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| - Here's how to be successful at Urban Outfitters:
1. Come into the store, plan on only looking around at all of the cool merchandise, and resolve to buy absolutely nothing unless it's on sale.
2. When you find something that you absolutely love--which won't be hard, because this place is filled with tons of great stuff, albeit at exceptionally high prices--make a mental note of it and do whatever mental gymnastics you need to do in order to store it in your long-term memory.
3. Come back a few weeks or months later, say a prayer if you're one who prays, cross your fingers if you're not, and head towards the sales racks. Chances are that the item you wanted a few months ago will be there at significantly marked down prices!
4. Purchase the item and leave happy, but don't forget to repeat steps 1 and 2 with all of the new merchandise on the shelves before you go!
(This is not 100% foolproof all of the time--every now and then, there are products so cool that people actually pay full price for them. I am not responsible for any unsuccessful shopping trips!)
If you find stuff on sale here, this place is great. We got this really cute lamp of a neon green bunny for something like $20-$25, marked down from either $40-$50...and I'm currently hoping to score a wall hanging of a whale lifting up a ship with its nose on a future shopping trip. (They've had it at full price for awhile now!) While the stuff not on sale is really cool, it's incredibly overpriced for what it is, and I think the store takes advantage of the "cool" factor to pump up prices a bit because they know people will pay them. Seriously...they want $25 for a man's tee-shirt? C'mon!
One thing that I find interesting\scary is the nature of the steps to the second floor. They're concrete, and they look sturdy...but they feel like I'm bouncing when I walk on them. I'm always afraid that they're going to snap, yet they've been doing this for quite some time now. Maybe they're meant to be like that?
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