The $10 Shopping Challenge

How would you spend $10 to decorate?

That was my challenge to my Sweet Moda Link Up friends Ashlee of Sweet Southern Oaks and Liz of Living With Liz. For our last blog link-up, we each wrote about thrifting. Thrifting is such a great way to stretch your decorating budget. I like that using second-hand finds keeps those items out of the landfill. And it is a great way to add character to your decor. Giving your home a look that is all yours.

What if you only had $10 to shop and decorate with?

Where would you go?

How would you make sure to get the most of your money?

That’s our challenge. Just $10 to find and style a little something in our homes. Now, I knew that I could go thrifting once again. Go and hit up my favorite thrift stores to look for something unique to decorate with. And you know how I love going to thrift stores and estate sales. For this challenge, I decided to go another route and buy something new that I don’t often find at the second-hand stores. Soap.

Soap? Yup, hand soap.

Hand soap bottle from Home Goods
Look at that vintage style label, love it!

There are some home decor items that can get over-looked. I feel like the hand-soap bottle is one of them. It is such a small detail that can add so much to your kitchen or bathroom decor. It’s one item that I look for when I go to discount stores like Home Goods and TJ Maxx.

Look at this dark brown apothecary glass bottle that I found with its vintage style typography label. Vintage in style and color- yet new!

Vintage style soap bottle from Home Goods
At $7.99 it was under the $10 challenge budget- score!

This is a large 32-ounce bottle of hand soap for just $7.99. That should last quite a while- so for me, it’s a pretty good bargain. The bottle itself is so pretty and if it were bought separately it could have been at least $8. A pretty bottle and hand soap- score!!! And then when the bottle is empty I can refill it with bargain grocery store soap. Money well spent if you ask me!

Mixing Vintage and Bohemian styles

Bathroom decor- soap bottle, towel, and jars.
The dark brown bottle adds a vintage touch to our boho bathroom

I have styled my new apothecary-style hand-soap bottle in our bohemian decorated bathroom. Mixing decor styles is another way to add a unique twist to make your home a style that is all yours.

Brown hand soap bottle in the bathroom
Boho bathroom style

We’re renting our cute little MCM home. So, I can’t make any permanent changes. I have used these removable tiles in both our kitchen and here in our bathroom. They add a nice pop of color and pattern that I crave. My new brown glass apothecary bottle brings out all of the earth tone colors from the tiles. The brown glass is also a good match for the jar metal lids.

Boho bathroom decor
My $10 challenge complete!

Well, what do you think?

I love that for under $10 I was able to get something both pretty and practical. My bathroom now has a cute refresh for fall.

Let’s see what the ladies have been up to with their $10 challenge

Ashlee of Sweet Southern Oaks

Sweet Southern Oaks- thrift store vases painted for fall
Sweet Southern Oaks

My friend Ashlee of Sweet Southern Oaks has done a little thrift store upcycle for you. Using thrift store vases and spray paint- all for under $10! Sounds like my kind of project!

Be sure and follow Ashlee over on Instagram- @sweetsouthernoaks

Liz of Living With Liz

Living With Liz

Our sweet friend Liz of Living With Liz has been giving her bar cart a little fall refresh with her $10. How cute are those pumpkins with that plaid napkin? Those colors are on point. Love it!

(And don’t get me started on how much I love the bar cart itself! Ugh! It’s giving me all the feels)

Go and give Liz some love and a follow over on Instagram- @living_with_liz

The $10 challenge is now complete!

Bathroom decor

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