my met duds.

So, last week, my mother and I decided to take a leisurely trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC to see the Alexander McQueen exhibit. Yes, it was stunning, spectacular, shocking, and staggering, and all of those other striking 'S' adjectives, BUT we waited in line for two hours only to be crammed into small rooms with crowds of annoying people creaming in their pants over a designer they'd never even heard of until he was dead. That being said, the clothes were absolutely beautiful, despite the fact that I'm not even a huge McQueen fan.

I wish that I had been in the exhibit all by my lonesome to experience the crazy, spooky displays without someones hair on my arm every step of the way. And it was a Tuesday.. I suggest you go to see it before it goes bye-byes in a week. Lol, good luck.

..BUT I DIGRESS..

This is what I wore to the exhibit.

Although those beautiful, black, peep-toe, platform wedges are my partners in a not-so-secret love affair (wait until you see how much little they were), they were not meant to be worn for 8 hours at a time in New York City. Nevertheless, Mother and I had a splendid time strutting it up in the city's summer heat.

Let's get to the chase..

NECKLACE: $0

Pocket watch-turned necklace by my great aunt

SHIRT: $5.00

Cotton short-sleeved button-up from H&M (their sales are ace)

SKIRT: $0

Hand-picked straight from the 70's discarded garb of my mother's closet

SHOES<3: $15.00!

AHHHH! KJAHWE;ADSFALWKEJLOIR3U4! I KNOW, RIGHT?! Obsessed with these wedges I got for Fashion's Night Out last year from DAFFY'S in Herald Square, NYC.

GRAND TOTAL OF: $20.00

Well, that wasn't too bad, now was it? Twenty bucks for a kind of boho meets mod deal.

THANKS, DUDES AND DUDETTES.

Or no one, I mean that's cool, too.

Stay rich,

SKINFLINT

It feels like the very first time..

and that's because it is. I'm a tad anxious about my first inter-web outfit exposure, but I'm doubtful anyone is really reading anyway, so here it is:

We'll start from the head down.

(I'll probably never show my face. Mysterious, right?)

NECKLACE: $6.00

It was a gift from Kohl's

SHIRT: $2.00

From Joey New York (a tourist-y store on 9th Ave. & 35th in NYC) shredded/fringed by yours truly

BELT: $0

I won it at a tricky tray, but I believe it was from Hot Topic (lol. so dark.)

BRACELETS: $0

Just some friendship bracelets & a saints bracelet I always wear

RING: $0

And hand-made by me using an old keyboard key

SHORTS: $1.00

Trinity United Methodist Church Thrift Store in Hackettstown, NJ

SOCKS: $0

Vintage 80's socks from my mom's closet.

Mom's closet is my favorite place to shop/steal.

(When I was walking out the door today, my mom stopped me and said:

"Two different colored socks? Are you making a statement? I LOVE IT!"

Lolol, she's very supportive of my style decisions)

SHOES: $25.00

(major splurge for me here, but they were BRAND NEW Doc Martens.

That happened to fit perfectly. I mean.. seriously.)

Ever Green Consignment in Hampton, NJ

GRAND TOTAL OF OUTFIT: $34.00

Not bad, not bad. But I can do better.

^ Close-up of my nifty keyboard ring, in which the M has no relevance. ^

I'm thinking about making like lettered-keyboard-brass-knuckle-y rings.

How sweet would that be?

Sucks that you can only get one letter per keyboard, though. Whatevs.

Well, thanks.

Stay rich,

SKINFLINT

WELL, HELLO, THERE

..to anyone out there who's reading. I'm quite far from a blogging expert, so I guarantee that this will be a rough start. I don't even have a tumblr (I KNOW, BANISH ME TO HELL, RIGHT?!). But I'm willing to give this a try and see what if I've got what it takes.

So if you have, or have not, realized by now by the title of this blog, I am incredibly, obnoxiously, indubitably cheap.
A SKINFLINT is: noun informal
a person who spends as little money as possible; a miser.
Because cheapo, cheapskate, thrifty, miser, penny-pincher, tightwad, and piker were already taken. But I like the skinflint, so we'll stick with that.

ANYWHO, although I am ^all of the above^, I am addicted to clothing//FASHION OMGZ. However, I'm clearly not obsessed with fashion to the extent that I am willing to pay over $1,000 for a Christopher Kane dress (NO MATTER HOW MUCH I LOVE IT). Some people (at my ritzy-ass school) may say that I clearly do not have any appreciation for fashion if I don't own any designer merchandise, but they are free to think so, even if it's untrue.

I own designer things. Lots of designer things. But they are designer things that I found for 1/100th of the price on a broken clothing rack in a dingy antique store in the middle of nowhere. My clothes may be wacky/tacky, but I'm not breaking the bank to get them. My family has taught me to find deals almost invisible to the naked eye. And that's how I work.

And that's how this blog will work, as well. I hope you got this far in reading this mouth-full of a first post to realize what this blog will actually entail in the future. I will be posting pictures of my outfits and how much each piece costs/where exactly I got it as often as possible. (SPOILER ALERT: THEY'RE ALMOST ALWAYS A TOTAL OF LESS THAN $40 ...not for each piece. $40..TOTAL) I know there are about a trillion blogs that do this already (believe me, I check them daily, too), but I just want to prove you can be cheap and still be chic (or so I think).

Thanks. Enjoy. & Stay rich while doing so.
SKINFLINT