Lush: Boxing Day Mayhem

I have been an avid fan of Lush for a few years now and if you know anything about Lush then you know that the biggest day of the year is Boxing Day. Their Boxing Day Sale has items typically from their Halloween and Christmas collections on sale for 50% off. Now if you follow me on any of my social media accounts then you know I am obsessed with Lush and how can I not take advantage of the sale? 

This year though things were a little bit different. I'm not sure why but they keep pushing us to use their app to make purchases. At first, it was using the app for early access to some of their new collections and collaborations but for Boxing Day you could only use the app to make an order on their items marked down. I kid you not, Christmas day I kept scrolling social media and Reddit to see if anyone knew what time the sale would start and no one was able to say what time. That day as well every time I would go to the app I would get an error message, essentially, saying there's an issue with the server and too many people going to the app...this is where I start losing my patience and annoyance levels rise through the roof. 

Lush wanted us to use the app for purchases to partake in the sale but yet their app couldn't handle that much traffic? I wasn't sure what to think but I damn well knew that this was a bad sign for what was to come for the sale. The day of I woke up early at 6 am and got the same error message on the app. When I finally was able to get through there wasn't even a section for the sale. The items included for the sale were scattered all over the app. Once I was able to grab a good amount of items I went to checkout and when I tried to proceed to payment it was saying that items were out of stock but when I went back to my cart it didn't say which items were out of stock. 

Needless to say my morning was beyond frustrating and so at 7 am I woke my boyfriend up and told him we're going to the closest Lush shop to us...it's over an hour away. My boyfriend being the amazing man that he is got quickly dressed and we were off to Lush. This is where he gets major props from me because as soon as we got to the store he told me to go wild and just to hand him anything I want. This man carried so many gift sets including this years advent calendar and a super packed basket full of lush goodies. 

I included a couple pictures of what I purchased and am beyond happy I went in store and scored some amazing items! I bought the advent calendar, the snow fairy set and a Halloween set that includes a drawstring kittycat bag. I also bought some of their large candles, a huge snow fairy roll (snow fairy is one of my favourite Christmas scents) and I also bought a bunch of bath bomb and bubble bars. 

I am extremely fortunate that I had the means to be able to drive in and go in store to buy these items because not all of us are able to go in store or even have one near them. I hope that Lush learns from this years BS and actually improve their app so next year won't be absolute mayhem.