Thrifty Chic Shop: By a Liberian Girl

ThriftI found a fascinating blog (whose owner I have now dubbed "Liberian Girl"- RIP MJ) that I thought worth a visit if perhaps you have issues of loving retail more than you should and never having enough to spend on it. Perhaps she will inspire you to change your wayward ways. Her name is C Agatha and  she has fantastic stuff on her blog, I'm sure at much better prices than you would find  elsewhere.

I nearly choked on my coffee when I read about her buying stuff that she never wears or uses. It sounded far too familiar for comfort and I only have to walk 10 or so feet for evidence of what she's talking about. Kudos to her for making this turn around.
As I and my friends and millions of other women know, its haaaarrrd work to nip the retail therapy urge in the bud because that's generally when you really need it and you reckon you are in control. Its hard because as any addict worth their salt, we call it nice things like retail therapy instead of what it is. The anti-wealth goblin. There's nothing therapeutic about it all in the long run. But we don't see it because the label we've assigned it makes me think of "how much I'm saving" on possible shrinks, expensive divorces, hospitals and so forth. As a result I normally just close my eyes and hope that the long run will indeed be a very very long way off......to the extent that I should have recovered before it gets here. Mmmhhh and yet it always seems to catch up with me before recovery somehow.
I must say though that I have also accepted that at this stage self indulgence is as important as judicious spending so the magic words are balance, balance and more balance - if you can be any more balanced than the first two. I could never be happy with having to only eat in or only buy on major sales and thrift stores and never enjoying the good things in life but I fully get and agree with her point about doing it wisely ergo this post. Some of her suggetions I follow "indirectly", like I visit malls on big occasions such as when I realise that if I don't do something then my kids will be called "don't touch my ankles" because their long pants have ambitions of regressing to three quater affairs. And then when I do succumb to this household obligation all hell brakes loose. Imagine if I had not managed to stop visiting stores everyday as previously done.

I hope this does influence someone to start using their financial Achilles heels as a means of generating income, that is actually my whole point of this soliloquies. It's exactly what I'm in the process of doing these days. No point in living off the things you don't love (such as a dreadful current job) and leaving the ones you do for after you kick the proverbial bucket. Its too late then as we all know....

So, happy thrifting or whatever you'll decide to embark on to mark your independence and (as Kimora would say) life on the Fab Lane (yes I heard her say that once and I do think she's hotter than hot but that Phat stuff is definately not .....that's another story for another post..

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