The Crazy £100 Clothes Challenge

Kerfuffle

Hi Jen-31

It's the same old story isn't it, when you've got the money, the time or the inclination to go shopping you can never find anything. That's life I'm afraid, just to keep you on your toes.

Lula-Hula is away at the moment, I'm sure she'll amend your spend total when she gets back.

Enjoy wearing the things you did manage to get, make it worth while.

Toodles

Lula-Hula

Hello everyone,

I'm back from a lovely relaxing holiday & amazingly I didnt put on any weight & even more amazingly I didnt buy any clothes at all . I did have a wander in a few shops but nothing appealed .

Happy New Clothes to museumworker & Jen-31, will update your totals in a bit, & Very Happy New Freebie Clothes :jto Puss14 & hurray for your lovely dad too :T.

Welcome to Miss-spent, the more the [STRIKE]madder[/STRIKE] merrier . I am very impressed with your personal challenge & if I am honest I could probably do that myself if I actually shifted that pesky stone that I carry about with me :mad::rolleyes:. Thanks for that info about the clothes categories :T.

For some strange reason I love to clear out my wardrobe after a holiday & I've got rid of even more stuff & some shoes & boots too ... in spite of all this decluttering I still have plenty of clothes & will be aiming to spend as little as possible next year.

I have 2 huge stumbling blocks when it comes to my clothes; 1) I still dont fit into a lot of them :mad: & 2) because I work from home I tend to not make enough effort with my oufits & consequently get bored with what I do wear everyday which leads me to think I need to buy more clothes :rolleyes:.



Enough rambling off to page 1 to update the totals,

Thank you Kerfuffle for taking care of the thread in my absence :A

lula
xx

Kerfuffle

Hey you're back,

I was begining to get worried for a moment there.

Glad you had a good time though, it's been very quiet on here so not much' taking care' required, I think we've all just been waiting for you to come back.

Good that you resisisted spending on any new clothes, well done.

Take care.

Toodles

Miss-spent_2

Hi Lula Hula welcome back. Only one more day to go and then I will have spent nothing on clothes in August (have bought a foundation make up and neck lace but no-more of those will happen.)
I went back to the gym yesterday and found I am now one and a half stone overweight! Help! So come on Lula-we can do it, Come Sep first, new term, new start lets aim for a stone off by Christmas.

Lula-Hula

Miss-spent wrote: »

Hi Lula Hula welcome back. Only one more day to go and then I will have spent nothing on clothes in August (have bought a foundation make up and neck lace but no-more of those will happen.)
I went back to the gym yesterday and found I am now one and a half stone overweight! Help! So come on Lula-we can do it, Come Sep first, new term, new start lets aim for a stone off by Christmas.

Yay :j for a new motivational peep who will keep me on the right path, thanks Miss-spent :A. If I lose a stone by Christmas then I will achieve my goal & be back at the size that fits all my clothes .


Just need to go drink some more peppermint tea now to help dissolve my headache - self induced

fedupandskint

Lula-Hula wrote: »

Yay :j for a new motivational peep who will keep me on the right path, thanks Miss-spent :A. If I lose a stone by Christmas then I will achieve my goal & be back at the size that fits all my clothes

Miss-spent wrote: »

I went back to the gym yesterday and found I am now one and a half stone overweight! Help! So come on Lula-we can do it, Come Sep first, new term, new start lets aim for a stone off by Christmas.

I could do with this too - NEED TO LOSE A STONE!!!!!!!

Better try a bit harder with the weightloss

Welcome back Lula - it sounds like a great holiday!

No clothes spends for me for August, another month over and done with. Definitely asking for clothes or money for clothes for my birthday to buy a nice winter skirt and a thinish jumper to wear with it as have stocked up on half price winter tights in Sainsbugs and have a couple of pairs of boots to wear with them. One skirt I love, would just like another one!

Miss-spent_2

Hi, been to the gym today again-yesterday I did weights and today did C.V. work, didn't have time or energy to do both on one trip. Also walked to church and back which must be over a mile. Really got stiff legs. I am going to try and go to the gym three times a week- I pay £40 a month so should try and get my money's worth. I have dug out an unused sun/yoga mat that I got free from MOS years ago and want to do some sit ups the days I do not go to gym.

There are 16 weeks to Christmas week so a loss of 1LB a week is more than a stone gone.

I am going to dig out all my W watchers stuff from yesteryear and start tracking. (I don't want to pay to go to classes although they are very good.)

Sorry if I shouldn't be posting slimming stuff on a clothes thread.

"Just need to go drink some more peppermint tea now to help dissolve my headache - self induced "

I read somewhere that drinking two cups of green tea burns up approx 600 cals a week-as I don't mind it I am giving it a go.

Determined_2b_Debt_Free

Can I join in on this too please...

Many thanks :-)

Lula-Hula

Determined_2b_Debt_Free wrote: »

Can I join in on this too please...

Many thanks :-)

Hello & welcome to the Crazies :rotfl:

Will add you to the membership list in a minute

Miss-spent - you are very good, I really wish I could afford gym membership again - was a toned & trim person whose clothes all fit beautifully & I could eat anything. 2 years on .... :eek::(

I will get back into shape & my clothes by the end of this year.

Glad to hear you're joining us too Fedupandskint :A

bye for now

lula
xx

the_cat

I have spent the last few days reading the entire thread and am now really inspired to slash my clothes costs. I have never really looked at ebay seriously for clothes but after reading here I have looked properly and am shocked at what is available.

I need to revamp my wardrobe for winter and have been given some money (£215) for my birthday. Before reading this thread that would have given me maybe 2 outfits, but not now!

I won't join the challenge officially as I have lost weight recently and now nothing fits very well. Also every year I buy a 'few':eek: bits for my holidays so have lots of summer things and almost nothing for winter. Maybe next year.

But there is no doubt I will spend much less having read this!:T

Only problem is I now have 78 things in my ebay watch list!!!!!!!