Fall begins in 21 days, but who's counting? While Tennessee weather can go from grueling heat for months on end to freezing weather almost overnight, we do get a few weeks, maybe even a month if we are lucky,...
There’s no better place on Earth to watch the passing of time than the dollar bin at Target. As soon as one holiday is over, its shelves are filled with a new assortment of festive and unnecessary money wasters....
*Disclaimer: I sell clothes via a direct sales company with my mom and sister. We have an awesome time doing it and we collectively make an extra few thousand dollars each month. This is NOT typical, and this is NOT...
The week before I started kindergarten, I had one outfit to my name. ONE. My father had been laid off from his job, and whatever hand-me-downs I had from my older brother, no longer fit. Somewhat miraculously, my mother...
Long before my husband, kids, pets, or adulthood, I had one true love and obsession: beauty products. Even before I reached the age of 13, I would request fashion magazines and beauty products as "treats" from the store instead...
As a semi-only child (one brother seven years older) with parents too wise/lazy to over schedule my childhood with activities, I'm someone who likes having free time. The way I spend that free time is usually completely worthless (once...
My love affair with thrift store shopping has been burning deep inside since I realized I could buy weird, soft, old t-shirts from Goodwill instead of "borrowing" them from friends or finding them in the lost and found. I've...
It was almost three years ago when the now-familiar brown and turquoise package first appeared on my front door. I had two small children, a body that was changed and changing, and a closet full of clothes that didn't...