Category: Budgeting Bloggers

Budgeting Bloggers: September

 

September Budget Breakdown

Who has two thumbs and is ready for fall? This girl. (I’m pointing at myself with my thumbs now. You get it.) Thanks to a better-than-average blog income, Labor Day sales, leftover birthday gift cards, and lots of strategy, I came away with a pretty amazing haul this month, and it wasn’t just crappy summer leftovers.

Almost as impressive is the fact that I could have spent more, and I didn’t. As you’re about to find out, I got a ton of stuff from Loft in September. The first order was during a flash sale, and I earned 3 $25 cash cards to use later in the month. Fast forward a week, and I went into a Loft store to try on some new arrivals, and I used a $20 rewards card and a $40 gift card to get a couple tops. I ended up spending forever in the store because there was some weird glitch with my gift card, so they sent me home with 4 more $25 cash cards to apologize! I made notes of what I wanted to get once it was time to redeem my cash cards (actual notes in my iPhone – I don’t mess around when it comes to shopping). When the time came, I was able to grab a few more things I really loved that added up to about $200, but took them home for half thanks to 4 of those coupons. I actually went back to Loft over the weekend to use my remaining 3 coupons, but I didn’t find anything that I HAD to have. I went to a couple other stores while I was at the mall this weekend (again, sales/coupons drew me in), but I came out empty-handed.

So that’s your lesson for this month: just because there’s a sale or you have a coupon doesn’t mean you have to use it. If you get a discount on something you wouldn’t have wanted to buy already, then you’re not saving money. Speaking of money, let’s look at what pretty stuff my money bought this month…

My Budget

  • ~$218 (normal $150 monthly budget plus $68 carried over from August)
  • ~$603 (blog income)

       = $821 to go toward filling my dressing room (the must-see post from last week)

What I Spent (items pictured above, starting top left)

       = $718 ($103 under budget, and got $1400+ worth of fall-ready fashion!)

What I Received

  • ~another month of my Rocksbox subscription; my favorite piece was this set of Kendra Scott studs!

Want to be inspired by other budgeting bloggers? Check out Franish.

Budget…um…Birthdaying Bloggers: August

This is normally the time of the month where I share how far I managed to stretch my clothing budget for the month. I tell you how I added up what I could spend, show you all the stuff I got, and reveal exactly how much I spent on it. Well, here’s the thing: this month is special. #1 I had more blog income than normal (go me!). #2 I got birthday presents of clothes, gift cards, and cash with which to go shopping. #3 I’m going on vacation so soon and I still have to finish packing so I don’t have time to do my usual breakdown. #4 Since it was my birthday month I just bought whatever I wanted.

So instead of all my usual detailed accounting, I’m just going to share my favorite things I added to my closet one way or another this month. For the record, I was still under budget 🙂

 

August Favorites

 

Yellow Dress (on sale, multiple colors) // Burgundy Jacket (multiple colors) // Gray Watch (on sale) // Yellow Sunglasses // Polka Dot Pumps (on sale, multiple colors) // Teal Bag // Tassel Earrings (other colors) // Pink & Yellow Skirt (on sale) // Fringe Sandals

 I’m linking up with the Budgeting Bloggers at Franish as usual! Hopefully they don’t kick me out for half-assing it this month. I think they’ll forgive me.