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Sibilia jewelry by Argentinian designer Fenanda Sibilia. Copper and other metals are used as her base material having some painted with enamel. These are the signature of her designs making each piece a work of art.

Summer has just started, and summer sale season is already on its way. Recently, I received sale alerts from Saks, Neiman Marcus and many other boutiques. Generally, the selected sale items are up to 30-40% off. No complaints there!

When you pay for something full price, you should be very, very selective. In this economy, big department stores must compete hard for your business, so the season for full price items grows ever shorter. These days, it’s easy to wait until something goes on sale to buy it.

There are a few circumstances when my soul doesn’t cry after I’ve bought something full price. Maybe it’s an item so rare I may never see one like it again. Or maybe I urgently need a change of dress for a job interview or a red hot date that just came up. Sometimes I buy things full-priced when I’m absolutely certain it will never go on sale before it sells out of stock. Those are all worthy reasons to pay full price. Unless you are a Paris Hilton-type with bottomless wallets who think money is just fancy paper you exchange for presents, I submit that we should all live by a simple rule: wait a while and purchase items only when they go on sale.

Of course, that’s not to say that all things bought on sale are the best. Sometimes we take this “mostly-buy-on-sale” rule too far and convince ourselves to buy on sale things that we might never otherwise buy. We pay for something we do not need at all but buy it anyway only because it’s cheaper than usual. Sometimes I catch myself and think, “DON’T DO THIS!” It’s a great way to waste money buying needless things, but what else does it do for me except pad the other cloths hanging in my closet? This sort of buying leads to closets full of nothing to wear.