How to Be a Budget Fashionista

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How to Be a Budget Fashionista by Kathryn Finney
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Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books (May 30 2006)
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Chapter 1: Know Your Budget
Like the whooping crane and great-fitting jeans, budgeting is now extinct. The rise of credit and debit cards has made items that our foreshopping mothers had to wait months to purchase as accessible as whipping out our plastic friends

Chapter 1: Cutting Back
You have two basic choices to improve your budget: You can either increase your income or decrease your spending. I suggest doing both. In Chapter 2 I'll show you ten ways to infuse cash into your bank account.

Book Description

Good news: You don't have to sacrifice style just to pay your electric bill. Kathryn Finney, a.k.a. the Budget Fashionista, is the expert on all things chic and cheap. Now she opens up her Prada bag of shopping and style tips to make you fashionably frugal, with change to spare. It's as easy as 1-2-3!

Know your budget: Learn innovative, money-saving ways to increase your clothing funds.
Know your style: Get helpful hints from fashion insiders and use them to develop your own mode of self-expression.
Know your bargains: Discover the art of scoring exclusive friends-and-family coupons for your favorite department stores.

Whether you're a homemaker from Houston, a grandma from Grand Rapids, or an M.D. from Manhattan, you don't need to break the bank to look your best. With great cost-cutting tips, at-home spa secrets, designer discount websites, and access to exclusive deals, The Budget Fashionista is like having your own personal stylist at your beck and call. So before you go out and commit the eighth deadly sin — buying a fake Louis Vuitton — read this must-have guide and learn to be style-smart and budget-wise!

About the Author

Kathryn Finney

My name is Kathryn Finney and I'm the Budget Fashionista. I was born in the heartland of America, where as a budding fashionista, I set fashion trends despite -30 degree weather and a Wave Noveau curly perm (a.ka. fancy Jheri curl). I moved to the east coast to attend college and after eight years as a serial shopper, budding politician, and Ivy League-educated epidemiologist, I was totally broke.

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