World According to Shia

Hello everyone! I am mongs from my thrifty closet . I'm a stay at home mom of two boys. I really enjoy blogging and it has been a great journey of discovering myself and getting to know wonderful people including Shia. Shia has a humorous and unpretentious style of writing, which I love. Thank you to Shia for allowing me to post at her blog today. I live in Singapore, a cosmopolitan city on a tiny tropical island. I enjoy fashion, history, art, architecture, vintage, photography and design. My interests are sewing, refashioning and thrifting, so my blog centers around these things, mainly my personal style and how I try to be creative with my thrifty closet. Sometimes when I do outfit pictures, I like to bring my readers around my favorite parts of Singapore. As a stay home mom, I try to be resourceful and frugal. So I wear mostly hand-me-down and thrifted clothes. Sometimes I refashion second hand clothes to suit my style. t his top was thrifted at $1 and refashioned int...

How crazy  fashion forward to you have to be to buy this? It's $1,198!! or if you don't want to waste  splurge that much money... This one is $348!! In case you are dying to buy one... here's the website !

So it's that time of year again ... to focus on all the "bad" and wage war against it.   About 45% of adults make a new year's resolution and only about 75% of those adults make it past the first week.  The six month mark drops to 46%. At this time of the year, I try to stay away from the obvious cliche resolutions...blah blah blah.   (UNLESS YOURS IS TO QUIT SMOKING!!!  DO THAT PUH-LEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)  I do try to think of something that I need to work on ...I mean it is a resolution.   For example, one year I made a resolution to wear my seat belt.  In my early 20s I never did (plus it was BEFORE cars beeped until you put it on) and I was actually proud when the seat belt man light burned out on my car.  I know I know...Shia is much too wise to not wear one now.  This is my point, I was doing something reckless and dangerous to myself EVERY time I drove so I resolved to fix it and I did.  So this year, I think my ...

The NY Times states that the 7 to 10 pound weight gain over the holidays is an exaggeration.  Some surveys even state that on average people gain about 5 pounds between Thanksgiving and Christmas.  However, new studies show that most people only gain one pound over the holiday season but the kicker is that they never lose that one pound. I'm not a big fan of holiday food.  I don't care that much about turkey or ham...I don't eat mashed potatoes, casseroles, etc.  I can pretty much do without any holiday food.   HOWEVER , give me some holiday desserts and I surrender to the temptation.  I think I ate about 4 cookies last night alone...sigh.  I did turn down pie...lol.  So I do have SOME self control. So how much food did you eat over the holidays? What's your holiday weakness?

So we all seem to get things that are less than desirable. What should we do with it? 1) Return it ~ if you can return it for something useful...go for it! Stores are less likely to ask for a receipt right after the holidays,  so you'll probably get store credit to swap for something else sometimes you can get a gift card but it's still store credit. 2) Re-gift it?  This is a slippery slope...if it's truly a "bad" gift why do that to someone else?  But if it is just something that you don't personally like but someone else might...go for it! Just be careful of who you re-gift it to...you wouldn't want the  original gift giver to find out and their feelings get hurt. 3) Give to Charity!  Don't throw it away!  Give it to charity. Sometimes I think this is also a slippery slope ~ what just because you have nothing you should get something  crappy?  Something better than nothing?  Sigh!  I ...

and to All a Good Night! I hope you all are having a very Merry Christmas!