The "B" Word - BUDGET! Beautiful on a Budget - best of series
Decorating Tips and Tricks
Bespoke FM
4.6 • 827 Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
We all have a budget, and it's so hard to stick to it. Today we're talking about how to not blow your budget, and we've got some of our favorite tips to share. Staying on budget means that you need to think about the long haul, and not about instant gratification. Sometimes you have to wait for that special thing. Don't fall into the trap of buying filler pieces that you don't don't really like. It's okay to have empty spaces in your home.
Be sure you know what items cost, then you'll know it when you see a good price.
We've done a few other episodes on budget decorating that you can find below.
Fresh budget decorating ideas HERE
Budget decor with style HERE
Best budget ideas HERE
Champagne taste on a beer budget HERE
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Kelly is crushing on the book At Home in the Garden HERE
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| 0:00.0 | Let's not spend it all on one thing. |
| 0:10.1 | Hey everybody. |
| 0:11.1 | I'm Kelly Wilkins here with Anita Joyce, and this is decorating tips and tricks. |
| 0:15.3 | How Not to Blow Your Decorating Budget. |
| 0:18.5 | Budget. |
| 0:19.4 | Not my favorite word, but we've got ways around it. |
| 0:22.7 | This is certainly something I've struggled with. |
| 0:26.1 | I think everybody does, right? |
| 0:28.2 | Yeah, yay. |
| 0:28.9 | Well, there's that, you know, beautiful thing that you want, and it's like three times as much |
| 0:33.7 | as the other thing that you don't really like at all. |
| 0:36.8 | Okay, so, yeah, budget. |
| 0:39.2 | Everybody's got one. |
| 0:40.8 | We recently, not too long ago, talked about specific things that you can buy and do and |
| 0:47.7 | dealing with a decor budget. |
| 0:49.3 | And people really responded to that episode. |
| 0:51.5 | So we thought we'd approach it from this angle now today. Yeah, |
| 0:56.6 | I think it's kind of, so today I think what we're talking about are more of kind of philosophies |
| 1:01.6 | and kind of more higher level thinking about how you keep from getting in this situation |
| 1:06.9 | where you've gone over budget. Before it was like a lot of budget tricks that you can do in your |
| 1:12.2 | house, but this is kind of more of stepping back and kind of putting a plan together where you're |
| 1:18.3 | going to take care of the budget. So I found that some of my approach with keeping the staying on |
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