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
We're not that discerning, are we? We're just like, oh,
big shiny red number, like I've got to get in there.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
So yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
And I'd say another thing that falls into this category
is buying something because it's cheap on a discounted, say
designer retailer. Let me explain a little bit because I
did this not too long ago. There's a retailer called
Cosette that does like markedown designer handbags and accessories, shoes,
that kind of thing, and I ended up buying myself
(15:31):
a Gucci handbag because it was like, I can't remember
the exact numbers, but I think it was like fifteen
hundred dollars instead of two K, and I was like, oh,
I'm saving five hundred dollars, but I was saving money
on the edit of styles they have on Cosette are
the markedown styles that haven't sold in the boutiques. I
don't know how they get them, what bootleg stuff is
going on there, I don't really need to know. But
(15:53):
I didn't have my pick of going into a Gucci
boutique and choosing meticulously what I'm going to spend my
fifteen hundred dollars on. So I spent fifteen hundred bucks
on a bag that I'm not even sure if I
really loved or wanted, just because I was getting five
and in the life of that item and my life right,
that five hundred dollars would have come out in the wash.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Yes, yeah, that's a really great point. Yeah yeah, So
don't do.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
That, all right? What have you got it?
Speaker 2 (16:20):
My last one here is buying too early for an event.
So I reckon there's two types of people where you're
either Type A and you just want to sort of
tick the box. You bought the dress for the event, done,
you don't have to think about it again, or someone
like I do this for it overly excited.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
I just want to buy the dress.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
I'm excited for the event, but it's months away, and
by the time the event rolls around, you know new
styles are out, it's feeling slightly dated or done, or
you see something else that might be better.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
That's a tragedy. I hate when that happens.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
The problem with this is that you can often change
your mind closer to the day with all the new
styles coming out. So and also again what I was
saying about the marketing before, try not to get suckered
into you know, limited order or pre order now or
like sold out three times getting quick, because that's where
I've fallen short, where I try and think, oh, I've
got to get it now.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Otherwise I'd never be able to get it.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Because a lot of the time, if something is selling,
they will release it again, they'll restop, they'll restop, or
other brands will create something similar. So try not to
get caught up in that frenzy. Hold don't buy too early.
I always say maybe three to four weeks out from
an event is when you should be looking at buying.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Is that your Is that your thinking? Because that's like
feel so down to the wire for me. Really yeah,
but I feel like I need to take that advice
because I've made this mistake and then you've got.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
All the new arrivals, you've got something fresh. There's nothing
worse than when like a fabric's been around for a
while and you turn up to an event and maybe
a couple of people wearing it or they go, oh,
that's sir, Like everyone's familiar with the presure.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Like the police say, movement of a couple of years ago,
so we all had.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
The same set. Bless.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
I loved it.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
I still love it. I don't know shade to please say,
but yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Something fresh that people haven't seen before, so just try
and hold and wait closer to the event.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
So with things being on sale and you buy it
because it's on sale.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
I do this as well.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
I fall victim when I'm shopping on Deepop or Vestia
or any of those secondhand stores.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
When I see something's on sale or.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
It's really cheap because it's secondhand, I buy it when
it's really something I don't need just because it's secondhand,
just because it's ultra cheap on deep hop.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Yeah, you're like keeping something in the cycle of where
it's it feels good, but you're still.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Buying things you don't need. Like what it was The
answer to that, do you need? How do we stop? Well,
okaying about just asking for a friend.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Let's say it's some practical things, but we can take
away from this again the sleep on it, or keeping
things in your basket.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Yeah, so that's good, or sharing it with friends as well.
Do I really need this?
