Budgeting Bloggers: July

July 2015 will go down in history as the month I bought 3 pink midi skirts. Who buys 3 pink midi skirts in one month? Cher from Clueless maybe, or Becky Bloomwood from the Confessions of a Shopaholic series. But real people? Just me probably. What can I say? July is a great month for sales. The stores are getting ready for fall already, but the weather is just starting to heat up so I’ll actually have plenty of time to enjoy all these spring/summer pieces. See, it was all part of my plan.

My Budget

• ~$664 (starting budget of $150 plus $514 carried over from last month)
• ~$204 (blog income)

       = $868

What I Bought (pictured above starting top left)

• ~$141 on colorblock sweater, snake print wedges, white lace inset top, yellow eyelet dress, pink stone cuff, and ring set from Ann Taylor (total orig. $522…I’M AMAZING…or more specifically, that 70% off flash sale was amazing and I made good use of it)
• ~$20 on an army green cargo vest from Target (it may or may not be from the children’s department)
• ~$97 on a pink print midi skirt and 2 sweaters from J. Crew Factory (total orig. $190…I already had 2 other colors of this sweater and I love them so I snagged 2 more during a half-off, free shipping sale)
• ~$82 on a pink silk midi skirt and white striped dress from Madewell (total orig. $208)
• ~$63 on an embroidered shirt (it has little hens on it!), striped shirtdress, floral midi dress, and a third pink midi skirt (total orig. $303…another epic flash sale that let me get a few things I’d been eyeing since May)

       = $403 (total retail value $1243…yes, I’m amazing)

That leaves $465 left over, although “left over” is a little misleading. In reality, I’ve spent a few hundred bucks on my wonderful, magical dressing room in my new house. It’s almost done – I just need a rug and curtains but I’m having trouble finding what I want. I optimistically thought I would have already done a whole post revealing said wonderful, magical dressing room and laying out my decorating/remodeling budget buuuuut you know how it goes. I really will finish it soon (next month! it’s in writing now!) and show you all pics on the blog, but it might not be a budget post. I haven’t done a great job of keeping track of what I’ve spent because it’s been spread over a couple months and I didn’t keep track of all my receipts during the moving process. Maybe I’ll just start with a clean slate budget-wise for August and call it a day.

What I Received

• ~Kendra Scott necklace courtesy of Rocksbox (there’s still time to try out Rocksbox free for a month with my super special code sarahsreallifexoxo)
• ~Navy bucket bag courtesy of Shopbop
• ~Black and white statement necklace courtesy of Happiness Boutique

Linking up with Fran and the other Budgeting Bloggers!