HOW TO SURVIVE A SAMPLE SALE

I love sample sales. I get a little tingle of excitement when I receive an email from companies that I love but can't usually afford (i.e. I'm too much of a cheapskate to spend more than £20 on anything) telling me they're having a sample sale, and recently my inbox contained one of these emails from one of my favourite brands; AQ/AQ. So, after trying desperately to find a time I wasn't working/at uni/eating, I headed over to The Old Truman Brewery just off Brick Lane to see what this sale had to offer me. The Old Truman is the most common place in London to hold sample sales (there's pretty much always something going on) and I have been to at least 5 sales there. So, having some sort of experience in the sample sale area, I have decided to put together this list of things you need to know if you're going to be braving a sale.

The queue outside the sale - AQ/AQ on Instagram