MAJOR Win =D

I am so excited for this post!

For my birthday in May, Fernando got me a $50 gift card. Instead of going on an impulsive shopping trip to my faaaavorite clothing store [DOTS], I decided to wait for a coupon special. When you sign up with dots, they send you coupons about once a month. Usually they are $10 off of $30 or $15 off of $50. Now that is nice and all, but when my grandma gave me $100 dollars out of love [TY GRANDMA!], I knew I wanted to make the money go a long way for some back to school shopping. 

Dots currently has a promotion on Facebook for a coupon when they reach 100k Fans. This is nice and all but they won't even say how much the coupon is for, and its tax-free weekend over here in FL THIS weekend. So I knew I couldn't wait for that deal to go shopping.
Well, then Dots sent out an email about the Foursquare APP on cell phones.

The current deal works like this:

Check in for the first time at DOTS using foursquare and get $10 off of $30
OR

Become the Mayor of that location and get 30% off. 

So of course I aimed for the mayorship. Fortunately for me, my local dots had no mayor! So I checked in, and as of today, I became MAYOR of my local dots on foursquare [Ask me on Facebook to explain this further if you are still confused].

So now I had the Tax-free weekend, a 30% of coupon, AND $150 of money given to me as a gift. I was READY!!

When I went to the store I was overwhelmed at the selection. But 2 hours later, I was ready to check out. Fortunately for me, more than half of the stuff that I loved happened to be on Sale or even Clearance! In the end, this is how the money worked out:

Before promotions:

$216.80

- 30% Off

= $151.76

- $100 Cash and $50 Gift Card

= $1.76!!!!! 

In the end, between promotions and the tax-free weekend alone, I saved $80.22!!! That's like $80 of clothes for FREE!!

Since I didn't have to pay anything with my own money except for the $1.76 and the rest was a gift, I'll count my spending/savings as what I spent Out of Pocket and what I saved from promotions and tax-free savings alone, not the fact that I had $150 of free money.

Now the best part is when you realize HOW MUCH stuff I got =D

Here are my tallies:

2 Pairs of Denim Jeans

3 Pants 

3 Dresses

2 Tank Tops

1 Cardigan

6 Dressy Shirts

That's averages out to about $8 per item!! Including 5 pairs of pants!

I highly recommend Dots to you guys. I feel like the clothes can be dressed down for school or relaxing, but also dressed up for dates and in my case, fieldwork! Plus they carry sizes from 0-24, so pretty much anybody can find really cute clothes for REALLY low prices.

Total spent:

$1.76

Saved: $80.22

Here is a pretty crappy cell phone picture of how much stuff I got :D