What is fabuLESSness?
If you’re new to fabuLESSness, welcome!
FabuLESSness is NOT the same as frugality. Frugal is frumpy, wears bad shoes and eats cheap cuts of meat. FabuLESSnesss can be fashionably dressed, eat whole grains and organic foods, carry designer handbags, wear killer shoes, travel in style, drive luxury vehicles (okay, occasionally minivans), eat out for dinner, and go “green.” If you’re fabuLESS, you can do this all while actually spending LESS than the person who shops exclusively at Walmart or thrift stores. You’ll never look or feel frugal, because you’re NOT cheap. You’re just smart.
Usually when people trim their budgets, they eliminate all the fun stuff—the little luxuries that make us happy and keep us sane. Manicures, massages, date nights, vacations, and restaurants are given up so we can still afford the basic necessities. While cutting back makes sense to some extent, it also feels like deprivation—because it IS deprivation. It’s like being on a strict diet—and dieting is not generally a lot of fun. Being fabuLESS is like learning that you can eat chocolate yet still lose weight.
The FabuLESS™ strategy on how to spend less dispels many of the commonly held beliefs of frugality. Being fabuLESS does NOT mean trading name brand for generic, lugging around a 20-pound coupon binder, scouring thrift stores, or driving to 18 stores to save 18 cents. FabuLESSness minimizes your effort while maximizing your results. You will learn some stunningly simple ways to save money, without having it take over your entire life. With a slight twist to the way that you currently shop and think, you will start easily slashing your grocery bills by 50%, save 80% or more on your household goods and toiletries, and 75% or more on your clothing bills—all without having to give up your favorite brands—or even upgrade to better name brands, and all while shopping at “expensive” stores.
It not only provides a philosophy of how to shop better, but also provides a step-by-step action plan for every type of shopping you do regularly. You will learn how to start amping up your purchasing power in a way that’s designed to fit into the busy lives that modern women live, as it’s written by a real person—a working married mother of three young children, not by some financial wonk that’s talking about this in broad strokes and lofty concepts, but rather by someone who is living it daily and fitting it in to her own hectic life. You decide how fabuLESS you want to be—even if you put in a minimum of effort, you can still save BIG. Willing to go further to be even more fabuLESS? That’s where you’ll simultaneously see both your spending plummet and your quality of life improve.
You can start shopping better, in the stores that you know and love, right this instant. You’ll save BIG simply by tweaking your shopping pattern in a stunningly simple way: just shop proactively. While you’ll allow the sales cycle to dictate WHEN you buy, you still decide WHAT to buy. Rational stockpiling of all those items that are “stockuppable” (anything non-perishable) will save you both time and money.
This is not a website about couponing, and as a fabuLESS shopper, you do not HAVE to use coupons if you choose not to do so and you’ll still save big. But if you choose to use them (and I suggest that you do!), I’ll show you an extraordinarily efficient way to do so. I’ll show you the fabuLESS way to shop by using matchups and how to UNclip your coupons—no more clipping and sorting those flimsy slips of paper. Most of the hard work is done for you—no more coupon binders or investing time to find coupons that may or may not even exist. If you draw up your shopping list using the fabuLESS method, you will spend only a few minutes extra to save up to 60 to 70% every time you shop at your favorite “expensive” grocery and drug stores. Wouldn’t you rather invest 30 minutes a week into the fabuLESS method of shopping to save a hundred dollars (or more!) rather than dropping your cleaning service and spending seven hours to clean your house for that same level of savings? Thought so!
One other thing: You will NOT have to wash your hair with dish soap, make your own laundry detergent, or split two-ply toilet paper into one-ply. Oh, hell no. FabuLESSness is rational and sane. There are far easier and less arduous ways to save money than making your own laundry soap—ones that take less time and save you more. This is not about deprivation, it’s about saving big on the items that you HAVE to buy so you have the money for the things that you WANT to buy, and then saving on those items, too. Oh, and I don’t “do” one-ply; some things are NOT worth saving on.
You can go out for dinner for pennies on the dollar, travel fabuLESSly well, save on your utilities, use a store’s policies to your advantage without taking advantage of the store, use coupons without clipping, learn what “google cooking” is and how it will rock your world, throw parties big on the fun and small on the cost, learn how going green saves you green and even where to get spa services for free. Sound impossible? It happens to be easily achievable—it will even be fun! Ready to start? Let’s go!
