The Numbers Game

Have you ever spotted a pair of shoes that you didn't flat out hate but also weren't over the moon about?

I like to call this feeling kinda love.  Kinda love is the worst feeling to have about an item because you don't buy it but you constantly think about it.  And the should-I-shouldn't-I debate only grows until the next thing you know, you are asking anyone who will listen for a second opinion.  And often with kinda love, you wait to long.  The next thing you know the object of your kinda love is sold out and you realize you've made a horrible mistake because you now know you definitely, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that you can't live with out them.

But I digress...

I was recently at the mall doing shoe research (if only that was a real job) when I stumbled across my most recent object of kinda love.

Cute, right?  They had enough pull to get me into a Payless in Costa Rica.  Yes.  I admit it.  I'm a lover of shoes of any price and quality.  Now you may be wondering why, at Payless prices, did my kinda love shoes not become my vacation impulse buy shoes?  Well, dear readers, how much do you think those beauts cost?  $30?

$40?

$50?

Nope.  $88.  Eighty-eight US dollars.  Take a moment for that to sink in.  Is your mind blown?  I can still barely wrap my mind around it.   I was paralyzed.  They were cute but not me.  But super fun for the end of summer.  But did I really want to part with nearly one hundred dollars?  For shoes from Payless?  Next thing I knew I was emailing and sending international picture texts for second opinions.  I mean, you would have done the same thing, right?  Right?  No, only me?  Then this might not be the right blog for you.

But I digress...

$88...