If your 4th-grade son needs a shoe box for a school project, and there is nary a shoe box to be found in your house, then buying a new pair of shoes purely for the shoe box is, in fact, entirely unselfish and should be deducted not from the clothing budget line-item but the Vitally Important Educational Items budget line-item. And it is purely an inconsequential coincidence if the shoes happen to be as rockin' cute as this:
*UPDATE* -- I'm sorry, I forgot to tell you that my oh-so-fabuloso educational shoes came from Target. Smart and cheap.
