Could've, Would've, Should've...

Today I want to talk about what I call Inverse Shopper's Remorse.  Sometimes I suffer from not liking something I've bought, but today I have been regretting not buying something I saw.  
Enter Saks online sale section.  One pair of these lovelies popped up.  What do you know? They were just my size: 

Gryson Varick Mixed Media Boots, in a lovely shade of dark grey.  Sigh. I added to cart.  Logged on.  Went through the checkout process. Wait.  Almost.  Right up until that part where you actually have to type your credit card number in.  I choked.  And closed the browser window. And proceeded to rock back and forth in my chair.  
See, 60% off of $700 is still a lot of money, so I was hesitant to pull the trigger.  But, on second thought, what was I thinking?  I've been wanting a pair of boots this winter.  Believe it or not, I haven't bought any boots this season (except the Uggs I got on sale at neimans but those are going back).  
These are exactly the pair of boots I want - not too high, not too "platformy", a beautiful color, a heel not too dainty and not too thick, and just enough detail to make them interesting.  Amazing quality, great design, supple leather.  Easily returnable too, in case they happened to not work for some odd reason.

And they were:
SIXTY
PERCENT
OFF. 

Random fact, in case you didn't know - Joy Gryson used to work at Marc Jacobs and is responsible for bag creations such as the beautiful & iconic Sophia, which I happen to own in a lovely rose color circa 2005.  Since I happen to love most things Marc, I also happen to love most things Gryson.  And how cool is that there was a Target line? 
Needless to say, by the time I decided to go for it, it was too late.  Bye bye, lovelies.  I'm sure someone will be very happy to have you. I suppose it happens to all of us, we all have the ones that got away.  I have since found out that not many stores carry these boots. Given I was pretty much out of the fashion circuit for the last year (timeline roughly equivalent to the time period I was frantically choosing, buying and moving into a house), I have no idea what season they were made.  Double sigh.  I will continue to stalk Saks in case someone happens to return another pair.
Wish me luck.