Double the shopping

A friend of mine told me that "The Children's Place" was having a sale on their kids jeans for only $5.99. Lily is always in need of new jeans since she wears through them so much, so I decided to stop in. The store is located in a strip mall, so I pulled up, walked inside and asked the lady if they still have their jeans on sale. She said they were all out, but all their clearance items were an additional 30% off. So I thought I'd go in anyway. They didn't have much in Lily's size, so I started looking for a few things for Jeff. I usually don't need to buy clothes for my boys because I'm fortunate to get a lot of hand-me-downs, but knowing what he had, I felt like he could use a few more outfits. After spending about $50 on clothes for Jeff (most things were $5 or less, so I felt pretty good about it), I loaded the boys back in the van and started to get in myself. However, as I started getting in the van, I looked up at the sign above the store I just came out of and it said "Carter's". Then I noticed the sign to the right said "The Children's Place". At first I thought maybe they were the same store owned by the same company or something. But as I walked over to the right door I realized they were two different stores, Duh! So I went into "The Children's Place" and asked if they had their jeans still on sale and she said "yes". So I got the boys back out of the van (Jeff was not too happy with the idea) and headed into "The Children's Place". I ended up spending another $50 on a whole pile of jeans, some shorts and a shirt for Lily. I'm excited with all that I got, but I definitely was not planning on spending $100 on or going to two different kid clothing stores today!