sales sales sales

My American friend here first introduced me to the sales last summer. We went shopping during the "designated" sale time specified by the government. Stores cannot have a sale whenever they want to have a sale... that would not be fair to the other stores!

So we went shopping and mostly admired all of the summer clothing that had been critically marked down. She told me that once the sales are over, everything mysteriously disappears... no secondary markdowns... no final clearance prices... it's just suddently gone!

I noticed the same thing just after the back-to-school promotions. One day stores were brimming with notebooks, pencils, pens, and lots of erasers.. and then the next day - poof! gone. So you can imagine how festive all the stores have been - decorated for Christmas. The french have a way of making anything ordinary look simply extraordinary! The window displays were beautiful! So Jeff and I decided to go to the mall yesterday and just take a look around. I had kinda forgotten about the 'poof' (here today, gone tomorrow) and expected to see leftover Christmas merchandise ... beh non. It's WHITE SALE time!