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September 2018 Budget

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Between Timmi being here and me having a bunch of birthday gift cards, I went a little nuts with the shopping in September! šŸ˜¬šŸ’ø

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  1. Xhilaration Sleep Sweatshirt (Target): $17 on sale for $12 - gift card = $0

  2. A New Day Skinny Utility Chino Pants (Target): $20 - gift card = $0

  3. Mario Tee (Old Navy): $17 on sale for $7

  4. Space-Print Pocket Tee for Boys (Old Navy): $13  on sale for $8

  5. Amethyst bracelet: $14

  6. Chakra bracelet: $22

  7. Plant tank top: $13

Not pictured:

  1. A New Day V-Neck Cardigan (Target): $23 - gift card = $0

  2. Brash Naomi Block Heel (Payless): $30 on sale for $10

  3. Printed Tulip Short (Primark link to similar): $8 on sale for $2

  4. High-Neck Tank Top (Old Navy): $13 on sale for $3

  5. Blouse (H&M): $18 - gift card = $0

  6. Jorts (H&M): $12 on sale for $7 - gift card = $0

TOTAL: $79

WOW, that Visa gift card and four Target gift cards really paid off! Iā€™m sorry I didnā€™t link to a lot of thingsā€”they were either sold out, or I just couldnā€™t find them online!

Letā€™s start our chat with the plant tank top because it makes me so happy! It was such a random findā€”Timmi and I spotted it in a co-op two blocks from my therapistā€™s office! I very much associate plants with Timmi (peep her IG to see why!), so itā€™s really the perfect thing to remind me of her. Actually, all of the things I bought when she was here make me smile and have been great reminders of how much fun we had. She actually bought the bracelets for me because I had to sprint off to therapy! And she likes to play with gender constructs in fashion, so she urged me to go out of my comfort zone and explore the boysā€™ and menā€™s sections at Old Navy, leading me to the satellite t-shirt! (As we saw with that lunar tank top last month, Iā€™m really into a space vibe these days!) šŸš€

As you might have seen on my Insta Stories this past weekend, I went HAM with four of my Target gift cards! Iā€™ve been looking for olive pants foreverrr, so I was pumped to finally find a pair that were the right color and fit pretty well! (I feel like I must have weird proportions because pants are often snug in the legs and kind of loose in the waist? Is this a typical thing?) I kept on this green theme with my new cardigan too. Almost all of my cardigans are grey or blackā€”I needed some color! And the sweatshirt is super-soft and a little bit bat-wingy (surely a technical term), which is a look that Iā€™m into (šŸ¤·šŸ¼ā€ā™€ļø) and makes it a little different from my other sweatshirts.

Lastly, I had been on a quest to get new shorts this summer but only found one pair I liked... until those fall sales started! šŸ’ƒ I found both pairs of shorts above on my shopping trip for a wedding dress and shoes that was otherwise a bustā€”which is why I ended up buying the Payless shoes. I think they could work with any of the dresses I currently have, and itā€™s seeming likely that Iā€™m just going to wear one of those to the wedding. Plus, $10 is about all I ever want to spend on dress-up shoes, haha!

Did you find anything fun this month?