Speaker 3 (18:50):
You got to have really trustworthy friends for that.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Yeah, because I feel like people just like I'm such
an enabler that I'll just tell you to miny too.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
I don't care what it is. I'm like, yeah, girl,
get that too.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
I know.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Do you know something else I used to do when
I was doing the late night feeds and shopping. I
allow myself to buy one piece of so I get
excited all week for that one piece. So you're not
stopping yourself from shopping, but just choose what that one are,
and then you.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
Have to be more focused, like a laser focused because
you've only got one, so you really think about it.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
I like that yeah, and also maybe choosing the category
so I find rather than looking at clothing and blazers
and trenches and whatnot, choosing so active wear or swimwear
where it is just a lower price point so you're
not breaking the bank necessarily, you're just choosing, Okay, I'm
going to buy a sports bra and it's something that
is more affordable than your BEG ticket items and it's.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Really niche too.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
You're not just going a dress because that's so broad, right,
Like it's impossible to narrow that down. So you're going
to give yourself lots of because I think here's another
mistake that you make. You tell yourself, oh, I'm going
to get a dress, and then you've got all of
the internet to shop from, right, and then you just
end up you can end up buying two three dresses
instead of just one because you're like, well, I need
this one and I need that one as well. It's
(20:05):
like you're not being narrow, you're actually giving yourself so
much like and that's too much opportunity.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
And with dresses as well, avoid buying occasion dresses like
so often I have bought that many.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Dresses that are really one off parties it's a one off.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Yeah, and they just sit in my wardrobe and I
stare at them and they just look pretty sitting there.
It's like, choose things that are practical that you can
match and mix up and actually style in different ways.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
But I guess for occasion dressing then you know, like
hire it, borrow from a friend, like, yeah, there's so
many ways that you can still have that new piece
to wear, but it doesn't mean buying brand new. Yeah,
I think we've sold it, We've solved it. Yeah, that's
moving on.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
It's very expensive, how mud, Let's jump into bougie and
budget please, Sinder. Let you start off, Okay, what's your
foujie for the week.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Bougie back to not settling for the consolation prize is
denim and finding a really good piece of denim. I
recently bought the Daring good Day denim.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
I love Good Day. She's doing such a good.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Style and her new denim.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
She's only just released two forty so it's actually not
as expensive as say, and a Goldie Pero jeans, but
they fit really well, one hundred percent cotton. They're just
a nice straight leg fit amazing, and yeah, I'm really happy,
with those, so that'll sort of get me through spring,
summer and beyond because they're just such good quality. But
I just committed to getting a good par of Janes
(21:40):
rather than just settling on something that would stretch out
and that I wouldn't become.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Ye to your point, now that you've spent that money,
you're going to actually invest back into them.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
You're gonna get that wear out of it, right because
you've put that.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Yeah time and look after them and take pride in them.
So the daring world, the good day Jeens.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
These are such beautiful genes. So this is why I
can't talk to you, because I want to reading what
you recommend. I bought all the other end of spectrum.
I feel like I just did the thing that you
said not to do. But I'm still going to recommend
them becare because I stand by it. I stand by it.
So my budget this week is denim as well. But
let me explain. I bought the big W barrel jeans.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Big W like I was.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
I think I was in there and like it back
in like April, shopping for my daughter, buying her some
clothes or books or whatever, and I saw these jeans
and I was like these are really good barrel jeans.
In my opinion, they're thirty dollars. I bought them in blue,
and that was back in April May, I think, and
I've worn them like on repeat since. So like, just
because something's budget doesn't mean it's not good. Warn them
to death. So I was really excited when I saw
(22:41):
that Big W had brought out white pear or sort
of a cream pair in a crop, which is good
for me as a petite person. I love a crop
jane because it sits above my ankor other than drowning.
And still thirty dollars, still thirty dollars. So I wrote
about them from Amamea and yeah, a bunch of women
told me they bought them to and they loved them.
So it's the Big W cropped barrel jean and cream.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
And it is a nice way to experiment with styles
and cuts of jeans, I suppose, yes, so true. Yeah,
playing around with the barrel starting with a Big W jean,
that's a great.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
It's like a gateway.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
Yeah, Like I've since, you know, bought other white jeans
like the ones I'm wearing today because I kind of
dipped a toe into it through a more affordable option,
and now I'm like, Okay, well I'm going to spend
that money on a slightly more elevated pair because I
know now that I like the trend. I'm wearing this
piece regularly, so I'm going to like, I'm going to
take the punt something.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
I love that quality. Check those out. Okay. My budget
is actually from Big w as well.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Oh and it's one of their silk scarves. So I
was in there the other day and I saw the
scarves and with the whole scarf trend and wearing it
as a belt, I thought, you know, they've got some
great colors in there, and I got this red and
white one and it was beautiful.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Nine dollars is cute.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
I actually wore it last time I was in the
Mama Mer office and I did wear it as like
a little belt and it's great just for spring summer.
