Retail Therapy

~ Went out for some retail therapy late this afternoon.

On Monday, while in Rundle Mall, Shiels the jeweller had a huge sale on. Actually, I’m not even sure if the it was a Shiels outlet I was looking at!

I was interested in buying a new watch, since my current model is quite some years old, and had stopped working. In the end, I didn’t buy, but since today was ‘pay day’, I decided to go to West Lakes Mall and check out the Shiels there. Unfortunately, they didn’t have the model or make of watch that caught my eye on Monday, which reinforces the notion that I was in the wrong store.

However, not to be denied, I coughed up $129.00 for a new Citizen watch. It appears to be an E6 BLU ARAB DATE 100M TT GENTS DISC model. At least, that’s what the sales docket says. Which is to say it has a blue face plate, displays the date, is water resistant to 100 metres, is designed for males, and I assume has a round face which accounts for the ‘disc’ comment.

Just to cap things off, I then walked 15 metres down the Mall, and paid another $15.00 to replace the battery in my old watch, which now appears to be working just fine.

So why didn’t I save myself $114.00 I hear you ask.

Well, I’m glad you did.

Retail Therapy, that’s why.

It was time to treat myself to something special, and this watch just happened to be the thing I felt I needed. I have decided that I will continue to wear my old watch during the day, and the new Citizen whenever I am going out. It will in effect serve as my ‘dress’ watch.

By the way, the watch looks 100% better than the poor photograph of it illustrating this entry.

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