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As Told Over Brunch is a home for intelligent discourse from the twenty-something perspective - so the stuff you gossip about over mimosas on Sunday morning or over takeout on your friend's couch when happy hour ends too early. We love chatting about our lives, whether it be the relationships we’re building (or destroying), lessons we've learned at work, struggles at school, growing pains we've felt, or even the food we’re talking over.

The Solution to My Overly Frugal Fashion Problems

December 06, 2015 by Sara Woznicki in Leisure, Life In Your 20's, Makeup Sales, Sara's Column, Tweets and Mascara

I won $100 at work, but they couldn't hand me cash for tax purposes, so I got a $50 gift card to H&M and a $50 to Target. That way, I would force myself into buying clothes, but I could also be practical at Target. I legitimately laid in bed one day on the Target website and brainstormed what I'd like to buy. I decided on tampons, a hamper and mouthwash. Let's just breeze over the fact that it took me hours of thinking to decide on those three items and move on to an even bigger problem.

I had $50 to H&M. That gift card was almost guaranteed to spend itself. Until it didn't. I picked out a bright pink top (trying to expand my colors in my wardrobe), a flowy summer top (it was on sale for $2) and a blue sweater that sat like a tent on my body but had tigers on it (because it had tigers on it, duh). It cost me $25 total.

Who Knew I was Fashionable?

October 13, 2015 by Sara Woznicki in Life In Your 20's, life lessons, Makeup Sales, Tweets and Mascara, Sara's Column

If I don’t pick out my outfit the night before a day of work, I end up wearing jeans and a t-shirt. If I half plan out an outfit, I’ll know what dress I’m going to wear, but not tights or shoes. And that’s how I ended up at work with a black and white dress with patterned tights.

See, when I try to pick out tights in the morning, it’s rather hard to see because I don’t like a lot of light in the morning. I'm not a morning person. Add on top that about half of my tights have holes in them, I spent a lot of time putting tights on and taking them back off. Once I finally found black tights without holes in them, I just went with it. They appeared to be solid black in my eyes.