Autumn is here!

Hey Blog Friends (I've been watching too many Jim Chapman YouTube vlogs):

Autumn is here! Okay, so it's in the low 80° and gets to the low 70°  at nights here in Phoenix, Ariz., but we Phoenicians consider this lovely weather perfect to pull out our tights and light long sleeves (we live in a desert people, with scorching heat for months and months and months). 

The following outfit I call my "Bonnie" outfit. Anyone who's a fan of Vampire Diaries might think so too. I got the dress slash shirt at Charming Charlie in downtown Phoenix, which is about 10 minutes away from my school. It's a two-story store with all the accessories any girl can ever dream of. I got this shirt/dress sometime last winter and it was on sale for 10 bucks reduced from a price of, I think, $30. It's also sort of a rosy brown color. 

The tights are from Target for $6. 

And I got my midnight blue oxfords at Cathy's at AZ Mills Shopping Center. All shoes at the store were buy one get another 50% off...so Gabee and I tried to cheat the system. We both got ourselves a pair of midnight blue oxfords and rather than one paying $20 and the other paying $10, we each paid $15, saving ourselves $4 (each, so $8 in total)! 

                

Saving on Time; I'll Just Get Some Time Credit...

Here's a big issue I think most can sympathize with: How to have enough time to do everything... I mean, granted, I don't do much except for eat, eat, eat (some serious amount of money goes into street food) and then I'm home watching, watching, watching and reading, reading, reading and...sleeping. All I ever wanna do is sleep. And then I find myself borrowing time from the future saying I'll just do something later.

I think that the only thing (other than being super organized, but honestly, I am not: take the piles of books all over my desk as an example of my inability to be organized) is just doing whatever it is we want to get done. Maybe the problem is trying to prioritize everything in our lives that we then have absolutely no time to do what it is we want to do. Take now for instance: I'm trying to write something meaningful on how to save your time for other things while thinking about all the sociology and literature homework I've got piling on while my dog Max sits next to me waiting for playtime WHILE I think about my longing to finish Anna Karenina before Joe Wrights' film hits theaters.

So. For the past months, I've been wanting to work out and read more, but find myself coming too late in the evening from school, super hungry with a super pile of work with a super need to do nothing and watch a bunch of X Factor auditions and YouTubers (Jim Chapman, I love you. And I love Tanya, your gf, too.) and all of a sudden it's super bloody 2 a.m. and only some of my homework has gotten done, so the next day I have no energy to do my hair, and well, the kvetching starts.

Thus, here's my advise on how to save time: Stop trying. And start doing more (preferably things that don't involve sitting around watching your favorite YouTubers).

Don't remember where I read it, but somewhere along my internet explorations I came across someone's saying that if you complain you don't have enough time to do the things you love, maybe you should stop watching TV. In my case, it's internet TV.

That's all I've got for tonight on bargaining on -- time!

Please keep reading and definitely share with us some of your advise on how to save on the most mundane of things even if it doesn't have to do with savings on latest vogue trends!

xoxo - Noemi