Decided I should do some posts on what the fashionistas in your life could use for Christmas or whatever holiday you celebrate!  Today I'm posting some fashionable books, I haven't read all of them but I've read good things about them!  You can click the image of the book to see more information and to buy them (I was going to post about each of them, but I didn't know what to say about some of them without saying the same stuff over and over)!  What books would you recommend? I'll add them to the bottom of the post as people mention them!

*For InStyle's The New Secrets of Style find the latest issue, I couldn't find it on Amazon, but there should be a newer one because I have a different one from 2010.

Magazine Subscriptions - Okay, so these aren't really books, but here are SOME great fashion magazines you could get as a gift for any fashionable friend.


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This was my first full week of work in a while, how sad...and I won't have any days off until December 23rd.  (UPDATE: I have weekends off, haha, so I have some days off, just not weekdays. I'm a 9-5er at a marketing agency) This week my outfits were a bit boring and frumpy, but I wasn't in the mood to dress nice.

Monday Jeans - Hollister Sweater - Hollister $15 Heels - from co-worker	Tuesday Jeans - Sass & Bide (eBay) $30 Sweater - gift Flats - vanEli gift	Wednesday Dress - Marc Jacobs (eBay) $28 Jacket - American Eagle $20 Flats - Kelly and Katie $17
Thursday Cargos - American Eagle $0 Tee - American Eagle $? Blazer - Marc Jacobs (eBay) $? Wedges - R2 $35	Friday Pants - Glo $? Sweater - American Eagle gift Flats - Chaps $8

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Last month I won a gift card from Passport Glamour's $100 BESO giveaway.  I chose to get a gift card for American Eagle since ASOS and The Outnet didn't do gift cards.  I ordered a pair of jeans, cargo jeggings, a fair isle sweater and socks (to make it go over $100 and have free shipping).  So for all of that I only paid $4.72!!   In the images the 20% off price is what I paid for each item.  Sadly I think I'm going to return the sweater, its really cute but also itchy.  The jeggings and jeans fit perfect (as is usual with American Eagle) so YAY! :D

THANKS BESO!!!!!
Ignore how I look in these photos and my lack of shoes, I took them fast ;)
Yesterday, I went to return my sweater because it was just too itchy.  So I paid $44 for it and I returned it without the receipt and got $58 back!!! I am sooo bad, but whatever they are overpriced, they can afford to give me the full price of the sweater, ha ha. So now I have some more moola to spare at AE this month :D

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Oddly enough, most of this months budget wasn't spent on clothes...so imagine if I only counted clothes in my budget, I'd be wayyy under. But I figure its better I keep myself accountable for everything that isn't necessary so I can move out faster (but I sorta want to save up for a house instead of an apartment, but that's insane).

I need to do some serious thinking about next year. I have 2 big trips coming up: Florida in March and London in July (London isn't totally set in stone yet), so I need to save up my money so I have spending money while I'm there.  I'm also debating whether or not to get an iPad so I don't have to bring my laptop with me...but that's $700 (for the smallest size 3G one with a case)...GRRR!  The problem with that would mean I wouldn't really be able to do any blog/Potter news posts with images, but I could do basic posts...I need to weigh the options....decisions decisions...stupid money. 

• November 2 - Toy Story 2 DVD $16.95 
• November 6 - Weekend with Friends $50
• Pizza for Lunch (pepperoni) $10
• TGI Friday's for Dinner (chicken tenders and blue raspberry slush) $20
• American Eagle Blazer $20
• November 16 - Dress from Twitch Vintage $16.49
• November 16 - Deathly Hallows Soundtrack & Avatar Extended Edition $0 with SwagBucks gift cards! (should have been $29.98)
• November 19 - Printing Photos from Summer - HP premiere & a collage poster $29 
• November 20 - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows + Popcorn + Drink $3 (we had free tickets, dad gave us $10 and we split the end cost) 
• November 21 - Duchess Hot Dog and Chocolate Shake $7
• November 21 - Mom Christmas Gift $37 
• November 22 - American Eagle Order $4.72 (had $100 gift card)

TOTAL: $164.16
LEFT: $85.84

New York Trip: $73 (this didn't count, and all of this was essential anyway since I needed food ;) )

• Applebees - chicken nuggets, fries, water, brownie
• Starbucks - hot chocolate + 1/2 a cinnamon bun
• Starbucks 2 - hot chocolate + mini donut
• Barnes and Noble - water and coffee cake
• Cab
• Train Ticket

Even if I counted that I'm still under, so yay!
 
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