Target Fashion & Fun Finds (aka I’m in Heaven)
It ranks right up there with a washer and dryer of my own and having a refrigerator with an ice maker and filtered water dispenser. These seem like mundane highlights unless you have ever run out between loads to find your wet laundry dumped unceremoniously on top of a dryer upon your return or lived with consistently empty ice cube trays and a water pitcher with an expired filter that constantly needed to be refilled.
When I lived in NYC in in the first decade of this millennium it was amazing. However, as a professional shopper as well as as a regular customer, the absence of brick and mortar Targets was keenly felt. The city that had everything was missing a Tar-zhay. The exception was a “pop up” shop which was just a red bullseye mirage for the holidays or a big release of a much coveted Target-high end designer capsule collection. Blink and it’s gone. I ended up moving out of the city when I had my son. There were Targets but they were not 5 minutes away. Not close enough to run over on a whim like I can now. I am positively giddy!
As I locked my car I found myself almost scurrying as I gazed up at the red concentric circles eager to enter this bastion of shopping. It is the call of the suburban retail siren. The opening was actually delayed a week. I pretended I didn’t plan last Sunday around a Target outing and shook it off like the big girl that I am. Last week’s disappointment only heightened this week’s experience of walking into the shiny newness of it all. At first glance I wondered if the store was a little light on inventory because it was new or if they were selling out already. I stopped my random thoughts to focus on the job at hand. What will I be taking home?