✿ APRILATHENA7✿: Thrift Store Haul & Show with my husband Justin!

Hi friends! One of my goals for the new year is to save more and spend less. That means no more Christian Louboutin or Chanel purchases --everyone can look chic on a budget! I've learned that just because you can afford designer brands doesn't mean you have to buy them just because everyone else is doing it. I've never been the type of person to care for designer labels until the blogger world and YouTube world sucked me into their materialistic lifestyle. I'm not here to judge, everyone can spend their money on what makes them happy but things don't make me happy, memories and helping others brings true joy to me. I'd rather donate more to Feed the Children and save for my dream house. I sponsor a boy from Malawi through Feed the Children and it's my greastest joy seeing him send letters. I cry happy tears every time I get his letters and that puts things in perspective --helping others is what matters most, not the brands on the clothes on my back. I'm going to be TRUE to who I really am and shop on a budget and maybe every now and then buy a nice purse that I know I will have for years. I have nothing to prove to anyone. My other joys in life is traveling and spending time with my husband Justin and cats so that's where we enjoy spending. My husband and I have this motto: We like to spend money on memories, not material. Memories as in traveling, trips visiting family, date nights, events and concerts.