Good advice from everyone!

I'm also fairly new to hunting. I'm also on a tight budget as well. I killed my first last year, and have two in the freezer this year. All three were shot when I was wearing jeans, a flannel shirt, an old blue camp coat, and hiking boots. One from a stand, one leaning over a hay bale, one standing up next to a barn in full view of the deer. No scent control, no grunt call, not antlers to rattle - just watching them over time to learn the patterns, being very still, and having some patience.

I'm not saying this is the ideal way of doing it, I'm just saying that it's possible to hunt deer successfully without expensive gear. As far as a cheap blind, Wallyworld has a big piece of camo burlap for like $10. That and some rope would give you a really cheap blind if you were backed up into some bushes. Just a thought.