FREE MONEY

FREE MONEY = SHOPPING

FREE MONEY means finding a $5.00 bill crumpled up in the pocket of a sweater, birthday money from your Granny or any other unexpected moola from the sky that should not be spent on anything practical.

FREE MONEY should almost always be spent on SHOPPING. Free money is best spent at consignment or thrift stores. I’m a bargain shopper from waaaay back. I’ve learned how to say “thank you” if someone compliments me on my attire instead of swelling with pride and bragging in a booming voice “I got this for $1.79 at Mr. Pinky’s Hefty Hideaway!” (Note – MPHH is a store from the movie “Hairspray” so don’t go searching it for it at the Mall of America)

I was thrilled the first time I qualified for the senior discount at Saver’s (Senior Day on Tuesday for you older blog readers) and am on a first name basis with the consignment store owners in the area. I like to think that when they greet me by name they are thinking - “VICKI is here again today, cool” but it could be “VICKI is here again today and will try to squeeze her big aunt fanny into the size 8 lime green capris. OH Nooooooooooo”

My preferred consignment store is the Phenomenal Woman Consignment shop in Zumbrota. You may have seen the TV ad with the tag line --- “Treating the plus size woman with the RESPECT she deserves. “ The hard-working business owner and my friend for over 20 years is Kris Ferguson. Kris appreciates the fact that women deserve to wear stylish and beautiful clothing not just black polyester pants and Mumu’s.

The fashions at PW are amazing, affordable and even with the smallest amount of FREE MONEY you can find marvelous clothing and accessories. For example – this coming Saturday, July 18th is CRAZY DAYS in Z-town. There will be several racks of clothing at PW for ONE DOLLAR. The sale starts at 7:00 a.m. which gives you sufficient time to stop by the Farmer’s Market beforehand and get some terrific treats and coffee/tea from Vintage Light Coffee and Tea and then zip up to Zumbrota and shop.

The dressing rooms at PW are spacious, the sales staff affable and obliging and if you mention this blog you get… A huge prize! hahaha. Just kidding you don’t get anything for admitting you read this. However, if you log on to the PW website at www.pwconsignment.com you can print off a valuable coupon for lots of remarkable items.

Thursday’s tip:
Scrape together some FREE MONEY (sell your neighbor’s cat , rummage through your husband’s pants pockets, scrounge on the floor of your car) then fritter it way just for fun!
And, if you see a cubby chick struggling into size 8 lime green Capri pants pay no attention.

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