I was in LA this past weekend, and somehow we ended up at South Coast Plaza.

That place is like a mini-city. We only hit a few stores and spent majority of the time at Bloomingdale’s and Sak’s because their sales was so fabulous. And as we all know, selection varies by store and lets just say the South Coast Plaza stores had some fabulous stuff (on sale).

Here’s my splurge purchase, a purple patent leather Ferragamo wallet. I absolutely love it! It’s shinny and cute, with perfect slots for everything. I got it for $150 (originally $450, sale at $300 and then there was an extra 50% off!). I did think this was the best deal possible, but I actually just found a similar deal online. So you can get one too

Below’s a fuzzy picture from my phone…

My New Purple Patent Leather Ferragamo Wallet

What’s notable this year for the weekend before Christmas shopping at the mall:

• Things are on sale like they are the week after Christmas in previous years
• Traditionally expensive gift giving items like cashmere sweaters at Banana Republic are over 50% off ($35 ish) and really cute wool jacket only $130 (about half off too)
• Christmas items at places like Pottery Barn are already 50% off, and the Christmas inventory looks almost untouched
• High end places like the Kate Spade store having 30% off everything sale
• Bloomingdale’s extra 40% off all already on sale purses and wallets
• Williams-Sonoma having a 20% off everything in the store sale the 4 days before Christmas

Will see what happens after Christmas. Still lots of inventory everywhere…