Just one month, we will face christmas and new year party. Everyone are preparing to shop.  Shopping is a amazing way to express your self, especially to women that have the sense of glamour, trendy and modist. But in the next month of holiday party, all part of man crowded to find themself the best one. Like new Furniture in your Bed Room, Lamp on your Dining Room and Your Kitchen Tools.

Every side in your home are very exciting if you buy them a new one. Because they can feel your happiness too.

Now, how to save your money when Chistmas is coming and after that The New Year Party is waiting for? Read the rest of this entry »

Cheap shopping tips

Get fewer but nicer things- go in sale time for good denim that improves with age and quality handbags and sunglasses.

Charity stores and ‘Op shops’ have seasonal clearouts for 50c, making their cheap clothes practically free. I gopt a very Audrey Hepburn wool dress with satin sash for 50c at one of these last year. Look for the posters on their windows. Also, they have Fill a Bag for $1 days regularly, especially the Red Cross stores.

Go to children’s shops for women’s wear in the biggest child’s size eg Farmers’ boys’ vests fit a size 12 woman, and a fraction of the price often.

Vintage vs Second-hand clothing

Vintage stores are the icing on the clothing cake. We need to look for the cake; the second-hand shop. Vintage shops can be expensive as you’re paying someone else to look for you, so develop an eye for your own style at charity stores. You can look for 2nd hand designer pieces or retro stuff decades old that looks very right NOW. Read the rest of this entry »

The Price Is Right: Strategies for Shopping the Trends on Budget
-Cost-Effective Beauty and Fitness
-Buy Now, Wear Forever: Clean, Lean Clothes that Are Always in Style

Even this month’s Elle has formally dipped in its toes with a “High/Low” style and culture guide that presents the genius of mixing $15 American Apparel T-shirts and Bottega Venetta bags that cost as much as a Toyota Yaris.

Movie stars and models now discuss their love of $15 T-shirts as a matter of pride. For many of us, it’s the norm. Pride is getting that $15 shirt for $5.99 at the outlet mall. This cultural trend, a high-end validated shift-to-thrift, is a first as far back as I can remember. Recession after recession, when was it ever cool for upwardly-mobile rich folks to shop “…on a budget”?

Welcome to our new reality. I kinda like it. Not the part about the car-priced bag (gorgeous as it is) but the idea that it’s smart and savvy and enviable to shop well and within your means. The pressure of luxury consumption has lessened up to a degree that makes it just plain fabulous to look great in an outfit from Target (or should I say, Tar-jhay) no matter how much money you make or what gender you are. Of course, there are those that say that luxury has just gone underground (check out David Brooks’ Bobos In Paradise) and into $15,000 refrigerators. I don’t think as many of those are selling these days.

What matters most to you about this trend (by the way, welcome to the club, Vogue. We’ve been here for a while), is the choice and sense now jamming the airwaves of retail. The revival of plain ol’ common sense when it comes to shopping for our ‘wants’ is long coming and much needed. For example, our new mantras of pride are: Never pay retail. Style cannot be bought—true style can be had at any price. And now, where you put your dollars says a lot about who you are and what you think is important (hello, movie star driving a Prius).

Vote with your wallet—plunk your hard-earned money down wisely. Looking good in an outfit put together within your budget and fully paid for says “smart.” Looking good but nursing an ulcer as you wonder where you’re going to come up with that luxury-car lease payment just smacks of “sucker.” The wise choice is the one that’ll leave more money in your wallet. Read the rest of this entry »

Free Internet
The only free internet I could find any information about was at Hula’s (Gay) Bar on Kapahulu. So I cautiously, but confidently strutted in like I knew what I was doing, and ordered a beer. It was like a parody of The Birdcage and a Village People music video, combined! I then spotted the three computers and found out that No drinks are permitted near Computers. Quickly drank beer, quickly checked email, and got the heck outta Dodge!
Next time I’ll just use the cheap internet available at most of the Hostels. But it was memorable! Read the rest of this entry »