Rebecca

Rag Day

When I was in Italy, I discovered by chance, the perfect mirror-cleaning cloth: a soft, old, worn-out, ribbed tank top. And who doesn’t have an abundance of them these days? (In Mielke World, the term “an abundance” always gets snickers; what we really mean is “a bu**load”.) It occurs to me that, in the course …

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The $10 Prom

Just for fun, a church youth group held an event they called The $10 Prom.  To attend, your outfit needed to cost you no more than $10. What the ladies wore:  Purchased from Goodwill that afternoon for $8, with my grandma’s old shoes. My sister’s old prom dress, with the sleeves removed and approximately $3 worth …

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