And yeah, it allows you nine dollars if you want
to play around with that trend. It's a great size
as well, so it's not too small so it sort
of can go around the waist.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
Amazing, because that's the trouble I've been having with the
bandanas and scarves is like, I fine, with bandanas.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
I want to wear them as a belt, but they don't.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Fit around my waist.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Right with a scarf, you've got a little bit more room, yes, yes, So.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
There's heaps of colors in there. I got the red
and white and there's a green and white as well.
So nine dollars, big w good.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
One, all right, my bougie.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
When I say I've been writing about the thong's trend
like flip flops for a year, I have, like, I
have labored over this topic and I think like somehow
subconsciously it's entered my brain that like, I need a
pair of elevated thongs, and now it's all I.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Can think about.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
So I have decided on the thongs that I'm gonna get. Okay,
there's a lot out there, but I am a big
fan of the brand Alias May. I've bought their footwear before.
I've worn their footbed sandals to death, so I really
trust this brand. So when I saw that they were
doing a leather thong. When I say leather thong, it
sounds like I'm saying underwear, but a leather flip flop,
I was like, that's the one. It's called the Charlie's sandal.
(25:07):
It comes in lots of neutral colors, but I'm actually
loving the red patent leather for a little hit.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Of red very.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
The Row coded it's very it's giving the Row absolutely
on a budget. So the shoes one hundred and eighty
nine to ninety five, which isn't like, you know, cheap, cheap,
but I think for a leather shoe, that's pretty good.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
That's good, and I trust the quality, so.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
I'll be wearing this to death. The thanks, friend, that's
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Speaker 4 (00:32):
Hello, and welcome to Nothing to Wear, the podcast that
solves fashion problems and levels up your wardrobe. Long time
listeners of the podcast might remember me. I'm Tamara Holland.
I'm the contributing fashion editor here at Muma Mia, and
today I'm joined by the fabulous and so stylish listen
to Picket.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Hello, my friend, Hello Tam. It is so lovely being back.
Thank you, Tam.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Our lovely host Lee Campbell is actually away for the
next couple of episodes, so Tam and I are taking
over the pod. And today we thought we'd discussed our
biggest shopping mistakes and how we can cure them. We've
all made them, we still make them to this day.
So we've actually come to the pod with three different
mistakes and how we can fix them.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
So how about we start with your one and kick
us off with your number one?
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Okay, let's do it.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
So the first one I'm going to talk about, Lucinda
is something I actually wrote an article about this for
Mamma Mia the other week. I was very passionate about it.
It's something I'm calling buying the Consolation Prize. What I
kind of want to flesh out the scenario for you
a bit because it's a little bit hard to describe,
but I think it's something we've all done.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Right.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
So picture this. You have an item in your head.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
You've maybe seen it on Instagram, or you know, you've
seen it on an influencer you love, or maybe it's
just a designer bag or something like that. Design a bag,
a shoe, something that feels aspirational to you and potentially
out of reach financially. So rather than buying that item
like you're fixated on it and on a subconscious level,
you kind of end up buying like cheaper versions of it,
(01:56):
less good quality versions of that item to sort of
echo or get the look. But you're actually potentially better
off in the long run if you think about something
like cost per wear on that item, you might have
been better off buying me original in the film first place,
rather than spending money on you know, a subpar duplicate.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
I have you done this?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
I do this a lot, and it is those big
ticket items that when you see at the price, you
sort of gork at it. So, for example, a trench
or jeans, I do it with denim, Like instead of
just buying the good pair of jeans, I might buy
like a pair from cotton On, which, yeah, they get
you through maybe a season, but.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
They're not going to have that longevity totally. And the
same with trenches.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
I would always love like the Camilla and Mark, you know,
eight hundred and nine hundred.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
It can even get that's such a good example.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Yeah, but I just can't buy it, and I end
up getting something that's you know, maybe two hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Yeah, yeah, cool. It just doesn't have that quality factor.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Does it exactly? And you can't keep it for a
long time. And when I shared this, I actually did
a reel about it on Instagram as well. I said,
stop buying or don't buy the consolation prize, And so
many women commented to say that they've done this too,
where they really identified with it, and they said ultimately
they usually end up coming back to the original item,
you know, spending the money on the jupe, and then
(03:08):
in the end they end up spending that money on
the piece that was more expensive in the first place,
So you're actually out of pocket even more money by
the time you've completed that journey and realized that you
were right in the first place.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
So would you suggest just saving up, so deciding what
it is that you want, and then just saving and
getting the actual piece.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
I think there's two scenarios here. If it's within your means,
potentially do the budget, see how much you need to save,
See if you can make a few other sacrifices potentially
in your wardrobe or elsewhere in your like lifestyle. Spend
potentially for the month, or you know, if it's a
designer handbag, it might be six months that you're planning
to buy this item right or longer. But if you
can do the maths and it's within budget with that
(03:46):
in mind, absolutely wait for the item that you want.
