I’m back!
I’ve been back from Melbourne for a couple of days. I’ve caught up on email, responded to all the comments people left while I was away, sorted out a few things at home… I guess I should get back to blogging!
Archive for October, 2006
I’m in Melbourne
I’m in Melbourne for a few days and ‘Real Life’ isn’t leaving much time to blog. I’ll be back in Sydney on Wednesday and will post an update then. See you soon!
Good hair matters, but needn’t cost a heap
I’ve been writing a lot about personal style lately, and no series on style is complete without talking about hair. If you want to look great, you need to pay at least minimal attention to your hair because it’s such a noticeable part of your overall grooming. Straggly, unkempt hair tells the world that self-care activities are a low priority to you. In this time-poor age, we have to size each other up so quickly that appearances really do count.
Personal style: a rock chick at 50
A reader, Maggie, asked a great personal style question:
As an almost 50 I feel that I’m about to take another style jump!
My personal dilemma is my own self image as a bit of a “rock chick”, a style which I have carried off without a hitch until recently. My fear of looking, as my dear eldest would say, like “mutton” has led to a classier version of this style, but I am still resistant to the “classic” dressing a lot of women my age resort to.
Are we supposed to let our individuality go at my age and start blending in? Its hard to get clothes which fulfil my middle aged classy rock chick fantasy, so I tend to mix it up a lot, department store classic mixed with more edgy t shits and accessories. Markets and shops like Dangerfield have great cheap little badges and earrings.
We’re in this week’s Festival of Frugality!
Mr Bargain Queen’s budgeting tip post, A dollar spent is a dollar spent, is featured in this week’s Festival of Frugality over at Tired but happy. Congratulations Mr Bargain Queen!
My other favourite post in this week’s Festival is How Not to Be Frugal: Too Many Magazine Subscriptions from J.D. at Get Rich Slowly.
Magazines are one of my weaknesses and I’ve been thinking of signing up for one of those cheapie subscriptions myself. Even after paying to shipping to Australia, a yearly subscription to my favourite U.S. magazines would cost the same as four or five copies on the newsstand. It sounds like a great deal… but I currently buy two to three copies a year, so it would actually cost me more to do it! And really, I don’t need to look at more pretty pictures of things I can’t afford. So no magazine subscriptions for me!
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