grysar | (no subject)

My office is kinda cold. I think we keep the A/C up a bit too high. Short sleeved shirts (still worn with ties) often leave me a bit cold even if they're reasonably appropriate outside. I'm not quite sure how the regs are on short sleeves, but for now I just limit them to days without important meetings and figure that my bosses would tell me if they were a problem. Not asking is my pathetically minor way of maintaining my fashion autonomy.

Also, for my lunch, I will once again be studying counter-insurgency methods. That is to say I will be eating soup with a knife. Over time I slowly lose utensils and I've been good about not hitting the food court for a bit so I haven't restocked. Apparently the trick to counter-insurgency is drinking directly from the bowl near the end.

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Well, I am dorky.

And I also have a competing ideal of spending about $50 a year or less on clothes. In the exception of years where I get suits. (I may have to buy another jacket at some point, that'd be another exception).

I used to be in your shoes when I was really budgetting myself in order to afford the house. What I did to cut down on clothing expenses is geat all my dress clothes from Value Village. For $50 you could get 4 sets of long sleeve shirts and khakis. Every so often you get lucky and find someone that donated the stuff with the tags still on. Just be sure to check the condition of the elbows since those tend to wear down the fastest. I've been using my Value Village attire for the past three years and just two weeks ago finally went out and bought some new first-hand dress clothes from a store. Even then I only paid about $20 per shirt.