An honest look at family finances
18 Nov
I just bought shoes against my will. Grrr… I knew this would happen. This is why I don’t allow myself to shop for clothes. Here I am giving myself permission to spend $20 a month on clothes and instead I’ve now spent $82. It’s money I would have spent on something else, probably on the kids, so I guess it’s not a big deal, yet. But see… this is why I stay away from clothes in the first place. And then my wardrobe ends up looking like I shop at Goodwill, while blindfolded. (Just kidding. It isn’t that bad.)
It started innocently enough. My husband was watching football and I was sitting next to him on my laptop. I was bored and Stumbling site after site. Then I found this site that has all the Amazon markdown stuff laid out so nicely. Might as well see what they have for 90% off, right? I mean, Christmas is coming. Oddly enough I didn’t browse anything that would make good gifts. Only stuff for myself.
Ok, but here they are… my new shoes. I got the “desert” colored ones. They are half off. In my defense they really are a good deal and I was afraid if I waited til next month my size would be sold out. I was kinda nervous about buying shoes online. A picture might be worth a thousand words… but it doesn’t tell you if those shoes look nice with your favorite jeans. You know what I’m sayin’? So I went to the store to try on similar ones, just too see if the size was right and if I really do like that style. And guess what? They had the exact shoe at the store. Same color and everything. So that was cool. And they were $60 in person. So I came straight home and ordered them.
But that’s it for a while! Nothing new until January at least. Pinky swear.
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6 Responses for "I just bought some shoes"
I really think you have to give yourself a clothing allowance that you could realistically stick to. Giving myself unrealistic budget numbers is a sure fire way for me not to stick with my budget. YMMV
Yup. And then you go on a $1500 bender spending an insane amount of money in 2 weekends.
(oh and that was to agree with Anon above)
lol… I can’t imagine myself going on a financial bender. But now I see why your Fabulously Broke. ha ha.
I totally agree with putting realistic numbers in the budget. The problem is that I thought $20 was a realistic number. lol I mean, up til now the number was $0 and I managed.
I love the shoes! They are cute. And shoes are something money should be spent on. You wear them all the time.
Hi Ashley,
You are hilarious. Maybe I’m laughing because this happens to me all of the time. One of my weaknesses is techbargains.com. You can never have too many gadgets right? Most pants have only two pockets but my cargo pants have 8:) So in theory I can carry 8 pieces of electronics around at any given time.
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