F&F Sales: The Pre-Sale Advantage

F&F sale season is coming up fast.  If you've ever been to a department store's F&F sale, you know that it's chaos.  Women turn into maniacs searching for items to buy.  And plenty of women show up.  So it's a sea of maniacs and you're struggling to stay afloat.  To avoid F&F craziness and shop in a more civilized manner, take advantage of pre-sales.   Departments stores will conduct pre-sales usually several days or a week before their actual F&F sale.  What does this mean for you?  This means you can purchase your items before the F&F sale at sale prices.  But it also means that you can't take the items home with you that day.  You will need to either go back to pick up your items (or have them ship the items to you) during the F&F sale.  THE advantage of pre-sales is that there's a better/greater selection of merchandise.  Those shoes you've been drooling over?  They may not be there when you go during the F&F sale.  A savvier shopper did a pre-sale on them.