The Crazy £100 Clothes Challenge

poorandindenial

I am originally from Surrey!!!

Now I'm in East London

ETA: I ate a whole terrys mint chocolate orange this evening - sugar overload! I'm with ya sistah!

Lula-Hula

poorandindenial wrote: »

I am originally from Surrey!!!

Now I'm in East London

ETA: I ate a whole terrys mint chocolate orange this evening - sugar overload! I'm with ya sistah!

A whole one :eek: that's just not fair I can forgive the blatant flouting of clothes challenge rules... but not so sure about excessive chocolate consumption when I'm on rations :mad: , bet you looked like this : :EasterBun:rotfl:

I really am going to bed ... as soon as that coffee wears off :rolleyes:

mum2one

Just wondering if they named a film after us
"confessions of a shopaholic"

Out 2mor, leave it to next wk. xx

fedupandskint

NO-BRAIN wrote: »

100 day challenge fedup-whats that, or is it exactly what it says on the tin?

Hi NO-BRAIN,

The 100 day challenge is exactly that! You decide what you do not want to spend money on for 100 days.Mine was ordering from shopping TV/buying skincare/cosmetics and I started on 1 Dec 08. Everyone else started on 1 Jan 09 as the other one was still running and I discovered it towards the end.

It has worked a treat for me and yes it has been hard, very hard at times not to revert back to how I was. It has been great for me to run this challenge alongside as it is reinforcing how I need to think if I need the item or not!

Instead of spending god knows how much (I'm scared to work out how much :eek: ) in 80 days which I did before, I've spent well under £10 on basics I have run out of eg cotton wool pads and deoderant, looking for offers but not stockpiling endlessly as before!

Sorry, I know this is a bit off thread/topic but i just wanted to let you know and see if it would help

As I said this thread helps me reinforce strongly the changes from the 100 day challenge Right I'm off now, sorry for the ramble!

Kerfuffle

Hello everybody,

Hi Lula-Hula, please can I join your challenge? I'm very late I know but I can assure you that I haven't bought any items of clothing during 2009. I'm also doing the 100 day challenge and clothes are one of my banned substances so hopefully the two challenges will enforce each other.

I last had my shopping spree in September when I bought some work clothes for a job that I didn't then get, I've also moved house so money is a little bit lacking in the Kerfuffle Household at the moment. When I was getting ready to move house a lot of my clothes were all nicely packed in plastic bags and put into storage, I got them out of storage recently and they are still all nicely packed in plastic so I'm going to keep them that way and then 'shop' out of my stash.

Good luck to everybody and keep up the good work and inspiring messages.

Toodles.

JaneLiz

Well, I'm still doing well and haven't bought anything! Okay, I did buy some tights yesterday - do they count or are they 'underwear'??

S_Wales_Saver

I have been keeping up with this thread without posting, cos I still haven't spent ANYTHING on clothes :j :j :j . This week I went into M&S (my downfall for food and clothes:o . I sent £15ish on food (I went in for pies but got some of the feed 4 for £4.00 offers for when I work late) saw some trousers I would normally have snapped up and two nice rugby tops. I told myself I have quite enough rugby tops (quite true) and came away without opening my purse:A . Having to post on here helped out the will power I'm sure LOL

Lula-Hula

JaneLiz wrote: »

Well, I'm still doing well and haven't bought anything! Okay, I did buy some tights yesterday - do they count or are they 'underwear'??

Tights are definitely underwear :j so knock yourself out with them

Welcome to Kerfuffle , I shall commit you immediately

Very well done to S_Wales_ Saver & JaneLiz for abstaining :A

lula
xx

Jen_31

Oh, i've bought somethings

Two tshirts, total of £6. I only have 3 tshirts to my name, now 5 :T

How much do i have left now, hehe :A

£94 :j



Sees im 44 on the list :T

luxor4t

Haven't been here for a while, DH has been dragging me past clothes shops to see if my resolution will break :rolleyes:

Did buy a raincoat as DD went off with mine & I found one for £25. Hope this counts as a coat otherwise I am going to have a very interesting, if chilly, summer as I shall have to take up naturism as none of my summer clothes fit.

Had revenge on DH for dragging me into clothes shops: he paid for a bathing costume for valentine's day & a denim skirt towards my birthday present


Is there a 'rules of the challenge' post anywhere top save me asking questions all the time?