In The Pursuit Of Truth, Justice, & The KERRI Way: A Stress FREE Day

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

A Stress FREE Day

Thanks to Crowdtap I am a member of the Old Navy Style Council.

Sounds awesome, right?!

Well, it totally is. Not only do I get to give my opinions on other products & companies but I get to give my opinion on all things Old Navy. I don't know about you but I LOVE Old Navy!

I'm guessing you do too.

As a member of the Old Navy Style Council you get opportunities to be involved in sample parties or events.

I was lucky enough to be chosen to be part of their JEANS Event, where I was mailed a coupon for ONE FREE PAIR OF OLD NAVY JEANS.

SCORE!

and a second coupon for a friend for ONE FREE PAIR OF OLD NAVY JEANS.

DOUBLE SCORE!!

I, of course, grabbed my BFF for a girls day to celebrate. For each other's birthday's we always take the other to see a movie of their choice. As July was Karie's b-day she chose Crazy, Stupid, Love. We went to an early showing & I had a FREE movie ticket (Christmas gift) so it only cost me $7.50 (K's ticket & souvenir cup refill). Crazy, Stupid, Love. was a great movie...if you haven't seen it GO. Seriously, GO NOW and SEE IT!!

Then I had a coupon for a FREE pair of hiphuggers from Victoria Secret. Seriously, cheapest shopping day EVER!

We then went to Wendy's for lunch. After waiting for a ridiculously long time in an extremely slow line there may have been an incident between Karie and the drink lid dispenser. One where about a 100 plastic drink lids launched themselves at her chest only to sprIng everywhere around us in a loud clatter (and a lot of hysterical giggling from us).

Needless to say, there was a lot of staring (from everyone in the restaurant) and yelling (from the poor harassed Wendy's lady behind the order counter). We apologized profusely & chatted with the lady about stressful days & such. I think even though we made a huge mess for her to clean up (one she wouldn't let us help clean up) we gave her a bit of a fun break & someone to vent to.

Then we finally got down to business and went to Old Navy. Anyone who's ever been in an Old Navy knows there's THE WALL. The long, high wall of JEANS. Truthfully, I usually am a bit intimidated by THE WALL and avoid it to only shop for jeans in the smaller racks & displays around it. I know, what was I thinking?! Since FREE jeans were the pay off we immediately tackled THE WALL, grabbing every color & style we could find in our sizes.

We went on the weekend which must have been the end of the summer break for most schools because Old Navy was PACKED! Moms and children were EVERYWHERE. If FREE jeans hadn't been the deal I would have turned right around and came back another time, after the PTSD wore off.

So we grabbed our (first) pile of jeans and waded into the fitting room area. We unfortunately couldn't get rooms next to each other but we were close enough. We didn't have the freedom to take photos of each other like we had planned but we did manage to show each other the options & discuss our likes and dislikes of each pair.

Oddly enough, even though I am 5'4 and Karie is 5'6 and we are totally build differently we had the same opinions on the jeans. There may have been a slight difference in the reasoning why but we liked & disliked the same pairs of jeans.

The Sweetheart Boot-cut jeans were just okay. Neither one of us totally loved the cut, nor did we totally hate it.

The (Skinny) Mini-flairs would have been awesome but they were a bit too small around the waist area. They fit both of us perfectly in the leg area but was a bit too snug everywhere above that. They were the only fit of jeans that were too small in the size we wore and going up a size didn't work because it made them far too big.