Lilly Pulitzer Annual Sale

                                         
       So the Lilly Pulitzer summer sale started on Monday at 8am and I was ready. I set my alarm for 7:30am, made my account the day before with all my information so I wouldn't have to worry the day of the sale and I checked the Lilly Facebook page to see what types of sales I could expect. I was ready to scoop up some deals! And then at approximately 8:01am the site crashed...again...and again...and again.  I'm sure I looked pretty crazy just throwing items into my shopping bag whenever I could get on the site without really thinking about it. I decided to, as Carrie Underwood would say, "Let Jesus Take the Wheel" and I was just gonna buy stuff and worry about my credit card later. I was super lucky in the sense that I was able to get all my items into my "Checkout Tote" within the first half hour but I was unlucky in the sense that 4 hours later I still could not check out. I came so close so many times, getting all my information confirmed and exactly at the moment I hit "Place my Order" I got the dreaded "Oh Shift" page handed back to me. The WORST.

The kiss of death

       I was checking the Facebook page and realized that thousands of other people were in the same boat. It was like a little frustrated Lilly community that all rallied behind one another (Ladies Unite)! Around 11:30 (3.5 hours of refreshing my page every 5 seconds later)... Lilly closed the website. Now I was happy they were shutting down to try and resolve the issues, but I was worried all of my items in my shopping bag would delete and I would have to start from scratch. So I took a half hour break, checking the Facebook page occasionally for updates. Then, out of nowhere some girl posted "the site is back up" and I immediately got right back into my shopping bag, all my stuff was there, and I made my purchase. No problem. Then I immediately got up and did a dance, high-fived myself and hugged Misa because she was the only one home. 

    I ended up getting 3 items, the Delia dress in the white spring fling pattern, a shoreline tote and a bangle in the same pattern as my dress. Plus I got such a good deal on everything... and I debated forever whether I should buy more bangles since they were only $14 and a Posey dress (which is still available in my size). I originally really wanted the Tria maxi dress but while I was waiting for the site to load I looked at a bunch of reviews and many people said that the fit was weird...since everything was final sale, I didn't want to take the chance of the maxi being too big on me, so I'll just have to wait and see if I can find it in stores, oh well.

So friends, how did you make out with the Lilly Sale? 

Feel free to share your horror stories or triumphs!

xoxo