The Nordstrom Anniversary Sale has arrived! Check out my favorites below!
Believe it or not this is the first year I have participated in early access. With my kids home I had planned on shopping online, but Nordstrom.com was having all kinds of technical issues Thursday morning. Using the Nordstrom app I reserved a few things online, packed up two of my kiddos (the third was at camp) and headed to Nordstrom. Probably not the smartest choice, but when you love to shop, you do what you’ve got to do!
The store was packed! With hour long waits in the dressing rooms and 20-30 minute waits in the shoe department, there was no way my nine and two year olds were going to make it that long. I came prepared with snacks for my toddler and Minecraft for my nine year old. Screen time is okay at the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale! Also ended up trying on several of my items in front of a mirror in the middle of the store along with some friends. If you have ever wondered, yes, you can try on jeans over jeans… 😉 In the end I was pretty impressed with how well my kids actually did. As a reward for hanging with mom all morning, I took them to See’s Candy afterwards. Best mom ever!!
I did learn a few things this first time around though, and will definitely do some things differently next year at the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale.
Tips For Next Year
- Hop online right when the early access sale goes live, even if that means setting my alarm for the wee hours of the morning…I waited until around 6am and by the time I tried to order, Nordstrom.com was having technical issues.
- Hire a babysitter if shopping in store. Why did I not think of this before?? I ran into two of my girlfriends at the sale who did this – genius!!
- Take advantage of the other dressing room locations. Despite the hour long wait at one dressing room, I waltzed right into another dressing room across the store to quickly try on a couple things that I couldn’t in the middle of the store.
Nordstrom Anniversary Favorites
Below are my favorite finds from the sale. Please note that these did not all come home with me. 😉 I bought a few things and am debating a couple more items as well. It can be overwhelming going through all of the sale items! Since I actually love doing it, I thought it would be fun to share my favorites with you in case it helps you out! Most of my picks below are mom friendly, but still super cute! I also tried to keep most things under $100. Harder with the shoes and a few of the jeans, but there are some good deals in these picks as well.
Denim
Shoes
Sweaters
Tops
Dresses
Jackets
Most of these come in other colors besides black too!
Activewear
Sleepwear
Jewelry
Whew! Thanks for sticking with me! Lots of fun finds this year at the Anniversary Sale. Would love to hear about your favorites if you are shopping early access this week! Let me know if you have any questions. I will be posting a few other finds for kids, men, and home soon!
I love that buffalo print top! And pretty much everything else you shared! lol
Great pics! I have been checking out the sale myself!
Nordstrom is my weakness. Great finds I haven’t done an annivasary sale with them in a while but this made me want to check them out especially for those Hunter rain boots I need them because I live in Washington. LOL
I’ve never shopped the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale before, but these are all so cute! I didn’t know they have clothes for the next season in the sale. I love the first pair of madewell jeans & ALL of the leather jackets.
I didn’t grow up with a Nordstrom nearby so I rarely shopped there because I wasn’t familiar with it. I didn’t know this was going on.Have fun!
Great picks!!
Ahhhhh, so many good picks here!! I wish I wasn’t huge and pregnant right now, otherwise, I’d be all over some of these!!
Hey Brunette 🙂 Your adventure just reminded me my two similar shopping situations.
First one was opening TK Maxx in Cracow. Because of big discounts, getting to the changing room was actually miracle. People were buying tons of clothes, shoes etc… And afterwards Allegro (Polish Amazon) was full of T-shirts, jeans, dresses from TK Maxx for sale 😉 Fortunately, I was still childless that time.
Other one (my Baby was already born) was Black Friday in one of the shopping malls. We had the days off with my Husband, so we could come in the morning. The shopping was successful, afterwards we are something (that thing already took time) and we decided to get back home… We’ve stucked in a big traffic jam 😉
That’s why I rather avoid going with my Baby to those big deal days. If anyone is home, I go alone. If not, I go another day when the discounts are still available, but they’re much less people 🙂
I love that Madewell jacket and all the jewelry!!
One of my favorite times of the year. I’m usually attempting to wind down on Christmas shopping in the next few weeks (we have 5 November birthdays and 3 December birthdays in my immediate family, so we have to wrap up the shopping early to help with budgeting and avoiding the crowds), so this sale always comes in way handy for that. I bought some items for my son, daughter, and even me on Friday.
Love your story with the kids! I also love the jeans you picked!
I feel like it would be totally overwhelming, but also such great deals!!
It definitely seems overwhelming at first, but I find it so much fun to dig through all of the items in search of those deals!
I’m in love with this sale, so much cute stuff! Love all your picks, now time to shop
Thank you Misty! Have fun shopping! I keep going back to look at things I missed the first time around!
Omg, I cannot wait to shop this sale!! Those booties are so cute! 🙂
There are always so many cute shoes in the Anniversary Sale. So hard to narrow it down!
I love your picks from the sale! There are so many cute pieces!
xo Emily,
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Thank you Emily! So many cute finds! I keep going back to look for more! 😉