Tag: budgets
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For Brides on a Budget
Over the past few years more and more of my friends have been getting married. And if there’s one thing I’ve learned from listening to their stories, it’s this: everything is more expensive when it’s for a wedding. A recently engaged friend looked at a venue where renting the space for a photo shoot cost…
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The Fashion Food Pyramid
You’re familiar with this, right? The food pyramid provides guidelines for how to make sure you eat a balanced diet. Thinking about some of the purchases I made last year, I realized there were things I could do to better balance my shopping habits. So I made my own pyramid. Absolutely: items bought on sale,…
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Calculating Fashion
*This piece first appeared on the blog Pretty and Poor as a guest post. I have reposted it here, along with an update at the end. Long before I had a fashion blog I had a critical inner fashionista, and she manifested herself in my now-longstanding fabric-to-price ratio. From the time that my mother began…
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Shopping Cleanse Update: Living to tell the tale
As my three month shopping cleanse winds down I’ve begun to reflect on what, if anything, I’ve learned. There’s one lesson that stands out to me the most: I’m terrible at chronicling my habits, challenges, and desires. I posted about them here and there, but the meat of my cleanse happened offline – and stayed…