Frugal, Bland Fancy-Pants: End of October

EXHIBIT A: 

Wear this outfit while burning the old piano that your boys demolished.

Black long-sleeved tee: a dime at a rummage sale

Green fleece sweatshirt: a dime at a rummage sale

Ill-fitting jeans: a dime at a rummage sale

Green Nike sneakers: a dime at a rummage sale

Weldo: free and lovingly knit by your daughter to replace Waldo (whom she threw away in a tiff)

Optional accessories: 

-a plastic bucket filled with water in case the flames, as they often do, get out of hand-- free from Price Chopper's bakery
-metal pole from the chicken coop to poke the flames and shove stuff around-- free from the chicken coop

Total: cost of outfit-- about 40 cents

EXHIBIT B:

Wear this outfit to church when you are feeling particularly prim and schoolmarmish. 

Cream shirt: a dime at a rummage sale (and now sitting in a donation bag out in the van)

Gray skirt: a dime at a rummage sale

Gray heels: $2-something on clearance at Target quite a few years ago

Optional accessories:

-elephant bracelet: borrowed from Annika

- sparkly earrings: on clearance with a set of others; about 5 cents

-classy, plastic bucket still hanging around: free 

Total cost of outfit: about 3 dollars

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