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Forced Beauty
By Mommie | February 21, 2008
My husband surprised me by forcing my daughter and I out of the house and using some of his birthday money to get our nails done. My daughter loved this, as she always does. She calls it “mommy-daughter time”, even though in my head we weren’t anywhere near each other for the duration of getting our nails done. So why do I say “forced”?
I’m cheap. Flat out. I don’t like spending money to have someone else do my nails when I could do it better myself and not spend the cash. I hate having my hair cut. My hair is beautiful and straight, just to get like a quarter inch cut off costs at least $20. That just makes me shake my head. I’ve had my hair highlighted once, that was for my wedding, and it’ll never happen again. I spent like $200 for highlights that you could just barely see.
My point being that you don’t have to have all these things done to be beautiful. I go back to my last post about little girls wearing to much makeup and the moms bringing them up like this. I want my daughter to know you can be beautiful without hours trying to make yourself that way.
Let me clarify, I don’t consider myself homely or unstylish. I actually think I’m one hell of a catch:-) But to spend money on things that I can do myself for a much cheaper price, those things must be forced upon this Mommie.
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February 22nd, 2008 at 2:18 am
I agree! I took my 14 yo daughter out of school one day in Jan bc of a dr appt.. we both *thought* we wanted out nails done. I took her out a bit early so we could do a mom-daughter thing.. the secretary at the school was a witch about me pulling her out (but that’s a whole other story!).. Anyway.. within a week of having her nails done, my daughter took hers off.. it took me another week and a half. We’ll not be doing that again. Could have done it myself and they’d have looked much nicer!
February 22nd, 2008 at 8:43 am
I feel the same way! I hate spending money on things I can do better myself. It’s just not worth the expense in this budget filled world.
~Jess~
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February 23rd, 2008 at 7:24 pm
I can’t stand to spend money on myself either. I “splurge” on trims to my hair about once every three months, and consider a day where I’ve done a good job moisturizing my feet to be a day where I’ve pampered myself.