#1

I am a woman of many interests with neither the budget nor time to pursue them. I have started countless blogs (okay, like 3) all of which I have abandoned (except for my tumblr accounts because sometimes you need the thrill of ‘peak-a-boo oh no a slew of porn’ as you play on your phone in public).

Indeed, between full-time studenting (I’m a graduate student and I make up words. Fight me) and working jobs above minimum wage but still low-paying enough to keep the inner bitterness alive (I know I should be making more money grandma, but I can’t really balance a full-time class load and a full-time job...) I have long accepted I need some sort of outlet to keep myself from breaking down in a pool of millennial angst with a side of high-achiever’s anxiety (What if I don’t get a job that pays me enough to pay off my loans?!?!? Yeah, unacceptable.)

I thought blogging would be my outlet. I still think it will be my outlet. I've just been going about it the wrong way.

My two main loves in life are shopping and food (well, the loves I'm willing to extrapolate about on social media). I love food because FOOD, and I love shopping because I believe in the power of nice clothing and the temporary fix of retail therapy. I shop and eat when I'm stressed; I've done a lot of shopping and eating these past six years. (I know as a young 20 something I should be saving; I'll start saving in earnest when I have a full-time job, which should be in about 428 days so fuck off, let me have my vices. Yes, this was a preemptive fuck off for the people who might judge my frivolous spending. I also hashtag remorselessly #alldaysavage)

I’ve always wanted to make a fashion blog but never did because 1. I’m broke broke brokety broke 2. I’m broke 3. I don’t vary my outfits enough for OOTD type posts due to apathy and work uniforms at my *AMWJ #1 and Finally 4. How could my broke ass make a fashion blog worth being on the same internet as some of these fashionable, full-time job having people?

At the end of the day, my last bastion of insecurity won out and I quietly closed down my previous blogs because I thought they weren’t good enough, because I wasn’t good enough yet. (Well, except for the last blog. I shut that one down because paying for my domain name got old pretty quick.) 

Why the eff shouldn’t I blog about clothing? I shop, don’t I? Low street and high street fashion have no bearing on my real life shopping decisions; the cheaper the better is my life motto (95% of the time), and I still don’t understand how a sale shirt can cost more than 5 dollars. I’m about quality and quantity; I try to buy nice things when they’re super cheap, which might be the reason people who don’t know me think I’m a rich bitch but that is literally a topic for a different day. But I’ve digressed.

So, hello. It’s me. I’m a broke grad student who likes to shop.

BROKE HEAUX CHRONICLES.

*AMWJ = Almost Minimum Wage Job