But if you can't and it's not within your means,
I think that's just the point we have to recognize.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
You don't need a duplicate.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
You don't necessarily and of course, like if you find
a great jupe and you love it, by all means,
get it. Yeah, just know that you're not going to
have the payoff that you would with the original.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Wye and you won't feel proud wearing it. I los
so true piece and someone asked, where is it from you?
This is it. It's Camilla mark and you look.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Out of it.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
You don't really have that same effect. So yeah, I
get exactly what you mean.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
So saving up if you can, no consolation prize.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
No consolation prizees. That's it, my friend.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
All right, let's jump into yours. What's your shopping mistake?
Speaker 2 (04:25):
My number one is and I'm still here. I actually
did it last night. It's late night shopping. So I
was up with my one year old. I was gonna
call her a newborn. She's not anymore, but she was
just ah.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
But I was just not well at.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
The moment, and I was feeding her and to stay
awake there, I was scrolling online shopping and the irony.
I knew we were talking about it today that I
was doing it myself.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
So it's this late night shopping.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
It started for me when I was feeding my newborns
and to stay awake the three am feeds, you know,
the four am, five am, I'm up scrolling and buying online.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
But that's what you do to get through it. I've
been here too, I've got a two year old. But
at the start, I remember like I bought things I
don't even have like the package arrived than the next week,
and I don't even have any memory of ordering it
because you're in the sleep deprived.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
State and you have to stay away. Yeah, and it
might be bones.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
It could be just you're at home, you're exhausted from work,
and you're doom scrolling and shopping and you're just looking
for that dopamine hit.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Yeah, it's not like a healthy shopping experience.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
And like you said, you either end up with something
that's really out of your style. I remember buying something
and sending it to a friend and she goes, what.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Are you on?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
And it was like this Brat Girls summer miniskirt four
years ago, when.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Brat Girls one wasn't even a thing. So it's that.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
But also it's out of budget as well, So it
might be you just think, oh whatever, you're not thinking rationally.
But also what I've done in the past is bought
like the wrong order, so the wrong size, or I
bought multiple of something because I'm just not thinking you
put in.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
The wrong address.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Yeah, So trying to really get over that late night
shopping and I think we're all victim to it. But
what I'd say to get out of that is just
be aware of it and sleep on it.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
I know it's easier.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Said than done, but it's really not going anywhere. And
don't fall for the marketing of you know, it's selling
out fast or you know, getting quick, or even the
pre orders. Just wait and hold until the next morning,
because sometimes I find that, Yeah, like people are saying
about the style, it's not my style, and I wake
up in.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
The morning fresh eyes on it.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
You could even like something I've done in the past
has taken a screenshot and then return to that the
next day. So I don't forget, Like I'm I can
see the item. I'm like, I can look at it
with fresh eyes, and I can consider it in.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
The light of day.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
If it's something that I actually, you know, is fl
filling a gap in my wardrobe, or it is something
that I really have been corveting or feeling like I need,
or it was just like a desperate middle of the night.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Hey, that'll do.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
That's a really good tip.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Term I did that as well, just screenshot everything, put
it in an album called want to Buy, and that's
what I end up scrolling out that.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
I have it on Instagram as like it just says
shopping nice. And I just returned to it sometimes and
like to look at the things and sometimes that's enough. Yeah,
looking at the item rather than having the gratification of
buying it.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Yeah, so late night shopping is my number one mistake. Okay,
I'm still trying to I'm guilty as well. My friend,
we're in it together.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
What's your number two, tam.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
So this is a trap I've definitely fallen into many times.
It's buying what I call like fantasy pieces. What I
mean by that is like, and I think you and
I are in the same boat, Like when you really
love fashion or you're just like a sucker for a
beautiful cut or a beautiful piece. You kind of want
to collect it just to own it, but you're not
necessarily considering like the end use of that piece. You're
(07:35):
just acquiring something. And like, we're not celebrity. I mean
maybe you're a minor celebrity on Instagram bringing up the
rear a little bit, a few thousand followers, but Look,
we're not celebrities. We don't have archives and other rooms,
you know, with specific humunity controlled air conditioning on our clothes.
