Does anyone else besides me think it’s kind of ludicrous that Oprah is all like, “I’m gonna help all those poor starving children in Africa while wearing my $375 Monolos!” I’ll bet you could pay off my house with what that woman has invested in shoes. Now I’m not bagging on Oprah herself, she does [...]
I am the Anti-Oprah
Filed Under: Cheap Thrills, General Rantings, Helpful Information, Humor, Social commentary Tagged With: bargains, dressing well on a budget, fashion on a budget, thrift shopping, thrifting, thrifty living
Make your kid shut the hell up
I don’t shop at Saks Fifth Avenue or Neiman Marcus (although I look like I do, thank you very much) but I can’t imagine that there is a screaming kid in every department there. It seems as though every store I DO go into is equipped with a kid screaming its fool head off for [...]
Filed Under: General Rantings, Helpful Information, Humor, Social commentary Tagged With: manners, shopping, thrift store ettiquette, thrifting
It was dead when I got it
I’m sick and tired of people being all up in someone’s face because they wear fur. I have five fur coats. Yes, five, and I didn’t pay more than $100 for any of them! A couple of them were free, and one I got for $9 at a thrift store because they didn’t know it [...]
Filed Under: Awesome finds, Cheap Thrills, General Rantings, Humor, Social commentary, Vintage Tagged With: bargains, fashion on a budget, fur, Recycling, thrift shopping, thrifting, vintage
Just because you po’ don’t mean you gotta look nasty!
Soap and water is cheap, and so are good clothes if you know where and how to shop. I heard a woman say, “I like nice things, I just could never afford to have them.” Well, I couldn’t afford it either, and I still can’t cause my broke ass has been unemployed for over a [...]
Filed Under: General Rantings, Helpful Information, Humor, Social commentary, Uncategorized Tagged With: budget living, social commentary, thrift shopping, thrifting, vintage, yard sales
Hold the bedbugs, please
My oldest son works in pest control, and he’s on the leading edge of information about bed bugs. Apparently they’re a horror show if they ever get a foothold in your house. They can live for a year without food or water, and they can squeeze themselves into the tiniest cracks in books, cd cases, [...]
Filed Under: Cheap Thrills, General Rantings, Helpful Information, Humor, Social commentary Tagged With: bargains, budget, cheap thrills, frugal living, humor, Recycling, shopping
Fondly Reminiscing
Today I had to pass three of my favorite thrifty haunts as I was doing my errands. In light of my 30 day thrift sto’ fast, I have to avert my eyes and drive on. I can’t deny I’m feeling a little woozy. How soon will the shakes and the hallucinations start? Will I start [...]
Filed Under: Cheap Thrills, General Rantings, Humor, Social commentary Tagged With: binge and purge, kicking the habit, looking fabulous on a budget, thrift store shopping, thrifting
What do Chico’s and Bizarro World have in common?
The first time I ever went into a Chico’s I had no idea that I was entering an alternate universe. I was looking for a pair of white pants, and so I grabbed a size 2 and headed for the dressing room. I came out of the fitting room and said to the gay guy [...]
Filed Under: General Rantings, Helpful Information, Humor, Social commentary Tagged With: shopping, that don't make no kinda sense, thrift store shopping, thrifting
Don’t make me come in there
The thing about thrift stores is that, if they even have dressing rooms at all, there aren’t very many of them. And people, especially the newbies, tend to pile their carts full of clothes, and then proceed to hog the dressing room for an hour while they try on 25 pairs of pants and 40 [...]