Blog Influence

We are truly a blog related family. Everybody who reads and responds to a blog connects themselves and influences or is influenced by it.

Recently, California Linda wrote to me and another Hawaii blogger friend, Jalna that she'd found a great vest at the Eddie Bauer Outlet store.

Linda had seen a wonderful vest on another blogger site and thought we might be interested.

I wasn't at first.

I already have two vests. One REI vest is a heavier fleece and a little small on me. The four pockets can't fit much other than my airline tickets.

This other one is lighter weight and also has four pockets, but also can't hold all that much.


Sooooo.... here I was not even thinking about getting another vest for travel and I started looking online for another one. Nothing jumped out at me. Either they didn't have it in my size, didn't have good inside pockets, were crazy expensive or whatever.

And then...

This TravelSmith vest called out to me. It has 15 pockets!!! Seriously? 15!?!?!

The charcoal gray color that I would have chosen was $84, but this one in dark indigo was on sale for $69. I can live with indigo, I think. It looks gray doesn't it?

"Go ahead," said Art. "Happy Mother's Day!"

I still didn't want to spend that much. Then I saw where it asked for a promo code? Promo code? Suddenly I remembered my daughter telling me something about looking online for promo codes. I googled TravelSmith promo code and BINGO! There was a 20% Off Any Order promo code. I could hardly believe it. It brought the price down to $55.20! Granted there was a $9.99 shipping charge to Hawaii, but ah well...

It wasn't over though. I had to choose the size! What to do. Sigh. My chest is a S (Small) according to the size chart, but my waist was a M (Medium). Art suggested the M since it might give me more room on the inside pockets. The M could probably fit him too since it looks gender neutral.

And then Art reminded me of the time we were traveling someplace in Europe a long time ago and I'd put my boarding ticket in my dress pocket. I was following him onto a small plane when I panicked and couldn't find my ticket! I had too many pockets! I searched all my winter coat pockets before realizing I'd stuck the ticket into my dress pocket where I could find it easily. Arrrrghhh! Art had already boarded the plane not realizing I was still outside searching for it.

OK... 15 pockets, hunh? Hmmmm...

Let's hope I don't regret this.

POSTSCRIPT: 

Sigh... It arrived AND as I feared, it was too big around the chest. When I'd called them earlier about their return policy, the woman told me that it was FREE shipping for exchanges and that the return shipping label would already be in the package with the vest.

However, I found on the label that came with the vest, that it's free ONLY in the 48 contiguous states. Arrrghhh! I had to pay for postage to send it back, but they'll do the free shipping to send me the exchange.

Well... I hope the Smaller vest will fit or it will have been a disappointment. I don't think I'll buy from Travelsmith again.