o-freaking-m-g! I have lost track of how much I’ve diddled away this month.
Father forgive me, for I have spent…
- On shoes, shoes, and somewhat more shoes
- On clothes
- On more clothes
- On six expensive seat cushions from Pier 1 (20% off ludicrously expensive is still too expensive
- On four exceptionally kewl crackly wine glasses from Pier 1 (nothing off…pretty good price to start with, but since I’d already spent my worldly goods on the above, too much)
- On Shane the God of Hair Stylists, who charges an amount one would expect a Greek divinity to charge
- On a sander (not very pricey, but needed only for one, count it 1, project) to refurbish the chairs upon which the expensive seat cushions are to reside
- On restaurant meals of several degrees of extravagance
- On a lifetime supply of Maker’s Mark
- On several cans of spray paint with which to refurbish the chairs (see above)
- On an area rug that made the back room look REALLY nice until the puppy (promptly!) chewed it up
Some of this stuff, I figured oh wtf! I’ve got it in savings, in the tax refund. Tra la, tra la!
Some of it, I figured nothing. Just did it.
The AMEX bill arrived this morning. I’m scared to open it…
I’m as frugal as the next gal, more frugal than a lot, but I’m really happy to see you treat yourself.
Life is short, there must be beauty in it also.
Looks like you and I were bitten by the spending bug at the same time. Though I am going to return just about everything after all since it turns out nothing fits me these days and I refuse to get things tailored to my odd current size. Still, I just know more shopping will happen in the quest to get one nice dress for an event later this year.
Argh! I recall it seemed to take FOREVER to get back down to a normal size. About three or four months after the kid was born, nothing would do but what I had to replace some of the tired maternity clothes. Almost fainted — they tried to put me into 14s and 16s…I’d been wearing 6s and 8s before the pregnancy. Eventually the bod’ returned to something like normal, but it took a lot longer than I expected.
Try looking at upscale consignment shops for interim things that don’t cost much and might even be re-consigned after you can fit back into your real size. We didn’t have those back in the Day, unfortunately. Something like My Sister’s Closet or Buffalo Exchange would have been a godsend…