Public Appearance?

There are many ways one can improve one's appearance, even if one has limited resources. I'm not talking about spending truck loads of money at the boutique shoppes at the North Park Mall. I'm not really talking about spending money at all! Looking presentable is a relatively simple concept which can be achieved by doing, and NOT doing, a few simple (free of charge) things:

1. Wear shoes. HOUSE shoes are house shoes for a reason - they are worn in a house, not to your child's school or to the super market. They would then be called "super market" shoes, or "pick up you kid at school" shoes.
2. Wash and comb your hair (more than once a month).
3. Wear enough clothing that you can be certain that any unsightly body parts (or extra parts of said parts) you may possess are covered in their entirety (my father referred to this lack of coverage as trying to stuff 10 pounds of sh** in a 5 pound bag).
4. Consider your age - if you are 30 plus and sharing clothes with your teenage daughter, you may want to rethink that (see #3).
5. Use an inside voice and watch your language. Being a loud mouth is unattractive in most circumstances and becomes even more so when the words out of your mouth are foul and inapropriate. My grandmother always said that you could guess a person's intellegence by the number of four letter words they used. It takes a few more brains to string together words with more than four letters, you see.

With all that being said, go on out there (after you consult a full length mirror) and make yourself a pleasant pressence in the world.