Good Sales Right Now & Blogging on a Budget: September

A few good sales and coupons going on right now...

GAP: 30% off your purchase online with code GAPCOLOR (Ends 10/8) and 40% select styles in stores

LOFT: 60% off select full-priced pieces online with code TAKE60, and an extra 50% off sale styles (no code needed)

J. Crew Factory:  40% off select styles, online (ends Sunday)

Ann Taylor: 30% off everything with code SALE30

Another month, another Blogging on a Budget!

 September's breakdown.....

Last month, I spent:

$0 on hair

$0 on makeup

$0 on jewelry

$24.94 on clothes (this awesome chambray shirt from Old Navy--review coming soon!)

 

Blogging on a Budget: August

School has started! Fall is here! My cousin got married this weekend and it was beautiful! (and I took a much-needed trip back to California to be there!) I have a million German words to memorize! August is over, and I hadn't posted Blogging on a Budget yet!

Here is my monthly round-up of where I spent my money, August Edition.

This past month, I spent:

$49.10 on clothing (LOFT open knit sweater, green pants, and polka dot shirt, 

helped along with an old gift certificate)

$0 on hair

$0 on makeup

$0 on jewelry

I have a feeling now that fall is here, I'll be spending a lot more on clothing. This CA girl doesn't have any winter boots to speak of! And on that subject, anyone have recommendations for uber-warm but still cute snow/winter boots?

Blogging on a Budget: July

One of my favorite things to see when perusing blogs is how people allocate their money; where they save, where they splurge, what sales they look for, and what they value. It taps into the same peek-inside-someone's-life part of me that absolutely loves seeing inside other people's closets, and of course, other people's blogs in general. (If you are like-minded, I highly recommend immediately checking out ClosetVisit.com to see inside some stylish closets kept by even more stylish ladies.)

In that vein, and in hope of keeping myself both frugal and honest, I've been blogging my monthly spending for the past few months. So!

Here is my breakdown for the month of July. Last month, I spent:

 

$76.45 on clothes

-ASOS skater dress (buy here, restocked in all sizes)

-a pair of comfy Croc flats (buy here)

  $0 on hair

$0 on makeup

$0 on jewelry

 

Hope you are all having a great weekend!

Blogging on a Budget: June

So it turns out a month in which one moves across the country is a month in which one spends a ton of money on things like baggage fares and rent and shipping boxes, and therefore a month in which one spends hardly any money at all on clothes. :) Here is my monthly breakdown for June.

This month, I spent:

$24.99 on clothes (a thrifted skirt and a new straw fedora)

$60 on hair (in that I got a haircut for the first time in a over a year!)

$0 on makeup

$0 on jewelry

Hope you're all enjoying your weekend!

I'm off to Farmers Markets, sunning by the river, a party with friends, and of course memorizing approximately a million new vocab words for a quiz on Friday. :)

Petite Fashion Challenge #16: Summer Wedding

 

This month's challenge was Summer Wedding: Create an outfit for a summer wedding (the dress code is up to you). For bonus points try to make your whole outfit, head to toe, come in under $100! (Or, exclude shoes and accessories to meet the $100 mark.)

Here is my entry:

Dress: Anthropologie (very old, but I remember it being on super-sale for around $60) / Shoes: Target ($24.99) / Clutch: inherited from my Nana / Necklace and Earrings: gifts

My outfit came in for a (estimated, due to the age of the dress) total of $85.00. Hooray for gifted bags and jewelry!

* * * * * *

Here is the list of participants this month (in the order in which they signed up):

Glamorous Petite

Tiny Bits of Nonsense

Contrary Kiwi

Hello, Framboise

Dieting Fashions

Couture Coco

Little Flowers

The Little Dust Princess

Keeyatch

Easy Petite Looks

Katattack2000

The Fashion Firecracker

yoo hoo, anhie boo!

After all, the best things come in small packages...

Jane Squared

Chibi Chic

That's a Pretty Hat

The Petite Fitting Room

Petite Fashions Over 40

Musings of a Cardigan Fiend

Food/Fashion Lovers Anonymous Nationwide
Mix and Match Fashion Style

Phiphi's Blog

Petite Lifestyle

The Small of It

To Brighten My Day

Sew Petite Gal

Just Tututiny

Petite Adventures

Really Renata

LaBelleMel

Snapshots of my Closet

Shorty Stories 

Petite in the City 

The Other Pocket

Diary by Kimberly

A Petite Treat

A Perponderence of Fashion
Really Petite
Petite and Hungry
Extra Petite
KTR Style

 I hope you all enjoyed this challenge; I'm glad I got to think about my wedding look in advance, and can't wait to see what everyone else came up with!

Blogging on a Budget: April

I realized we're well into May and I never put up my spending totals from April!

Well, better late than never....

In the month of April, I spent:

 $76.17 on clothes (one cardigan [pricey but sorely needed to replace

 an older one full of holes] and two blouses)

$0 of makeup

$0 of hair

$0 on jewelry

Hope you're having a great weekend, and happy Mother's Day!

Blogging on a Budget: March

This month, I spent:

$0 on hair products

$0 on makeup

$54.57 on clothing (one top and one dress)

$0 on jewelry

I just got back from a visit to the East Coast to check out my graduate school, so forgive the laspe in posting! More stuff coming soon!

Blogging on a Budget: February

Happy first day of March!

Here's my budget roundup for the month of February:

 

Last month, I spent:

$0 on jewelry

$16.28 on clothing*

$0 on hair

$0 on makeup

Obviously I did not have enough free time last month, or there would have been more shopping. :)

*excluding the two chambray shirts, which will likely be returned

Blogging on a Budget: January

This being the last day of January, it's time to open my checkbook for all to see.

Here is the first installment of 2012's Blogging on a Budget!

This month, I spent:

$21.82 on jewelry

$57.65 on clothing

$0 on hair

$0 on makeup

Happy (almost) February!