Frugal Fancy-Pants: Early November

EXHIBIT A: 

Wear this outfit when the sun breaks through and you frantically try to prepare the ground for garlic (yet not so frantically that you can't take a Frugal Fancy-pants snapshot).

Red shirt: dime at a rummage sale

GARY JOHNSON FOR PRESIDENT sweatshirt: a gift from my good chum Rebecca

Jeans: dime at a rummage sale

Checked boots: hand-me-downs

Optional accessories: 

Dead sunflowers: free

Tiller: borrowed from my mom who borrowed it from Uncle David

The funny thing about these pictures is that once the tiller started, it took me 2 or 3 hours longer to till than it should have because the ground was too mucky, and then it was too dark to plant.

I decided to wait until the ground dried up a bit, which was GENIUS, because 2 weeks later, the ground still looked like this.

On to EXHIBIT B, anyway!


EXHIBIT B:

Carefully step into the driest edge of the garden after church so you don't sink before Millie snaps the picture.

And then squint like a supermodel while she takes the second.

Black sweater: dime from a rummage sale

Sparkly dress: hand-me-down

Black belt: nickel from a rummage sale

Black underslip: borrowed from Millie

Black heels: dime from a rummage sale

Quartz earrings: hand-me-downs

Elephant bracelet: borrowed from Annika

Optional accessory: Mud and muck-- free and plentiful

Total cost of outfit: about 25 cents

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