We're not all like Sarah Jessica Parker with you know,
with an archive of clothes. But like sometimes I think
(07:57):
of it that way and I'm like, oh, I just
want to have it, but I'm not thinking about the
lifestyle that I actually lead. And I think this is
a big like I think you and I can relate
on this because we're both like city girls who've gone
like regional regional girlies. Now I live in the South Coast.
You live, you know, in the Southern Highlands, so the
lifestyle is very different to like I used to work
(08:18):
in the city and I used to need blazers and
heels and all these pieces that you know were for
my corporate life here and I should say in Sydney
where we're recording this podcast, but you know, back home,
I live by the beach, I've got a two year old,
I've got a dog. I take for walks every day.
I work from home. Like the reality is I was shopping.
I found myself in this trap of like shopping for
(08:39):
a fantasy life that I don't lead, and I think
a lot of things fall into this category. You know,
you might find yourself buying like elevated pieces, or if
you love shoes, And it doesn't mean that you can't
buy beautiful shoes and wait for an occasion to wear them,
but you might be better off using that budget that
you have for those shoes towards something more practical. I
(08:59):
feel like this is like a really boring tip, but
it's just like it's been an awakening for me personally
because I don't wear those clothes. I don't wear blazers,
buy the beach.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
You're still attracted to that like glitz and shiny product
that you want.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
I'm the same. There's these bags that I always want
to like, I'm not wearing these bags around town.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Yeah already the bags that I have I don't wear
in the country.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
It's right peculiar to be said, it.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Is, wouldn't So Yeah, it's almost like you've got to
remind yourself, hang on a minute, I don't need this.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
I also think I try and trick myself. Oh maybe
I'll keep it for my daughters. They'll love it.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
It's like, oh, that's a good one. That's a good
excuse I have a daughter too, I could use that.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
So no, I absolutely understand that one. And my second
actually follows on from the fantasy shop. It's the fantasy bod.
So I don't know if you've done this term, but
buying for your dream bobbed or you know, buying the
size eight when you're really a size twelve, or.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Buying something for postpartum, or buying something for.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Summer like I'll wear it one day, yeah, or.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
With the intention of getting to that size for summer,
which is just so dangerous. It just feeds into that
diet culture. I think we need to stop that. I
feel like I do that my friends. I'm not anymore,
but my my friends used to do that as well.
And it's like we just buy these things that sits
here in our closet that we just don't end up wearing.
I've done that with bikinis when I was pregnant. It's
just an absolute waste of money and it's a toxic
(10:22):
way of thinking about clothes.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Absolutely, you need to buy for the body you have
now and the lifestyle you have now, and those two
things can work together.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Like I think for me, it was leaning into.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Clothes that you know, Also perhaps I was buying more
oversized things after I had my baby because I was
comfortable in them.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
I had to be crouching down on the ground all
the time picking her up.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
I had to be lying down, you know, with a baby,
rather than like wearing rigid denim or wearing And I
think for me, accepting that it was okay to buy
a different size to your point, and that's just just
accepting it doesn't matter what the label, what the label
says on the on the tag. I feel like it
sounds really cliche, but it was like a kind of
big moment for me to realize that it doesn't really matter.
(11:03):
Like if I'm comfortable, I feel better in my clothes anyway.
So having the pile of maybe I'll wear them one day,
whether it's for an urban me, that's a fantasy that
doesn't exist anymore, whether it's for the pre baby body
that I no longer have, like that was just wasn't
serving me.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Yeah, So for me, it's just stop buying things. It
has to fit you right now. I like the mindset
shift of your body doesn't need to earn your clothes
like you just buy for you now, you don't need
to earn or try and fit into it in a
few months.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
It's right here, right now, what's going to fit me,
and that's what I'm going to buy.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Can you say that again? Your body doesn't.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Need your body doesn't need to earn your clothes. I
love that, and it's so true.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
There's dresses. I remember it was twenty seventeen.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
I bought this Zimmermann dress and I still it's in
my wardrobe, still doesn't fit me, size extra, extra swall
because I had this idea of wearing it and it
was just it's silly, it's wasteful, and it's just feeding
into that toxic diet culture.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Absolutely so. My advice from personal experience to fix that
mistake of buying for a fantasy you is just to
ask yourself when you're shopping, first and foremost, think of
the end use of the item, like I said, not
like oh it'll look great hanging in my wardrobe, Like
what do I need it for? And then ask yourself,
are you buying it because you wear it, you need
(12:21):
it it fills that gap in your wardrobe, or just.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Because you love it, Because if it's just because you
love it, you might need to let it go, that's right. Yeah,
that's a good problem.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Okay, moving on, I want to talk about buying things
because they're on sale, because I feel like this is
like the most common mistake that I make, that my
friends make, my mum, everyone, we've all been there. So
you just have to remember it's on sale for a reason.
