Frugal Fancy-pants...Again!
If you're new and wonder at this post, wonder no more.
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Here's another shabbily photographed Fancy-pants! This time, we staked out a quiet part of the woods to catch a glimpse of this rare and timid creature.
Exhibit A:
Suggestion: Wear this outfit to church on a sweltering day. Twenty minutes into the Lord's Service, wish that you could strip to just a diaper like Zeke but quickly give the idea up as impractical.
-Faux pearls: free (vintage strand from Mopsy; a high school gift)
-Polka dot dress: $3.79 (purchased at 90+ percent clearance from Kohl's when you were supposed to be shopping for Christmas gifts for other people)
-Vintage black belt: 5 cents (rummage bag sale)
-Black skirt: 5 cents (rummage bag sale)
-Black wedge heels: 10 cents (rummage bag sale)
Total cost of outfit: about $4.00.
Optional accessories:
-a few leaves, just because the woods is full of them
-a goofy expression, just because your face is full of them
Exhibit B:
Suggestion: Wear this outfit when a warm April thaw settles in for a week, and you have to plug all the maple tree taps.
-tank top: free (hand-me-down)
-gray long-sleeved tee: 5 cents (rummage bag sale)
-gray long john shirt: free (gift)
-black puffy vest: free (hand-me-down)
-jeans: 10 cents (rummage sale)
-rag-tag rubbers: free (nephew Ethan left them behind when he went to Alaska)
Total cost of outfit: about 15 cents
Optional accessories:
-dowels, for aforementioned plugging
-a hand saw
-a hammer
-a jump rope on which to string a bunch of plastic jugs
Side-by-side comparison:
Wow. What a difference a few months makes in the woods!
5 comments :
These blog posts, I think, are the most jealous inducing of all your posts.
#1- because you look stunning in your fancy pants.
#2- because you pay, incredibly, PENNIES to look so good. (Eat your heart out, Modern America.)
#3- because you are confident and comfortable enough in your own skin to unflinchingly post robe and rubbers pictures.
I really really love this dress. But I totally got ya when you talked about stripping down. Yes, if only sin hadn't entered the world...
Well, now.
Since you, faithful commenter that you are, are the only one to give feedback, and since this post has a negative effect, perhaps it's high time to resign Ye Olde Fancypants posts.
Maybe I'll start a new segment more in keeping with reality. I'll call it "Stingy Grubbypants."
It mayn't have the same ring, but I'm seriously contemplating it.
No way! You'd better not! That would be TRAGIC.
What NEEDS to happen, is I need to go to church rummage sales at BAGSALE time!
Wait! i thought you said you did not wear pink?! Is that a pale pink behind the polka dots, me thinks?!
No, no, no.
It's actually a pale tannish-beige color. Drab, yes, but not pink. :)
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