Many women enjoy wearing cute shoes with their outfits, whether their shoes are boots, heels, sandals, espadrilles, or platform shoes. However, high quality shoes can get expensive fast, so what’s a girl to do when she wants to have a stylish shoe collection but she’s not exactly made of money?

Affordable and fashionable can definitely go together once again, if you are willing to spend a few minutes analyzing your current shoe collection and strategically planning your next shoe shopping trip.

Love them or hate them, heels are a staple of a stylish women’s outfit, and they come in countless shapes and sizes. You can add to your collection later, but to start out with, you need at least three pairs of classy heels: in brown, black, and white. Black heels are usually be conservative and classic.

White heels go well with light-colored dresses and slacks, and I usually advise getting a strappy pair of sandals or espadrilles so that they can also perform the function of being open-toed, too. Most women don’t have the opportunity to wear light-colored heels much, otherwise.

Brown shoes should always be worn with brown outfits, because brown and black clashing looks terrible and unintentional.

Most women should also find a pair of dressy sandals that they can wear with summer and spring outfits without to look dress without appearing formal or stiff. One pair of white dress sandals and at least one other pretty but not bold color are the minimum women’s shoes necessary to dress in the warmer months.

Matching is usually the way to go, but don’t become a slave to ingrained dress codes. If you have a pair of unusual shoes that you love, wear them with whatever you want, and make your own style. The only caveat is to make sure nothing else you’re wearing is too bold or “out there” – don’t overdo it!

Charity shops and specialty pre-owned shoes retailers receive shoes every year that are in perfectly good shape, and you can find amazing shoes for extremely low prices at resale ships like these if you are willing to take the time to look. You might love a pair that went out of fashion ten years ago, but the style might well be coming back in! And at the same time, you get to reuse and recycle a perfectly good pair of shoes.

Every major designer’s shoes are available for sale on online auction sites like eBay, and you might also have some luck on online message boards. Charity shops are a lottery, and you might never find anything worthwhile there, but you will definitely find new, cute shoes at outlets of major designers so that you can get the name brand for a lot cheaper.

If you just want the look of Kate Spade, Burberry, or other high-end designers, knock-off shoes are easy to find through street vendors and online. The quality is often not comparable to the originals, but it usually isn’t bad, either.

Don’t forget, a good cleaning and polishing make a huge difference on your shoes’ appearance. Give old shoes one last chance to impress you, and you may be surprised to find that you don’t need to go shoe shopping after all!

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Money seems to be getting tighter and tighter and the economy does not appear to be getting any better. This can make it difficult to afford new items for the family. Of course bills are always going to be paid, but there is typically not a budget for entertainment and pleasure purchases. There are now penny auctions that will allow a family to get the cheap electronics for pleasure that would not otherwise be afforded.

When purchasing cheap electronics from a penny auction, the opening bid will always only be one penny. If there is only one bid, then the auction is going to close with only one cent being spent on the article that is being bid on will only be a penny. The only other expenditure will be the cost of shipping winning product to the home.

There are many different ways to ship an item so those who really need to save money can do so by choosing the least expensive shipping option. If the cheap electronics where purchased from an online store, the shipping would still need to be paid. The only difference is that the item would not cost a penny!

There are many other places where bidding is allowed to purchase products at a great discount from buying them elsewhere. A great deal can be had, but there is minimum that has to be met before the item is sold. The person who is offering the product for sale can say that they are not going to sell it unless the set price is reached.

These other auctions also do not start at one penny. They sell their cheap electronics but typically have a starting price of at least ninety nine cents. While this is not much, it can mean that the electronics are going to sell for more if there are many bids on the auction.

When going to a penny auction, the starting big will always be only one cent. When there are no other bids on the item, then the full price after the auction closes is going to be that one cent and no more. It would be difficult to find these types of sales in any other medium, including the Internet.

Anyone that is looking for cheap electronics is going to get a much better deal at a penny auction. There is no other way to get them as cheaply even if they go to one of the larger Internet auction sites where the starting bid is not one cent. The only places where these prices are always going to be one cent are those penny auction sites.

Wavee.Com features some of the best items of any penny auction. Whether you are looking for cheap electronics, a cheap laptop or anything else, Wavee.com should be your new online shopping home.

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If you really want to use the tips and tricks on how to win BIG in Swoopo, you need to learn the basics. If you are new in the Swoopo system, I suggest you better visit their website Swoopo.com and spend at least half an hour observing the different auctions.

To start with the Swoopo basics, here are a few steps to remember. a) All auctions start at 12 cents with no reserve (minimum) price, b) The auction timer starts at 24 hours and counts down, c) Bids cost $0.60 each, d) In a standard auction, each bid increases the price of the item by 2, 6, 12 and 24 cents( Penny auctions are also available), e) Each bid adds up to 20 seconds to the clock (The time added varies by auction and is noted in a clock symbol on each page), f) When time expires, the last person to bid wins the item.

Next step is to purchase your bids for your account so that you will be ready when you find an auction you’re interested in. Swoopo sells “BidPacks” of 40, 75, 150, 400 and 1,000 that you can purchase with a credit card or via PayPal online payment. Remember though that all bids are non-refundable.

Bidding in Swoopo

There are two ways of bidding on Swoopo. First is the single bids, which are easy to use and suggested for beginners, and the the BidButler tool, an automated bidder mostly used by the pros. Single bids can be placed individually and manually at any time during an auction. On the other hand, BidButler is auto-bidding tool that will automatically place a bid on your behalf when the auction timer is less than 10 seconds.

BidButler varies the way the exact second when it casts its bids (it could be nine seconds on timer or it could be at least very last second). It is just between the last ten seconds. You don’t have to worry about time running out as long as you have an active BidButler running – it will bid for you at some point during the last 10 seconds. Also, BidButler can be manually set up by choosing a start and end price. You just need to choose the number of bids you’re willing to let the BidButler use. Numbers must be between 2 and 50 bids. Your BidButler will be activated when the current auction reaches the amount you choose.

Different Auction Types in Swoopo

These are the different kinds of Auctions you can bid with in Swoopo:

a) Beginner Auction – recommended to Swoopo users who have yet to win an auction on Swoopo where competition is much less fierce and also less experienced,

b) Penny Auction – in this type of auction, the price of the item is increased only one cent for each bid instead of the standard $0.12,

c) Standard Auction – each bid in a standard auction raises the price by 2, 6, 12 or 24 cents where a red banner across the left side of the screen lists the bid amount,

d) Nailbiter Auction – only single bids can be used in this auction and the use of a BidButler is prohibited,

e) Open Auction – Swoopo sets a limit on the number of auctions you can win in a given month (around 8 auctions) where you can bid regardless of how many other auctions you’ve won that month,

f) Closed Auction – This type of auction will become closed to new bidders at an unknown point of time which only those users who have placed at least one bid can continue to bid,

And lastly (that was quite a lot),

g) International and Local Auctions – International allows bidders from all Swoopo countries to participate where a globe icon will be shown at the top right-hand side of the screen. In addition, local auctions only allow Swoopo bidders from a specific country to participate in which shown with the relevant country flag.

So there you go with the basics of bidding in Swoopo. Good luck placing your bids and get started with Swoopo by clicking here.

You might want to check Swoopo Manual and learn the powerful secrets used by top Swoopo bidders to win BIG in Swoopo.