TOMS Warehouse Sale

I decided to start having a theme to every day of the week in order to inspire and encourage me to blog more. For some reason, I had the hardest time thinking of theme for Mondays. Makeup Mondays would be the most obvious and I'm definitely going to do some of those, but when I think of "Monday" the denim brand, Cheap Monday always comes to mind. Then I started thinking maybe I could do like a Markdown Monday where I blog about some deals that I scored recently. The unfortunate thing about this is that the deal might be over by the time you read this which kind of sucks. Oh well, I'll figure it out eventually.

So for my first Markdown Monday, I'd like to present the TOMS Warehouse sale which took place this past weekend. Let's look at some pictures of the craziness.

Great prices!

Crazy long line

Finally got in!

A look at some of the styles

My haul

I enlisted the companionship of a dear friend and we braved crowds, poor parking, rain and I kid you not, HAIL to get our shoes. We arrived shortly before the opening time of 10 AM on Friday and discovered that hundreds, possibly thousands of other shoppers had beaten us to the punch. We estimated what time we would get in to the actual shopping area - I said 11:30, she said noon. We didn't get in until 2 PM! We waiting in line for FOUR FREAKING HOURS!!! And that is four hours without water, lunch or a bathroom break. I was stressing out and getting hangry.

Well we finally made it in only to discover another huge line to pay. My friend and I decided to tag team and take turns waiting in line and shopping. Ultimately, I was disappointed by the selection. There were no solid classic TOMS which is what I really wanted to get. I ended up buying 5 pairs - 3 for myself and 2 pairs for my mom, plus a pair of sunglasses. The coral shoes are my mom's and I also got her a pair of black suede Botas, but I guess she wore them to work today. The black slip ons with skulls are actually from the Youth section and were only $15. Oh and it took us 2.5 hours to pay so in total we ended up spending over 6.5 hours at the sale and didn't leave until 4:30. The lesson learned is NEVER AGAIN. It really wasn't worth it for me and I most definitely won't be returning. I guess you will have to determine that for yourself though because there were people who were buying loads of shoes. That's all for my first Markdown Monday - I hope you enjoyed!