Today was awesome. I mean, it would have been even more awesome if I had a few hundred dollars lying around to go shopping with … but I work with what I’ve got. And I’ll show you how.

Pictured below is a dress I found on sale at Stage for $9.99.

On my way to the checkout, I found these earrings for $3.60. I mean seriously, they might as well give stuff away. I got an entire outfit for under $15! 

Around 2 pm I started getting lonely so I stopped by my parent’s house. They gave me a gift. It says “I childproofed my house … but they still get in.”

And finally, I turned my hair orange. This was NOT worth the $12 I paid for boxed hair dye. I’m hoping I can go to a salon after next week and actually get a real hair cut and color. This hasn’t happened in over 6 months. Maybe more. I honestly can’t recall, and that alone is a serious problem.

Fortunately there are a lot of blondes out there rocking this look so at least I’m in good bad poor decision-like company.