Target Too Swanky

 

 

I went to Target for the very first time a couple of weeks ago. We don't have one in my tiny town and the nearest one in my state is three hours away. When I went to visit my sister in Tuscaloosa I made her take me to the Target there. I had really high expectations, having seen meme's like this and reading blogs by upper middle class women who talk about their Target addiction and how they never get what they actually went in there for because everything is so beautiful.

 

Imma be honest and say, "I am too poor to shop at Target." The sticker shock for me was terrible. There are plenty of beautiful things there, to be sure, but for me, it was no different than walking into an upscale department store in terms of how far out of my reach it is. And I'm not even just talking about the home goods or clothing items. I'm talking the basics.

 

For instance, I hadn't brought my own bodywash to T-town because I figured I'd just use whatever Emmy used except, being a teenager, she was almost out and hadn't told her mom that she needed more. I didn't want to use up what little she had left so while we were in Target, I figured I'd just pick up a bottle of the cheapest stuff. The cheapest stuff I'm used to buying is a $2 bottle of Suave though I have in recent months switched to a $4 bottle of Olay because it is a much larger bottle and it lasts longer. Needless to say, the cheapest bodywash I could find in Target was a $4 bottle of a brand I'd never even heard of that was  half the size of the Olay I buy for home. You don't want to know how much the Olay cost at Target. It made me physically ill. (Or maybe it was the $12 Quiche I'd eaten at brunch earlier. Hard to say. haha)

 

 

 

I wandered aimlessly around the store oooing and aahhing at all the pretty stuff and only ended up buying the bodywash, some dog treats (I'd forgotten Libby's) and a tub drain cover in the size I'd been looking for but couldn't find and spent almost $20. I have an overall "grocery" budget of $70 a week. I spent a about a quarter of it on three items in Target. *thud* (Groceries in Janaspeak is everything you buy continually. Soap, detergent, toothpaste, paper towels, toilet paper, Libby treats/food, cheese, butter, chicken breasts,  half and half and coffee, mostly.)

 

However lower class it might be portrayed by Middle Class America, I think I'll stick to Wal-Mart, thankyouverymuch. At least there, I'm able to bathe AND eat. Though if Wal-Mart could put in a Starbucks I'd be ever so grateful. ;-)