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This week’s Retail Therapy Challenge is a classic one. Career gal Alison has just learned she is expecting. And the daddy? Some dude with whom she had a drunken, somewhat regrettable one night stand. She’s in a fragile state. She needs to buy something. It won’t fix things, but it sure will make her feel better.
Here’s how to play. Leave a comment below answering the question “What should Alison buy?”
Winning Retail Therapy RX gets this gorgeous Mock Crock Diaper Bag from Rowdy Products!
A totally swanky, sassy bag. Purse. Whatever. But a bag in some form or other always cheers the blues away. Especially that you can still use it even when you’re fat and preggo!
Alison should keep them all guessing as well as her sense of humor about her situation and get this “who’s your daddy?” maternity shirt
http://www.duematernity.com/whyodat.html
alison should buy herself a mani and pedi. cuz when she gets bigger she won’t be able to do it herself!
Allison totally needs to buy this Marc by Marc Jacobs baghttp://www.zappos.com/n/p/p/7487400/c/5756.html that I was coveting at the Mom2Summit on Bronwyn. I bought it to cheer myself up after our bad Boston weather!
She really needs a new pair of hot shoes and a great bag! That is what I would buy first.
She should totally buy herself a new pair of expensive shoes. This way she can wear them while pregnant and after the baby comes. It would be the gift [to herself] that keeps on giving.
She should go buy out Godiva! Or one of those fancy cupcake shops if she has one nearby. Or both. Lord knows that’s what I would do!
She should blow a bunch of money on expensive make-up. A splurge that helps you look great during pregnancy.
Alison should get herself a Netflix subscription! On those nights when she’s too uncomfortable to sleep, she’ll have something to entertain herself. Once the baby comes, she’ll enjoy it, too, since she won’t be able to go out to the movies!
by allison’s previous history, sounds like her baby could very well be prone to messy accidents as well. allison should buy some babysparewear…a pre-packed spare outfit for those unplanned emergencies on the go…
She needs to buy herself a ‘hot mom’ tee!!!
she should buy herself some jewelry…anything from tiffany’s would be fantastic!
She should buy some reliable birth control. The next guy could be even worse.
She needs some serious chocolate therapy
!!! And a shopping spree afterwards…
She should buy some luxury sheets to sleep on while pregnant. Because after the baby, good rests are few and far between!
She should buy a miessence certified organic breast & belly balm from Bianca’s Organics:
http://biancasorganics.mionegroup.com:80/en/product/33401 – it smells yummy, so it will make her feel better and she won’t get stretch marks!
She should go for a day at a spa, one that caters to pregnant women, to treat herself and try to relax. Many spas now have wonderful packages for the mom-to-be, I know I wish I had the chance to pamper myself like that during one of my two pregnancies.
I think that she should buy herself a new bed because for an hour at a time you need that sleep to feel like heaven.
She definitely needs a new purse AND a new pair of shoes. Feeling sassy is a MUST before you start gaining the pregnancy pounds
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She should most definitely buy a fun new gadget, like an iPod Touch or mini laptop, since she will likely spend at least a few weeks feeling like total crap and will need some quality entertainment/communication from the couch. Maybe a new couch too. Oh, and since she’s a career woman, she better load up on sweat suits and other comfy must-haves for said couch time.
Really high high strappy heels in a totally unsensible color, no basic black this time, and they must be extremely expensive. Oh I know she’ll have swollen feet and then won’t be able to balance on them when she’s bigger and ungainly, but when she puts them on post baby they’ll reassure her that she’s still got it going on and is one hot mama. My good friend answered the door holding her newborn in a full face of make up, high boots, and dangly earrings when I went to meet the baby. That was a hey nice to know you can have a baby and not end up in mom jeans moment.
How about opening up a college fund for the baby?
Um, an adults only vacation of course because it will be a long time before one of those comes along again!
Wine. For after of course.
She should get a sexy handbag and carry it everywhere, because once the baby comes, she’ll be switching to a diaper bag unless she manages some time out without the baby. I’m also thinking that whoever is suggesting sexy shoes either hasn’t been pregnant, or had a very different experience than me. It wasn’t long until my feet puffed up like sausages, and every shoe I owned seemed like a small torture device. For that reason, I’d suggest that she also invest in a pair of Haflinger clogs like these:
http://www.onlineshoes.com/productpage.asp?gen=w&pcid=121131
which are what I lived in for most of my pregnancy and still wear around the house (three years later).