Oh no it's a Retour, also I'm behind.
Alright, so here’s the deal. I haven’t updated in about a week, and I had vowed to update every single day. Well, I have been writing, starting and sometimes finishing entries every day, in Microsoft Word, but they haven’t gotten posted. I don’t want to flood my friends’ friends pages with late posts, with multiple entries in the same day, but when I tried to back date entries, it wouldn’t do so. For instance, I had an entry for the 28th, almost finished that night, but I wound up posting it on the 29th, and when I tried to back date it, it still insisted on dating it 12/29/2010. So, I’ll keep it down to just 2 entries, smallish ones, per day until I’m all caught up. Maybe later if I can figure out how to successfully back date my entries I can fix them and get my journal looking all nice and spiffy. Until then, that’s just how it’s got to work.
So, my wallet is cowering under the china cabinet in terror, because Possets Perfumes is having another Retour de Possets event. I know myself, and I know that I’m really going to have to make a concerted effort to establish and adhere to a budget for this Retour as I could easily spend hundreds and hundreds of dollars. There are 251 blends available for purchase in all and even if each was only $10.00, but some of them are $20.00, that would still be $2,510.00 worth of potentially purchase-worthy perfume product. So, I am going to take a very methodical approach to eliminate scents I already have, scents I have tried and know for sure I don’t like, scents that I don’t have, have never tried but that don’t have a good chance of success on me, based on their descriptions and reviews and see what is left over, then prioritize that. I think I can give myself a maximum of $200.00 which equals 20 blends if I stick to $10.00s and avoid the 20.00 100% Natural Blends. I know I want way more then 20, but I’ll have to be discerning, especially as I know I’ll want some from the Yule update which will go away mid January, unlike the Retour which will end on the 8th of this month. Then there’ll be valentines blends soon, so I need a strategy. I’ll also assess the likelihood of individual blends returning when making my selections. While the Retours are not guaranteed to ever come back, as Retours are random and wonderful, but rare events, the Yule blends at least have a bit longer than the rest of the Retours, and if Fabienne does as she usually does, then there will be 3, or more scents, but it is usually 3, voted from the Yules into the permanent collection, so I will wait and place a second order after Retour for my top 6 choices from the Yules, once I can see which blends will go permanent and which will not. So, I’ll make a list of 9, which leaves 6 to order, even if all 3 of the ones voted permanent are ones I was thinking of purchasing.
I’ve also made the budgeting decision that for every Possets release, I will allow myself a budget of $60.00, since you must purchase greater than $50.00 in order to get free shipping, and the only way to exceed it is to buy another whole $10.00 Posset, after 5 Possets are in the cart to establish a $50.00 total. It won’t be easy, but I really must learn some self control. I’ll have to read reviews, participate in decant circles, be tough on myself, very strict and prioritize, prioritize, prioritize.
So, with that budget in mind, I am off to start whittling down my options from the Retour offerings for 2010.
So, my wallet is cowering under the china cabinet in terror, because Possets Perfumes is having another Retour de Possets event. I know myself, and I know that I’m really going to have to make a concerted effort to establish and adhere to a budget for this Retour as I could easily spend hundreds and hundreds of dollars. There are 251 blends available for purchase in all and even if each was only $10.00, but some of them are $20.00, that would still be $2,510.00 worth of potentially purchase-worthy perfume product. So, I am going to take a very methodical approach to eliminate scents I already have, scents I have tried and know for sure I don’t like, scents that I don’t have, have never tried but that don’t have a good chance of success on me, based on their descriptions and reviews and see what is left over, then prioritize that. I think I can give myself a maximum of $200.00 which equals 20 blends if I stick to $10.00s and avoid the 20.00 100% Natural Blends. I know I want way more then 20, but I’ll have to be discerning, especially as I know I’ll want some from the Yule update which will go away mid January, unlike the Retour which will end on the 8th of this month. Then there’ll be valentines blends soon, so I need a strategy. I’ll also assess the likelihood of individual blends returning when making my selections. While the Retours are not guaranteed to ever come back, as Retours are random and wonderful, but rare events, the Yule blends at least have a bit longer than the rest of the Retours, and if Fabienne does as she usually does, then there will be 3, or more scents, but it is usually 3, voted from the Yules into the permanent collection, so I will wait and place a second order after Retour for my top 6 choices from the Yules, once I can see which blends will go permanent and which will not. So, I’ll make a list of 9, which leaves 6 to order, even if all 3 of the ones voted permanent are ones I was thinking of purchasing.
I’ve also made the budgeting decision that for every Possets release, I will allow myself a budget of $60.00, since you must purchase greater than $50.00 in order to get free shipping, and the only way to exceed it is to buy another whole $10.00 Posset, after 5 Possets are in the cart to establish a $50.00 total. It won’t be easy, but I really must learn some self control. I’ll have to read reviews, participate in decant circles, be tough on myself, very strict and prioritize, prioritize, prioritize.
So, with that budget in mind, I am off to start whittling down my options from the Retour offerings for 2010.