As I’ve blogged before; I don’t go shopping, I go buying.

My trick is to hit the outlet malls, where a $50 t-shirt is the more proper price of $11.

I never buy trendy. So while I am never really en-vogue, I’m never really out of it, either; instead, I go for “classic”.

That and black, because then everything matches.

Here’s my new trick: use your CAA card, and receive

an additional 10% off your total purchase price, before tax

And that includes things that are already on sale. Everything.

A $150 jacket was reduced to $60, NICE.

Click here for a full list of CAA partners; their reach might surprise you, like it did me.

Here, I’m at the Gap Factory Store, and the Banana Republic Factory Store.

That’s where I met Shantel, who even got me into some not-black, not an easy task; natural salesgirl, that one ;)

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