You Can’t Always Get What You Want

…but if you try sometimes you might find something really similar in your price range!

I have been drooling over this this Naudia chair ever since I spotted it and used it in a purple and gold Christmas inspiration board a few months ago.  This weekend I saw the chair in person and fell even more in love with it.

It’s actually not a bad price at just $119.88, but I don’t have a practical use for it and there’s no way I will dish out a hundred smackaroos on a decorative chair right now.  I decided to reevaluate what I really like about the chair.  I found the main things that attracted me to it are its purple color, floral pattern, and feminine aesthetic.  I began to wonder if I could find these qualities in something else that might be more useful to me and in my price range.

A little rummaging through TJ Maxx and I found just the thing.

It has the purple, the floral pattern, and it’s definitely feminine!  I have enough space in my jewelry box for now but this will give me room to expand and in the meantime I could use it as a makeshift charging station, a place to hold ponytail holders and other hair doo-dads, or as a little office supplies storage kit.  Score, I thought, until I realized I still need to know if it was in my price range… Red tags are my friends!  A whopping seven dollars and fifty cents was all I needed to make this beauty mine.  As much as I love red tags and the shavings they save me off of each and every hard-earned dollar, I become a tad paranoid when I see them.  I looked the box up and down for a few minutes, scrutinizing every square inch of it, but there was nothing wrong!  I couldn’t believe my luck.  I clutched it under my arm like a pro football player, extended my other arm, and sprinted to the front of the store to check out.  Now it’s sitting on my desk waiting to be loved.

Isn’t it great what a little brain power can do?  I went from loving but secretly hating a beautiful chair because I had no use for it and it was out of my price range to buying something much more useful for less than ten percent of the cost but one hundred percent of the beauty.  Can anyone really go wrong buying things this way?  I will need to keep my modified Rolling Stones mentality playing in my head at all times when I go shopping (in reference to the title of this post).  I feel I can save money this way while also finding products I love by figuring out what it is I like about the things I can’t afford and finding those qualities in more reasonably priced (read: cheap and on clearance) items.  Happy shopping!