$30 Project

I'm Lindsay and I started to this blog in 2010 to try and pay off my credit card debt. (I finally managed it in late 2012!) I set a budget for every year. They've gone as follows: spending no more than $30 on any single clothing item, spending only a $100 per month, and budgeting $1,200 for the year that I could spend whenever I liked. I've never once broken the rules! In 2013, I have a $1,000 budget. Questions/Concerns can be addressed care of thirtydollarproject@gmail.com or tweet me! @30dollarproject for outfit updates and @LindsH for the various musings of my everyday life.

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Notes I just figured out that I spend $90 a month on iced coffee.

Hi all!

I swear that I am not dead and one of these days, this Tumblr will get back on track.

Please bear with me as I am in the process of extricating myself from one apartment situation and planning to move out on my own. This decision was fraught with anxiety, mostly because I had to figure out if I could afford the rent on a one bedroom without a partner in tow. (New York, New York… yes sir!)

So, can I do it? Yyyeeesss?

Well, okay. Yes.

But it is going to require some serious financial planning on my part. Case in point, The $30 Project is about to get more budget-friendly than ever. In addition to outfit posts and the occasional musical diatribe, you’ll probably start to see a lot more about cooking on the cheap, general repair and household DIYs, and maybe a complaint or two about how I am totally broke! I might learn to knit and/or sew?

Basically, I’ll attempt to cut costs from as many areas of my life as possible and I thought that you’d like to go along for the ride. So far I have figured out that I spend nearly $90 a month on iced coffee, which is not only both horrific and nauseating, but has left me majorly under-caffeinated today.

Thanks for sticking with me and, as always, please feel free to leave suggestions about posts you’d like to see.

Now I am off to listen to the new Fiona Apple album approximately 900x.

progressivelyworse said: This iced coffee recipe is pretty much the bomb dot com and has saved me a lot of money since I discovered it! thepioneerwoman.com/coo…
bthny said: but mmmmm iced coffee (I was going to go to a coffee shop to do some work and then I remembered that I had like, $1 in my wallet, so I feel you)
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