Duh. My settling/upgrade conundrum is staring me right in the face.

As I've mentioned on another thread, I am planning on buying this satin blazer by Nicole Richie once my budget allows. I fell for it the minute I saw it in a magazine several weeks back. Meanwhile, my white crop sateen blazer has been hanging in the closet mocking me lol.
Not until this very morning did the lightbulb turn on. I *settled* for the white JC Penney blazer because it was a good price and it was all I could find at the time.
The Nicole Richie blazer isn't white, it's a blushy taupe (super yay!) but it is the 'light colored dressy blazer' I had on my list all along. It just wasn't around until mid September.
All these weeks I've been obsessing over it, it didn't dawn on me that *it* was the thing I was looking for when I settled for the white one. I only just now put 2 and 2 together. DUH.
So I will be returning my Penney's blazer this month and upgrading to the Nicole Richie that I should have just waited to appear in the first place.
What is that catch phrase . . right, PPP!

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13 years ago

lynne

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Good for you! I think I can see that lightbulb from here. Don't you feel smarter after that realization?

catgirl

Mo (she said in a kind and gentle voice), do I remember some of us suggesting you hold out for something more "right" than the white jacket, and you were worried it was only because it was from Penney's? I'm so much more on board with the new jacket for you, and I wouldn't care if it was from K-mart!

This is why I'm agonizing over the Burberry - not the price itself, but the comments that have me wondering if it's wrong for me at any price.

Sylvie

The blush jacket is SO much more fab than the white jacket, they're not even in the same league. I too am guilty of wanting to rush to fill my wardrobe holes sometimes but we all need to be PPP.

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I do recall, Una! And the struggles that go on in our heads are so goofy sometimes.
Some of us are slow learners when it comes to changing the bargain hunter mentality. At $17 the thinking goes "oh, this will do. It's not perfect, it needs a button put on, and might be a tad wrong sleeve length, and, and and - but it's ONLY $17."
And you know if it were even $35 I would likely have returned it right then. But somehow that under $20 mindset lets way too much slide by. I'm workin' on it! I am.

oh, I'm the same way - it's why I don't thrift as much now. AND I have the opposite and worse problem: "This was so expensive, it MUST be perfect!".

rae

Yay good plan! I am happy that you are able to still return the JP jacket. Fingers crossed that the blush fits like a dream! I am impatient by nature so I know exactly how this goes.

Suz

You are just racking up the important realizations this year. Amazing.

I am SO prone to this bargain thing, too. Along with the fear that if I hold out, I'll simply never find anything and I won't have anything to wear! Waaaaahhhhhhh!!!

I think in a way it was justified last year. I really didn't have anything to wear! But now I'm in a position where I can probably live without yet another jacket (or whatever) and so I don't HAVE to settle. PPP PPP PPP PPP....

But bargain hunting is tough to break.

bj1111

*click* look for the lightbulb over your head.

at least you still have the opportunity to return the penney's jacket and you have more pennies to spend on your trophy blush blazer.

Ariadne

Glad you found the perfect jacket! It's a beauty for sure and I'll look forward to pics. It really is hard to wait for that perfect item, isn't it? But it's so worth it.

What does PPP stand for? I assume "patience" is in there somewhere.

unfrumped

Way to go, mo!

I just love more stories of how to be PPP--I am a slow learner, too.

I think it takes a vision and a belief that really great style is attainable for ourselves. Not a hallucination, but a really crystal-clear vision of what we think we ought to look like in a certain top, pants, outfit or whatever and a belief that we can look fab in the right clothes. I don't by any means have that nailed down, but I'm getting better.

I had to stop thinking of "I should have a brown jacket to go with my print skirt" and think, "if I find a brown or tan jacket or topper that highlights my ___ (insert best feature or style goal) and really makes me look wow so I can't wait to put it on and it goes with skirts a and b and pants c, then I will buy it. "

Passed up a brown linen safari-type cropped jacket this week that was so ALMOST what I needed but just...not. It was wearable, it fit almost right, it seemed to have the right length, pockets, my style type---could this be the one? --but in the mirror it just did not go wow. In the same vein of what suz said, I had to have a conversation with myself that this would not be the only item I would ever find. I could see myself wearing it but not just tickled pink every time I did, and I could see that I would still be on the hunt for something "better".

Caro in Oz

Well done...I love a happy ending.

Transcona Shannon

This is a fantastic realization for you Mo! I'm so glad it's not too late for you to make the switch and get your dream blazer. At least you put the 2 and 2 together - sometimes my math doesn't work AT ALL!!!

DeclawedJaguar

Ariadne, PPP stands for "patient, picky, and persistent."

Mo, great realization. It's so hard to stay away from impulse this-will-do-for-now purchases, isn't it? I tell myself that if I don't need to wear that item tomorrow, I can surely wait until something perfect comes along.

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