It's marked down for a reason, right, they want to
get that stock out of their warehouse whatever. And I
think this is something we all fall victim to, Like
(12:56):
when you see a further thirty percent off of the
sale edit online and you're like, ooh, even more money
off that piece, But that's actually just like, if you
think about it, the retailer really needing to shift the
item and offering you even more of an incentive. So
you get that urgent and you get that little pang
in your tummy that's like, oh, I need it now,
and am I just buying it because it's on sale?
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Yeah? I do this all the time.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
And it's a brand that maybe it is one of
those higher price brands that you don't often buy from,
so you're excited to own a piece from that brand.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
I did this recently with bear Park. They had a
sale and the thing with sales as well.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
It's either the really really small sizes left or the
bigger sizes, so they never have my size.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
I'm buying the wrong size either.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Yeah I'll get the size you know, fourteen, and I'll
get it tailored and it's just never going to fit right.
Or I've done the opposite where I buy the size
six and still don't wear them because it's just again wasteful.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
You're compromising, You're compromising. Yeah, so I get that the
sales just.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
In general, we all get caught up in that excitement
you're sending it and sharing it with friends or around
the office.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Just take a beat. What do you actually need as well?
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Rather than just filling your wardrobe because it's on sale
and yeah, almost like before you open up the website,
what do I actually need? Because I feel like you
get sucked in and you see all these things and
like maybe you see the blazers. You've got, you know,
four blases already, you don't really need another one, yeah,
but you just but it's.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
There in front of you. This is it?
Speaker 4 (14:20):
So like I think we all still want, you know,
and potentially need to shop things when they're on sale.
So that's a financial reality. For a lot of people,
we wait for sales, right, but potentially instead and this
is something I know I do wait for the sale
events like Black Friday, Cyber Monday, that kind of thing,
because generally the retailers are offering like a generic discount
(14:40):
across the full range, right, thirty percent off everything, not
just thirty percent off the pieces that we want to
mark down that aren't selling, right, because you have to remember,
like you know, the pieces that are on sale are
like no one bought them, so you're like not having
your pick of what you want, You're having your pick
of what the retailer wants.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
They just want to shift it exactly. People probably aren't
necessarily thinking that when they say.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
We're not that discerning, are we? We're just like, oh,
big shiny red number, like I've got to get in there.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
So yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
And I'd say another thing that falls into this category
is buying something because it's cheap on a discounted, say
designer retailer. Let me explain a little bit because I
did this not too long ago. There's a retailer called
Cosette that does like markedown designer handbags and accessories, shoes,
that kind of thing, and I ended up buying myself
(15:31):
a Gucci handbag because it was like, I can't remember
the exact numbers, but I think it was like fifteen
hundred dollars instead of two K, and I was like, oh,
I'm saving five hundred dollars, but I was saving money
on the edit of styles they have on Cosette are
the markedown styles that haven't sold in the boutiques. I
don't know how they get them, what bootleg stuff is
going on there, I don't really need to know. But
(15:53):
I didn't have my pick of going into a Gucci
boutique and choosing meticulously what I'm going to spend my
fifteen hundred dollars on. So I spent fifteen hundred bucks
on a bag that I'm not even sure if I
really loved or wanted, just because I was getting five
and in the life of that item and my life right,
that five hundred dollars would have come out in the wash.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Yes, yeah, that's a really great point. Yeah yeah, So
don't do.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
That, all right? What have you got it?
Speaker 2 (16:20):
My last one here is buying too early for an event.
