Later on this evening, you can catch me on Lucy Torres’ show, The Sweet Life (QTV 11), where we talked about how to live on a budget without going “losyang” as Lucy herself calls it.

It was an interesting evening when we taped the show, as I had a front row seat watching fashionistas talk about how they have fallen prey to the urge to splurge (but have since learned their lessons).

Giselle Sanchez, a schoolmate at UP Diliman, was as usual funny, smart and very much honest with her spending binges. She talked of how she ended up buying almost all of the bags in a Louis Vuitton shop in Italy (guess how much it cost her), because the snooty manager tried to boot her out of the store because he mistook her for a Filipina domestic helper. (You must watch the show to fully appreciate her effort—albeit costly—to defend Filipinas).
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