Okay, now we are officially in a recession.

So, I'm looking ahead a season for boots. In reality, I can probably only comfortably afford one good pair of boots this coming season so I need to be very selective in what I choose.

Right now, the boots I've found and have liked the best are a grey pair at Nine West for $300. Yeah, I'll repeat that for you: boots at Nine West for $300 hundy dollars. But in all honesty, they'll probably go on sale since I can't imagine that the regular Nine West customer is dropping $300 on any pair of Nine West shoes. Hell, the shoes for $69 go on sale.

But anyways, I checked out the sale at Barneys... OMG. They have so much selection left and the sale has been going on for a couple of weeks. Manolos, Mui Mui, Marc Jacobs, Lanvin, Louboutin... The amount of selection in my size is enough to give me a panic attack. I had to close out the site window immediately, lest I do something stupid and impulsive and order all of them. Normally, all of the big names at 50% off or more don't last very long... it was just this past November that women were getting into fist fights in the Saks' shoe departments during their 70% off sale.

I'm not an economist. But I do know that when women aren't buying fabulous shoes, things must be pretty bad out there.