Red Weekend

They say the first step is admitting you have a problem....so here goes  {deep breath}

My name is Melissa, and I have a problem.

I like to think of myself as a frugal person.  I take pride in the fact that I live on a starving college student budget in a tiny apartment with ugly carpet and virtually no drawer space.  I walk the half mile to and from campus multiple times in a day, just to save on gas money.  I bake my own bread. I buy things in bulk.  It's been ages since I saw a movie anywhere but the Dollar Theater.

Frugal, right?

This weekend was a holiday, and because every exam or assignment that my professors could have even thought of assigning hit me last week, this weekend was deadline free.  So I did something I haven't done in quite a while.  I went to the mall, just to look around....

Right.

This weekend I splurged, not once, but twice, on completely fabulous and completely frivolous red purchases.

Frugality fail.

I probably won't eat anymore this month, but who needs food when you are the proud new owner of:

Lancome "Red Haute" lipstick

and patent red Steve Madden heels?

Yup.  Me neither!