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"Shopping this time of year can tend to make anyone feel like a black belt bargain hunter--the discounts are so deep, things are practically free! But while there are some amazing deals to be had out there (we&amp;#x27;ve rounded up the best post-holiday sales here), you must keep one important thing in mind... If it doesn&amp;#x27;t fit, it&amp;#x27;s no bargain at all! Today&amp;#x27;s Daily Mail reports that the average shopper blows $110 on clothes that don&amp;#x27;t fit, simply because they&amp;#x27;re on sale. With good intentions in the diet department at an all-time high in the new year, 27% of women admitted that they&amp;#x27;ll buy something a size too small and hope to fit into it--though most never will. Sign up for our style newsletter and get the best of our fashion blog, delivered straight to your inbox! I confess, I&amp;#x27;ve been known to squeeze my size six foot into a five-and-a-half shoe if it&amp;#x27;s on sale, so this doesn&amp;#x27;t sound so totally out there to me. Do any of you have a few items lurking in the back of your closet that you bought on sale a size or two down? Have you ever actually worn any of them? Do you tend to be more free-spending when stuff is on sale? What are your biggest regrets of sale purchases? Share! PLUS... - Hot sales alert! It&amp;#x27;s the best time of year to shop for... AND! - 7 easy New Year&amp;#x27;s resolutions you can actually keep What&amp;#x27;s With All the Spam in the Comments Section? Sick of all those annoying ads in the comments section lately? So are we! We police the site regularly and delete spam as soon as we can, but recently, the volume of spam has increased dramatically. We&amp;#x27;re working on a way to block them permanently, so please bear with us, and know that we&amp;#x27;re as eager as you are to get read of these pests. Meanwhile, please continue to use the Report Abuse button to flag spam--it really does help!-- and continue to leave your brilliant feedback below. If you have any urgent questions about the spam, please contact us. Can&amp;#x27;t get enough STF? Follow us on Twitter! Latest Tweets!Follow us on Twitter!jQuery(&amp;quot;.blog-tweets&amp;quot;).tweet({username:[&amp;quot;glamour_fashion&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;cindi_leive&amp;quot;], count: 3}); "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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