And introducing...

I'll start this off my just telling you about myself and how I ended up here.


Oh, just a note... I know there are 0 followers and all, but I'm just going to start out and keep going as though there are bajillionties of you and I'm like superfamous and shit. Don't judge me; I'm doing this for you!

Hello, my name is Jrex, and I am cheap. 

There, that's off my chest.

Read on for all the details!

I live in Austin, Texas (but I'm originally from Dallas) with my fiance and our three big mutts. I moved to the DC area several years ago for work, met my man, and got the hell out of there back to warmer (and cheaper!) climes as fast as I could. We've been back for about 3 years now, and I've now made a proper Texan out of him. I am not rich and I never have been, so I have always been a cheapskate, sometimes to an embarrassing fault!

It started at a very young age, possibly even in the womb, probably even earlier. My mother is the cheapest person I know, and she passed that virtue down to me with a vengeance. My mom is also one damn classy broad, and I am not, but I hope to one day become something a little closer.

I'm 33 years old, and I have only just begun - within the last 6 months or so - to really start trying to be a girl. I'm not trans or even lesbian (which surprises a lot of people), I'm just a regular ole privileged straight cis-female, but I am and always have been a huge, shameless tomboy. I work in a boys' industry, I kinda have a boy's voice, speech, and mannerisms, I have boy hobbies and interests, and until very recently I had pretty much all boys' clothes and even a boy's haircut. I just, for some reason, relatively suddenly started wanting to experiment with trends and looking pretty.

I have always HATED shopping. I could never find anything that fit, and if I did, it was too expensive, and if it fit and was affordable, it was hideous, and if... Shopping always used to make me feel frustrated depressed, often to the point of tears. 

See, I've never had the ability to see "it" in an item on a hanger; in fact I still don't, and I pretty much universally refuse to buy anything online that isn't modeled on a human or at the very least a dressform! I'm just now learning to take a mental inventory of my clothes and the things I need with me and to create potential outfits in my head - to shop! It's always been, 'well shit, my jeans are ripped and falling apart; time to buy new ones', which inevitably lead to me spending an entire day trying on - and hating bitterly - every thread of denim in a 100 mile radius.

But one day while looking for nerdy Game of Thrones merchandise on Etsy, I came across a wonderful shop full of adorable miniatures of things you find in nerdy books - in necklace form! They had the metals from the Mistborn series, Wildfire and Milk of the Poppy from Game of Thrones, and all kinds of other really awesome stuff that it turned out I could not resist. I bought the Milk of the Poppy necklace, but when it arrived, I realized that I had nothing to wear it with. I started searching and found a really cool black and white, lace trimmed shirt with tuxedo tails (in a sort of similar style to this) that matched the style of the pendant perfectly. Then, of course, I needed some pants or a skirt or something to go with that, and... well, it all got a little out of control, didn't it?!

Later I bought some nail polishes and started using them. I started watching trends from major designers and keeping an eye on what came out of Korea, and I began the long journey to overhauling my wardrobe. 

Just a couple weeks ago, I bought the very first article of makeup I've ever purchased for myself (for much cheaper than the link, of course). Everything I've ever owned up to that point has been either a gift from my mom (bless her heart, she always did want me to be girly) or someone's extras out of a bonus/promotion pack or something. But tonight, I realized that I actually had some pretty sweet tricks for improving very cheap makeup, AND I looked in the mirror after trying out a couple new eyeshadow colors and saw very clearly that my lipstick didn't match! I can't tell you what a breakthrough that is!

And now I am actually sitting at my computer typing, honestly hoping to be able to help other brokeass babes and cheap chicks with makeup tricks and shopping advice.

Until next time, you brokeass babes and cheap chicks, Oh the times, they are a-changin!