The X File of Yulya X's Fashion World

Amidst this economic crisis, have we all became a bit of a cheap skate? Well… From what I experienced on Boxing Day, perhaps the rumour is true… People were jam-packed in stores as the sounds of credit cards being swiped are faded in the background of the conversations.

Nonetheless, on this bright sunny day, despite the fact that I had been drinking glögg [1] with smirnoff semi-heavily the night before, I woke up at 9am to prepare for my day out with the girls. I am not so sure if it is because I have grown apart from my friends or because I don’t shop with anyone regularly anymore, but I find the whole thing irritating: the fact that I go to shops that I don’t really go to normally. Of course, sometimes that is cool, because it can really open your eyes as you see something special and you fall in love with the store, but perhaps that does not come about so easily when you:

1. have to wait in line to go in a store (Just the fact that I have to await annoys me already);
2. are swarmed by a sea of sweaty hyperaggressive shoppers.

Iks!

Nonetheless, the thing I hate the most is when you pay at the counter and your friends accompany you. Ok… For people who like to show off their class and money, I guess buying something cheap is a disgrace and they like it when people stand around when they buy expensive things; but with only a 3-digit number left in my bank account, I really should not act and look generous at all.

Yet, it was irresistible. I had to make a rather essential enormous purchase at Lush [2] that day, just because I could not stand the devil temptation. I went home with:

Yulya's purchase from Lush

1. Buffy [Body Butter/Scrub] 79kr/90g;
2. Ceridwens Cauldron [Bath Melt] 59kr/80g;
3. Honey bee [Bath bomb] 49kr/200g;
4. Mango Too [Mmm... Massage Bar] 99kr/100g;
5. The Soft Touch [Body Butter] 99kr/90g.

About this extravagant expenditure for these luxurious goods in front of my friends, I just felt extremely embarrassed that I wanted to find a mousehole to hide. It seemed rather stupid to reason to others that it’s a whole year of supply and that I honestly normally do not buy that much, so perhaps, if I truly want to appear and act as a genuine authentic vagrant hobo, who behind the curtains like to buy expensive things from the British label of Luella [3], I am doomed to be a lone shopper…

Endnote:

[1] Glögg is the Nordic form of mulled wine.

[2] Prices in swedish kronor. My favorite Lush store is in Slussen (link), but I also find the store in Stureplan very nice. See you there!

[3] I had a conversation with this girl the other day and unknowingly, she made some sort of remarks on the lines of my Luella T-Shirt being cheap, because I seem to buy verrry cheap things usually. Arrrgh…