So I reckon there's two types of people where you're
either Type A and you just want to sort of
tick the box. You bought the dress for the event, done,
you don't have to think about it again, or someone
like I do this for it overly excited.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
I just want to buy the dress.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
I'm excited for the event, but it's months away, and
by the time the event rolls around, you know new
styles are out, it's feeling slightly dated or done, or
you see something else that might be better.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
That's a tragedy. I hate when that happens.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
The problem with this is that you can often change
your mind closer to the day with all the new
styles coming out. So and also again what I was
saying about the marketing before, try not to get suckered
into you know, limited order or pre order now or
like sold out three times getting quick, because that's where
I've fallen short, where I try and think, oh, I've
got to get it now.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Otherwise I'd never be able to get it.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Because a lot of the time, if something is selling,
they will release it again, they'll restop, they'll restop, or
other brands will create something similar. So try not to
get caught up in that frenzy. Hold don't buy too early.
I always say maybe three to four weeks out from
an event is when you should be looking at buying.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Is that your Is that your thinking? Because that's like
feel so down to the wire for me. Really yeah,
but I feel like I need to take that advice
because I've made this mistake and then you've got.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
All the new arrivals, you've got something fresh. There's nothing
worse than when like a fabric's been around for a
while and you turn up to an event and maybe
a couple of people wearing it or they go, oh,
that's sir, Like everyone's familiar with the presure.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Like the police say, movement of a couple of years ago,
so we all had.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
The same set. Bless.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
I loved it.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
I still love it. I don't know shade to please say,
but yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Something fresh that people haven't seen before, so just try
and hold and wait closer to the event.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
So with things being on sale and you buy it
because it's on sale.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
I do this as well.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
I fall victim when I'm shopping on Deepop or Vestia
or any of those secondhand stores.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
When I see something's on sale or.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
It's really cheap because it's secondhand, I buy it when
it's really something I don't need just because it's secondhand,
just because it's ultra cheap on deep hop.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Yeah, you're like keeping something in the cycle of where
it's it feels good, but you're still.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Buying things you don't need. Like what it was The
answer to that, do you need? How do we stop? Well,
okaying about just asking for a friend.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Let's say it's some practical things, but we can take
away from this again the sleep on it, or keeping
things in your basket.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Yeah, so that's good, or sharing it with friends as well.
Do I really need this?
Speaker 3 (18:50):
You got to have really trustworthy friends for that.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Yeah, because I feel like people just like I'm such
an enabler that I'll just tell you to miny too.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
I don't care what it is. I'm like, yeah, girl,
get that too.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
I know.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Do you know something else I used to do when
I was doing the late night feeds and shopping. I
allow myself to buy one piece of so I get
excited all week for that one piece. So you're not
stopping yourself from shopping, but just choose what that one are,
and then you.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
Have to be more focused, like a laser focused because
you've only got one, so you really think about it.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
I like that yeah, and also maybe choosing the category
so I find rather than looking at clothing and blazers
and trenches and whatnot, choosing so active wear or swimwear
where it is just a lower price point so you're
not breaking the bank necessarily, you're just choosing, Okay, I'm
going to buy a sports bra and it's something that
is more affordable than your BEG ticket items and it's.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Really niche too.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
You're not just going a dress because that's so broad, right,
Like it's impossible to narrow that down. So you're going
to give yourself lots of because I think here's another
mistake that you make. You tell yourself, oh, I'm going
to get a dress, and then you've got all of
the internet to shop from, right, and then you just
end up you can end up buying two three dresses
instead of just one because you're like, well, I need
this one and I need that one as well. It's
(20:05):
like you're not being narrow, you're actually giving yourself so
much like and that's too much opportunity.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
And with dresses as well, avoid buying occasion dresses like
so often I have bought that many.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Dresses that are really one off parties it's a one off.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Yeah, and they just sit in my wardrobe and I
stare at them and they just look pretty sitting there.
It's like, choose things that are practical that you can
match and mix up and actually style in different ways.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
But I guess for occasion dressing then you know, like
hire it, borrow from a friend, like, yeah, there's so
many ways that you can still have that new piece
to wear, but it doesn't mean buying brand new. Yeah,
I think we've sold it, We've solved it. Yeah, that's
moving on.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
It's very expensive, how mud, Let's jump into bougie and
budget please, Sinder. Let you start off, Okay, what's your
foujie for the week.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Bougie back to not settling for the consolation prize is
denim and finding a really good piece of denim. I
recently bought the Daring good Day denim.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
I love Good Day. She's doing such a good.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Style and her new denim.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
She's only just released two forty so it's actually not
as expensive as say, and a Goldie Pero jeans, but
they fit really well, one hundred percent cotton. They're just
a nice straight leg fit amazing, and yeah, I'm really happy,
with those, so that'll sort of get me through spring,
summer and beyond because they're just such good quality. But
I just committed to getting a good par of Janes
(21:40):
rather than just settling on something that would stretch out
and that I wouldn't become.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Ye to your point, now that you've spent that money,
you're going to actually invest back into them.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
You're gonna get that wear out of it, right because
you've put that.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Yeah time and look after them and take pride in them.
