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Right so on with the show. On Boxing Day I did something out of
character and that was venturing out to the Boxing Day Sales. I’m not normally one for going to the sales
after Christmas, or in general. I prefer
to shop online from the comfort of my sofa/bed.
However, since I have started blogging I wanted to get out there with
the masses to see what bargains were to be had and also practice my vlogging.
I decided to stick a little closer to home and
go to St Albans. The shops there are
pretty good, the only downer is that it doesn’t have a Primark, but I guess
that means another shopping day to Primark right?
Hee hee.
We set off at a
decent hour, our train times were picked, Starbucks was purchased and away we go. We got to the station and the ticket office
was closed and the main building locked up tight. The side entrance was open
though so no biggy, right? Wrong! The gate was indeed open but the machines to
purchase tickets weren’t working (that should have been clue No. 1). We took a photo of the machine as we would
buy our tickets when we got to St Albans. There were a few people waiting for the trains
going into London but other then that it was really quiet. I
started to do a bit of vlogging when I heard someone yell “excuse me”, it was
a fellow passenger informing us that the info machine on the platform had said
that no trains were running at all today.
Great! Now what. Dave very kindly suggested we get an Uber and luckily there was one nearby. Yay, crisis averted. It was shocking though, as the website was showing that trains were running as normal. I looked up Thameslink on Twitter and the buggers were now saying that no trains. Anywho,
we hopped in our Uber and arrived in St Albans no time.
Let the shopping commence.
We hit up Boots first, as I’ve heard that their
sales can get crazy with people queuing really early in the morning. My goal here was to see what gift set offers
were to be had and also purchase my first Liz Earle products.
As you can see there were some good bargains to
be found. I couldn’t get over the deal
that was this Elizabeth Arden New York Beauty Must Haves set. The lady behind the counter said it was worth
£90, was originally sold for £60 and was now reduced to £25. The mascara alone is worth £22 so you pretty
much get the rest of the products for £3!
Bargain or what.
This set contains:-
· Eight House Cream Intensive Daily Moisturiser
for Dace SPF15 50ml
· Visible Difference Exfoliating Cleanser 125ml
· Ceramide Lash Extending Treatment Mascara Black
· Cereamide Ultra Lipstick Melon
I’m really excited to try the mascara as I’ve
been thinking about researching some lash extending moisturising type enhanced
doobery.
Liz Earle only had one set on offer and whist I
wanted to purchase the famous Cleanse and Polish, I wasn’t keen on the other
item in the set, that being the eye cream.
If I was going to try out the C&P I figured that I might as well
follow up with the moisturiser. I ended
up purchasing the Daily Essentials Kit at full price £45. I’ll list below the exact products
contained:-
· Cleanse & Polish Hot Cloth Cleanser 100ml
· Instant Boost Skin Tonic 200ml
· Skin Repair for Dry/Sensitive skin 50ml
· Gentle Face Exfoliator 50ml
Dave got himself a new aftershave, Tommy, which
was £51 reduced to £17.99, so he was pleased with that.
Our next stop was Clintons as I wanted to see
if they had any Yankee Candles on offer.
They did have 50% off of their Christmas range, but I wasn’t feeling any
of the scents. I did end up buying the Yankee Candle Christmas Melts Warmer. That was half price and I paid £9.49 for it
(original price £18.99). This set contains:-
- Melt Warmer
- Christmas Eve melt
- Cinnamon Stick melt
- Snow in Love melt
- 1 x tea light
Superdrug was next but their shelves had been
raided. They did have the Real
Techniques Ultimate brush set for £48.99 reduced from £99.99 which is not a bad
deal, but a little more than what I was willing to pay so I passed on that one.
Real Techniques Ultimate Gift Set - Superdrug
I haven’t been in a BHS in such a long time but
figured why not pop in and see what they might have. I found the Christmas gifts section and we
picked up some of those alcoholic gift sets you can get. I love Disaronno so had to get the set with
the nice glass in and at £3 you can’t go wrong (all prices were 50% off). Dave picked a Captain Morgans set with coffee
and a really nice looking mug, his was £6 and a good bargain. I was tempted to buy the Courvoisier set, as
the mug was really nice looking, but stopped myself as I didn’t really need it. The last thing I found was a blanket reduced
to £12.50. I love the design and have
been wanted a cable knit type for ages.
We then stopped off in a shop called Love Aroma
(they are an authorised official Yankee Candle stockist) again they had the
Christmas range at 50% off. I purchased
Season of Peace at £10.99, there wasn’t much else that took my fancy as I was
interested to see if they had some of the more normal/usual scents on offer. We did decide to purchase the Cappuccino
Truffle, which smells absolutely divine and is a different scent then what we
would usually go for, hence the justification of spending £22 on a candle.
I popped into H&M to look and see if they had
any treggings in stock and also browsed the sale racks. No treggings, but I did end up purchasing a
couple of cardigans which will be perfect for Disney World next year. The purple-y one was a steal at £3 and
reminds me a little of the Missoni design.
TK Maxx was next, now I must confess to never
having really shopping in here before. I
think I tried once but it was so messy looking I walked straight back out. But I thought I would give it another try as
I have seen other fellow bloggers find some good bargains in there. It started off well, I found a Michael Kors
bag in there but not a design I would have gone for. I started to feel the same feeling when
browsing the racks, that it was just too much and where does one start. I think (and this is in no way an insult to
any TK Maxx lovers) this is the kind of shop where you really need to be
dedicated and give time to searching through all the racks to find that bargain
or lucky designer item. I did manage to
find a foundation brush from Eco Tools, I already have one and absolutely love
it so seeing another one at £3.99 instead of £6.99 made it worth venturing in.
We were pretty much done by this time, our bags
were heavy and we were getting hungry so we stopped off in a local pub for some
food and headed back home after that.
Now you would think this post would end here,
having been out for the best part of 5hrs, but no. I had to take back a Christmas present that I
received from my parents (duplicate present) so left Dave in our local Vape
shop (his fav hobby) and set off for Debenhams (our local shopping park has a
good few shops including a Debenhams). I
managed to find a replacement and also some other sale goodies. The Benefit Pucker up and Party lip set was on sale for £13 down from £19.50. I had been eying this one up before Christmas
and was very pleased with my find.
I also picked up a wash bag for Dave that had
gone on sale, is a Marvel design reduced from £15 to £7.50. This Batman suit cover would be the perfect
replacement for his current suit cover and he does like a bit of Batman. This was also reduced to £7.50 from £15.
I then headed over to Boots to see what they
had that we didn’t see in St Albans and let me tell you, this one had way more. I picked up:-
· Colours by Technic Eye Collection half price
down to £5
· Soap and Glory Three Times Butter Set half
price down to £4
· A Champneys Nail Polish Collection half price
down to £6
· For Dave I found his favourite deodorant in a
gift set, Old Spice Wolfthorne which contains a deodorant, aftershave and
shower gel. That was half price down to
£7.50
· Lastly I got him a L’Oreal Men Expert set which
contains a skin and stubble wash and a
skin and stubble moisturiser.
I figured I had better leave before it got too
messy and headed to the checkout and on my way home.
All in all it was a really successful day, lots
of bargains to be found and it wasn’t as crazy as I thought it was going to
be. I will try and link below the items
that I purchased, but some may already been sold out or not available at all
online so I apologise.
I will be reviewing most of the items I have
purchased individually so look out for those posts soon. I will also be doing a Boxing Day Sale haul
vlog and also uploading the vlog of the day itself, so again look out for links
to those soon.
As always thanks for reading and please feel
free to comment, I would love to hear from you.
Ciao for now
Stefy xxx
