Learning some new frugal tips
What’s new in your RSS reader these days? Anything? Are you still reading the same old blogs? I occasionally fall into that rut, and so I’ll often take a spin through the blogroll of one of the blogs I subscribe to, to see what else is out there. And tonight I came across something new that I wanted to share with y’all.
Budgets Are Sexy is a blog I started reading about a month ago, on my last spin through someone’s blogroll. This week I came across a guest post on the blog from Little Miss Fortune, the PF blogger on Glamour magazine’s site. Go on and click over to the guest post she did Budgets Are Sexy, it’s highly entertaining. And the reason I bring it up is because I learned something new from the guest post. She was talking about how to create new outfits simply by accessorizing, and it really struck a chord with me. The new job I started this spring requires me to dress in non-jeans, and because of my debt, I didn’t want to have to go and spend a fortune on a new wardrobe. I had unconsciously started doing what Little Miss Sexy advocates in her tip “Accessorize already, damn it”–I took several similar outfits (short-sleeved blouses and pants) and changed them up by pairing them with different coloured cardigan sweaters, and even a knit vest! The only new thing I bought in those outfits was the knit vest, the rest I already had, which is great. Sure, I’ve picked up the odd new blouse over the summer, but the point is I’ve probably only spend about $50 on three or four different blouses, and when paired with the sweaters and the vest, I’ve got almost two weeks worth of outfits for work! Very cool. Of course the winter is going to be a little more difficult to handle, as I’m not sure if my current roster of pants is going to hold up to a cold, Canadian winter, but I’ll get to that patch of ice when I get to it. (haha)
Seriously though, go check out the guest post, and then keep on reading both Budgets Are Sexy AND Little Miss Fortune, as they’ve always got good things to say. You never know, you might just learn something new.