So the daring world, the good day Jeens.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
These are such beautiful genes. So this is why I
can't talk to you, because I want to reading what
you recommend. I bought all the other end of spectrum.
I feel like I just did the thing that you
said not to do. But I'm still going to recommend
them becare because I stand by it. I stand by it.
So my budget this week is denim as well. But
let me explain. I bought the big W barrel jeans.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Big W like I was.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
I think I was in there and like it back
in like April, shopping for my daughter, buying her some
clothes or books or whatever, and I saw these jeans
and I was like these are really good barrel jeans.
In my opinion, they're thirty dollars. I bought them in blue,
and that was back in April May, I think, and
I've worn them like on repeat since. So like, just
because something's budget doesn't mean it's not good. Warn them
to death. So I was really excited when I saw
(22:41):
that Big W had brought out white pear or sort
of a cream pair in a crop, which is good
for me as a petite person. I love a crop
jane because it sits above my ankor other than drowning.
And still thirty dollars, still thirty dollars. So I wrote
about them from Amamea and yeah, a bunch of women
told me they bought them to and they loved them.
So it's the Big W cropped barrel jean and cream.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
And it is a nice way to experiment with styles
and cuts of jeans, I suppose, yes, so true. Yeah,
playing around with the barrel starting with a Big W jean,
that's a great.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
It's like a gateway.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
Yeah, Like I've since, you know, bought other white jeans
like the ones I'm wearing today because I kind of
dipped a toe into it through a more affordable option,
and now I'm like, Okay, well I'm going to spend
that money on a slightly more elevated pair because I
know now that I like the trend. I'm wearing this
piece regularly, so I'm going to like, I'm going to
take the punt something.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
I love that quality. Check those out. Okay. My budget
is actually from Big w as well.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Oh and it's one of their silk scarves. So I
was in there the other day and I saw the
scarves and with the whole scarf trend and wearing it
as a belt, I thought, you know, they've got some
great colors in there, and I got this red and
white one and it was beautiful.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Nine dollars is cute.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
I actually wore it last time I was in the
Mama Mer office and I did wear it as like
a little belt and it's great just for spring summer.
And yeah, it allows you nine dollars if you want
to play around with that trend. It's a great size
as well, so it's not too small so it sort
of can go around the waist.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
Amazing, because that's the trouble I've been having with the
bandanas and scarves is like, I fine, with bandanas.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
I want to wear them as a belt, but they don't.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Fit around my waist.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Right with a scarf, you've got a little bit more room, yes, yes, So.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
There's heaps of colors in there. I got the red
and white and there's a green and white as well.
So nine dollars, big w good.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
One, all right, my bougie.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
When I say I've been writing about the thong's trend
like flip flops for a year, I have, like, I
have labored over this topic and I think like somehow
subconsciously it's entered my brain that like, I need a
pair of elevated thongs, and now it's all I.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Can think about.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
So I have decided on the thongs that I'm gonna get. Okay,
there's a lot out there, but I am a big
fan of the brand Alias May. I've bought their footwear before.
I've worn their footbed sandals to death, so I really
trust this brand. So when I saw that they were
doing a leather thong. When I say leather thong, it
sounds like I'm saying underwear, but a leather flip flop,
I was like, that's the one. It's called the Charlie's sandal.
(25:07):
It comes in lots of neutral colors, but I'm actually
loving the red patent leather for a little hit.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Of red very.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
The Row coded it's very it's giving the Row absolutely
on a budget. So the shoes one hundred and eighty
nine to ninety five, which isn't like, you know, cheap, cheap,
but I think for a leather shoe, that's pretty good.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
That's good, and I trust the quality, so.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
I'll be wearing this to death. The thanks, friend, that's
all we have time for today. Thank you for listening
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