It’s funny as a kid I despised the fact that I thought our family was poor. (We really weren’t – just middle class.) But my mother was always saying that we couldn’t afford things so I believed that we were poor. I’m sure I repeat the mantra to my children although I try very hard not to use that verbage. I prefer to say that I choose not to spend our money in that way. The truth is that most of us can “afford” quite a bit. If there is something that we really want we can generally skrimp and save to get it.
Since I am the breadwinner in a one income family I have to be a little more ummm shall we say creative in how we spend our money. After the household expenses, and gymnastics and karate lessons, student loans and FOOD oh my goodness our family goes through a lot of food but I digress…..the point is that we don’t have much discretionary income left to spend on clothing, entertainment etc. This could pose a problem for me because I like nice things, and I like to stay fashionably current. The blogosphere came to my rescue.
I have been so inspired by many of the great bloggers out there who are thrifty and I started about a year or so ago attempting to thrift new outfits or repurpose old ones to keep them current. So for my first thrifty thursday post here is an outfit that was mostly thrifted or bought on thecheap. What do you think?
Pants – $5 thrifted May 2010
Shoes – $2.99 thrifted May 2009
Shirt – $3.00 Walmart clearance fall 2008
Cardi – I think this was a handme down from my mom but I can’t remember : (
Belt – came with skirt on clearance at JC Pennys for $8.77 Oct 2010
necklace – lia sophia $15 as a hostess item
Earrings – lia sophia free with hostess credit
Melissa has a great sense of fashion. Very classy woman!
Comment by kristin — October 29, 2010 @ 4:40 am |