In the world of Save. Spend. Splurge.
What I liked this week:
- These DvF dresses are perfection. The one pictured is only $180, and I like this one, this one, this one and this one. Oh and this camel coat is beautiful!!!!
- Sex is sex but money is money. Escorts who are smart & know the business, make $6000 a day. A DAY. $12 million a year if you make it a 2000 work week. (H/T to Paige)
- Crying at work : How terrible and hard is it? I’ve done it. I’ll admit it. Sometimes the stress gets to you…
- Would you pass this financial literacy test? (H/T to F35)
- Breakfast around the world: What Kids Eat. I think Baby Bun would love trying all of these meals out… but I would probably leave the coffee out of the hands of Baby Bun. He doesn’t need caffeine, that child. My ideal breakfast is the Japanese one on there…. mostly savoury, not sweet. Ideally, it’s both actually. Savoury, then sweet like a Japanese start and a French finish. (H/T to @Revanche)
- I would HOPE that making more than $150,000 you have more than $20,000 saved… :\ As a high-earning Millennial, I’m surprised at how little the high earners have saved.
- All the stuff that FEMALE airline attendants have to conform to in terms of their looks, style and accessories. Some make sense, others are just plain.. wtf? “Must be Unmarried”?
- I saw this post and immediately ordered a range of plaid shirts to try and match this outfit.
- If only Baby Bun would nap and sleep like this..
- I have been hearing about ‘memory palaces’ as a way of remembering things, but this is really.. jaw-dropping in terms of memory skillz.
- Why I went vegetarian — a lot of these reasons are reasons why we are flexitarian, as in 90% vegetarian
- What a lovely, minimalist clutch. I really like it. I like it more in an unexpected fabric like a tweed or a felt but the leather is nice.
- I also worry about not having books to tempt Baby Bun with to develop a reading bone, but I have to remember that I did not have many books either as a child. I went to the library .. a lot. That was a great experience and fun time with my mother to run around and pick out 30 books to read for 2 weeks.
- …is Kate Hudson really a fashion icon? Methinks.. not. I have been eying Olivia Wilde, the Olsens (all 3 of the girls), Kate Moss, Emanuelle Alt, Miranda Kerr and Kate Bosworth way more than Kate Hudson for style inspiration….
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save. spend. splurge.
I’m a lovable enabler.
That ballerina wrap is something I’m considering in ivory as one of my outs.
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Tania
I love DVF too but DVF doesn’t always love me (or more specifically my body type). I have found however the mini wrap dresses are a good fit. I like Kate Hudson’s style but the article didn’t have good pics IMO.. She has a bohemian 70’s inspired style, very much like her mother. Most of the icons you like are classic dressers (including Kate Moss – she appears rocker but if you look at her individual pieces, she is based in classic).I love your favorites too.Passed the literacy with flying colors. In regards to the concern over baby bun’s future status as a voracious reader, I grew up with very little money. We had all of the necessities but not much spending money. My mother took us to the library each Wednesday and we could get whatever we wanted. Bookstore once a week and our book allowance was either 4 comics or 1 book. We weren’t allowed to be “collectors”. She would make us purge our comics and books regularly. Both my sister and I grew up with a love of reading (& learning), an advanced reading level and read more than your average person.
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save. spend. splurge.
DvF is very lowcut. I have to wear a slip under all my DvF dresses but I do so love her wraps.
Maybe I should start a company creating wrap dresses. The problem is the cost would be at a minimum $400 per dress unless I find a super cheap seamstress.
Kate Moss is one of my icons!! I really like her style and she is as you said, classic but on the casual side, not preppy.
Agreed about the library bit. I was not allowed to hoard books but I did go to the library weekly, and what’s odd is my parents never read a single book in front of me, so.. I didn’t pick it up from them. I just liked to escape.
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Cassie
I LOVE the shade of green on that Zoe dress! I haven’t bitten the bullet on one of her wrap dresses yet, but the dresses I do have are fantastic. I would consider ordering this one if my belly wasn’t mid-expansion at the moment.
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Sylvie
You’re a terrible influence, I’m now a DVF consumer and have been eyeing a few Tes Baker pieces, too! The dress losted above looks chic in the photo, but I have the lace back to be a bit cheap looking in person. I do, however, love this season’s silk/cashmere blend ballerina wrap. Timeless and and flattering! Worth the steep price for something so versatile.