these are a few of my favorite [cheap] things...

[in no particular order]

BIC

blue crystal pens

i buy a pack of 10 twice a year

[when i am buying text books]

i use some up

[threw one away today]

i lose some

i lend some and never get them back

and i keep multiple pens everywhere

i think i might have about 25

vaseline

i can't imagine life without this goodness

i hate lip gloss

but this gives a nice glass

and it's better than chapstick

and makes your lips silky smooth

and it's good on scabs

and especially dry skin

and to mix a tad in with face lotion before going running in the dry, frigid cold of winter

and it's the perfect eye cream

[confession: one time about 3 years ago i was watching the tyra banks show and she had this as her secret weapon for an eye cream. and i said, "tyra, i'm already using it. yo go sista." so now tyra and i have this special bond. {and for the record--that was probably the last time i watched the trya banks show. phew.}]

just do not put it on a burn. it traps in the heat and makes it worse. i've learned from experience.

mini bobby pins.

love these little babies.

my hair is so thin and fine and smooth that the other guys just don't do it.