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"After a season of spending, returning, exchanging and online shopping, I&amp;#039;m cutting myself off. Good-bye credit card. I&amp;#039;m paying my entire bill with the holiday money from my family members (Pay up Grandma! Just kidding!) and I&amp;#039;m starting the new year from scratch. I&amp;#039;m now on a budget of $100 cash a week. GASP! How am I going to fill up my gas tank, have dinner with friends, see a movie, or take a road trip on my college break, let alone keep myself stylish? I must put my Urban Outfitters addiction aside. Department store sale racks here I come! To keep myself in check, I visit store Websites and only browse the sale section. Macys.com has some cocktail dresses starting at $10. (Just click sale at the top of the page.) AND I can still look at Urban&amp;#039;s sale section without being tempted to spend two week&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;pay.&amp;quot; Shopping online lets me think twice about a purchase. I can run to my closet and see if the piece makes sense, or if it will go in the pile of never-worns. Some sites can locate a product in stores if you don&amp;#039;t want to order it. Clothes/shoe/accessory stalking has become my way of life. I&amp;#039;ve had my eye on a few pairs of heels since November, but I refuse to buy them until they go on sale. Conveniently, I can check up on them every day if I want on the Web. Do I really want to ruin new shoes in the winter slush when I can save them for spring? But the best tip I can give to avoid over-spending is to step into the mall with one or two things in mind that you came to shop for, and try not to veer off that path. Trust me, I know it&amp;#039;s hard, but when I pick up a top I try to imagine my closet at home full of shirts exactly like it. Now that I&amp;#039;ve got this budget thing down to a science, it could actually be a fun way to start a new year! What do you do to save money on clothes? What are your cheapie secrets? Love, Tricia Web Intern "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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