We cannot begin to explain how much we love auctions. We remember being very, very small and attending auctions with our parents; we would sit on our hands for fear of the auctioneer thinking we were bidding on a 18th century farmhouse sink. We did not appreciate the bargains at the auctions; we much preferred the red velvet cake that was $1.00 a slice.
Now that we are older, and quite frugal, we love auctions. Our love was rekindled when a woman we worked with came to work with a lovely vintage Gucci tote she’d picked up for $5.00 at an estate auction. We love auctions most for things that we would never, ever dream of paying full price for. Sunglasses, cell phones, handbags, vintage boots – we have purchased all of these for a song. Of course, one has to be careful of what exactly you bid on; aside from the whole fake vs. real designer nonsense, sites like eBay have made impulsive bidding a rather dangerous (and expensive) reality (hello pink Kate Spade planner we do not need!). But the beauty is that if it doesn’t fit, if you change your mind, snap a few photos and put it back up. Out it goes!
Our current favorite auction find is a vintage burgundy pair of boots – we are eagerly, eagerly awaiting their arrival, but for $33, how can we go wrong?
We would like to know what your favorite/best/most insane auction find has been. We’ll offer a small prize to the reader who submits the most jaw-dropping/envy-inducing item. Just mail us here, and tell us your best find. Include a picture if you can. All submissions are due by end of day Friday, and we’ll announce the winner next week!
We are so, so ready for Fall. We are tired of being hot. And sweaty. Sundresses no longer hold our interest, not even on the sale rack (and we are such suckers for a sale). We have been dreaming of knee-high boots (not chewed by our loving dog), proper shoes, gray sweaters and dark jeans.
Luckily, it is almost an excellent time for Fall shopping. It is not quite boots weather (though we did see a girl in knee-high boots with shorts and a tank top today), but Fall merchandise is starting to infiltrate the stores. We came across long sweaters, wide leg jeans, and shoes that made our heart swell with the idea of apple cider and changing leaves.
Unfortunately for us, the forecast for this week isn’t supposed to drop below 90 degrees. But we can dream (and break in our new shoes)!
Like we said, today’s cheaper. Discount + Cheap Monday jeans = really super very cheap. Not to use that word three times in one sentence. Cheap Monday jeans, in a variety of other colors as well, were $65, with discount code “bunnyshop” $52
We were recently shopping in our hometown mall when we were – no joke – accosted and harassed by an elderly woman with dementia. She seemed as though she had all her faculties, she was just rather abrasive (which is not something we find uncommon. Abrasive people, that is. They run rampant in our circles). The entire 10 minute interaction left us feeling near tears, and despite trying to find a new pair of shoes on the sale rack, we gave up and decided to soldier on.
We attempted to buy our favorite favorite favorite body lotion – coconut body butter from The Body Shop, but it was out of stock. At this point, we are tired, we are hungry, we are upset from the run in with the lady. We want a cookie, a nap, or some kind of new bath thing we can make use of. We stopped in Sephora, looked around, and found the Empowermint Place set from Philosophy.
Goofy name aside, we truly love the fresh (and strong!) mint smell that comes from the body butter, salt scrub, and shower gel. The sizes they give you in the set are surprisingly large for boxed set, the price is right ($35 isn’t bad), and the products are ones you actually want to use. All of them. And for the half hour we took a bath with this stuff, we completely forgot about the earlier evening.
Hurrah! A review from a reader, about one of our favorite things, CB etc Perfume:
Hey, I ordered a couple of those cbIhateperfume samples that you talked about last week or so. I got the “at the beach 1966″ which smells exactly, exactly like old fashioned coppertone plus this salty tang of beach air. It’s delicious. The other one I got was the Mr Hulots Holiday, which is very similiar, except
minus the tangy salt. Maybe a little more herby.
I LOVE the beach one especially and it has really good staying power. The Hulot fades a little faster but I
still like it a lot and I will definitly order “beach 1966″ again. I Heart it. I’m really super fussy about
perfumes, too.
ps: oh, and I used standard ups for shipping (3-5 days) and it came in like a day. Which is nice.
First: Hurrah! New week, new discount. And this one, we will say, was the popular winner when we asked everybody who they wanted a discount from. (Another idea? Please, please let us know, and we’ll get in touch with them. We’re happy to ask anyone.) Anyway: Active Endeavors! All 20% off. Discount code: “bunnyshop20″.
We are always confused, when we have a discount, if we should buy inexpensive things, and really make out, or use it to buy expensive things we would otherwise really not be able to afford. Today, we go with the latter. And! We asked the lovely and excellent Abby for her fall splurge
Just a reminder: the Le Train Bleu discount is good all weekend (through Sunday night), so: 20% off! Practically everything, including our final selection for the week: lovely Vena Cava! This stuff flies out the window—all week we have been hearing that things were gone (though we swear we do check right before the post goes up!), so … at least online there’s no actual, physical pushing and shoving. Vena Cava Bernard dress, was $536, with discount code “bunnyshop”, $428.80
Random question about ballet flats. Does anyone else feel that they don’t stay on the feet correctly? I have a terrible problem with my heels slipping out causing very awkward strides and nasty blisters. This is especially true with the skimpy, low-cut ones … a shape I love.
C.
Can we say—we keep using that weird construction, where we’re all, “Can we” put it’s going to end in a period, rather than a question—that we once bought a pair of ballet shoes to work at this hair salon in SF last fall (we were unbelievably broke. And: free haircuts! And color!) and after we mopped the floor like ten times and swept up all that fucking hair, they were wrecked. That is so off-topic. Those never stayed on our feet, anyway—they’d always pick up at the back. But we were so, like, “We cannot believe our actual job is sweeping hair” that it didn’t entirely register.
Any thoughts? Does this work for anyone?
And we are loving the reader questions. More! Send them here!
In today’s super-relaxed-Friday-summer-publishing-schedule BS Hearts:
Dear Bunnyshop:
I have tried many many brands of mascara looking for the perfect one—one that actually lengthens like they say it will and does not make my eyelashes clumpy in a effort to “add volume”—who who wants THAT? I have finally found it (at Sephora, of course): IMJU Fiberwig. It’s not a special brush—it’s a special fiber filed formula. I was a little concerned that the only option is waterproof, which conjured up images of scrubbing and scrubbing just to get the stuff off. But, it’s not like that at all, with just warm water it just slips off. It’s amazing, really.
K.
Hurrah! We love mascara. We are bringing some to Mongolia. We are not sure we will use it, but at least it is here. We are not as excited about it as we would be if we had this one, though.
IMJU Fiberwig (and what is that name about? It makes us think of insects. But maybe that is just us), $22
Send us your hearts! They are making our day, our week, our year. Really. Sort of.
Sadly, our stylist is like the rest of the world and on vacation. So, we will step in for our stylist and try to help our dear reader who is having a struggle. She is about to see her cheating wanker of an ex-boyfriend at a party (her words, not ours. We would never appropriate British slang because we are from New Jersey and it just sounds odd) for the first time in a year, proving to cause a wardrobe dilemma.
She wonders:
"Do I show up in a laid-back outfit that evokes the vibe ‘I don’t give a fuck about what anyone thinks, especially you, you cheating wanker’, or do I wear something a bit more flattering that reminds him of what a mistake he’s made?’"
We have been in this situation, and we have tried both roads. One road ended up being dark and itchy and uncomfortable – making us twitch for the entire evening. We would suggest a gentle compromise. Wear something you are comfortable in, that you feel you look great in. If you are anything like us, this would make you happier than something new that you are not used to and damn if you didn’t notice the pokey tag in the back of the neckline.
Regardless of the kind of party, we would inevitably end up in skinny jeans (we are hypocrites, we know), a pair of boots or Havianas, a clean/snug/not old black t-shirt and silver hoop earrings. This, in fact, is what we wear whenever we want to ‘knock ‘em dead’ (whoever they may be), and we always feel good about it. If we are feeling especially saucy, we will wear red lipstick. But then we smear it and. Well. That’s for another time. Either way, the best revenge is feeling awesome about yourself – which our reader certainly should – and that will come through if you are wearing a sack or a spandex dress.
