The 2010 crazy clothes challenge

mrsinvisible

please add me into this challenge and as the year is1/6th over I will say no more than £85 for the rest of the year .As I have lost 2 stone and gone down 2-3 sizes since Sept last year I dont have many summer clothes that fit, so this could be an interesting one for me.

raven-333

No new spends for me.

debbiedeejay

I had to go to York today for a family thing and for an hour and half I walked round the shops and not once was I bothered about clothes - how wierd is that?

Mind you the place was heaving and I was glad to get away in the end.

cannp123165

I still haven't bought any clothes, although I was lucky and got some free shoes and socks on an MS the other day.

vasseur

Please add me to this. I think I've only spent £10 this year so far anyway. My sister came round a few weeks ago with a huge black sack of stuff she was throwing out - some of it still had the labels on!!! :T I also got a really nice T-shirt from a friend last week so I feel like I've had my clothes fix for now....phew

Lula-Hula

luxor4t wrote: »

Lula blinked, so I pounced

*Lula puts matchsticks on her shopping list*

Happy New Cardi Luxor4t :j

I'm relieved that you are finally declaring something - I thought you were going to sneak & cunning your way through an entire year :rotfl:

Welcome to newcomers rocketbabydoll, mrsinvisible & polesalot :wave:

DD now has new school shoes :j& anew top to wear to a party next week end. I also have a new top for work, both £8 & both from Next, which is exactly where it is in relation to the shoe shop; knew I couldnt resist 2 days in a row . Now just need to find where I wrote down my work clothes spends so I know how much is left ...

Chillout5892

Firstly, hello to everyone on this thread. Gulp.

Secondly, I kinda doubt that during my first year I'll meet this challenge. Since July I've shrunk from a size 24 to 18! It's likely I may become a 14. It's out of my control and the result of an worrying medical condition. (In fact the weight gain was as well.) However... The last time I was a size 18 I was a D cup and now I'm an H!!!

I've spent the last 3 years in and out of hospital, and when I've been well enough I've thrown every penny I had at redecorating the flat. I'm at the end of a very satisfactory makeover (thank you Wilkinsons) and now, I'm due the same. But for the last few years I've sat around in paint splattered joggers and old jumpers. Decorating clothes. I didn't care what I looked like, just had to get the job done. But let's face it, I don't want to be single for ever and I'm not going to attract anyone looking like I did.

This week, I got my hair cut (local college hairdressing course £4) I dug out an old favourite pair of jeans from years ago, but when I put them on, I forgot they came up to my waist! Talk about an 80s throwback, so I ad to get a pair from Prim... and I think is was £8 well spent on a pair of slouchers.

My problem is I LOVE nice things! Mia maxima culpa! So.... I've decided (and this is a financial decision as well as a stylistic one). My best way forward is to make most of what I want to wear. Although this is initially more expensive than buying, if it's based on style rather than fashion, for me those items have a far longer life. Over the past year I've been buying Vogue patterns on special offers and have a great capsule wardrobe to make, but it should last a good few years as long as my weight remains pretty constant. (Although the good think about dressmaking is that if you make it you know how to alter it.)

I've gone through my carefully saved wardrobe and actually I have far fewer items than I thought. Skirts, I'm OK. No trousers, no dresses, no jackets, no blouses, in-fact, not really any tops at all, just a very odd selection of jumpers. So it's starting afresh.

So really, I need to keep a good eye on this site, to keep me under some sort of control. The only thing I would love to have is an adjustable tailors dummy, but I think once I get a car with my DLA I'll try begging on freecycle.

Maybe I should start a girly thread for pennypinching makeovers! Whatcha think?

wit40iwtwan

I spent £23.60 on a pure cashmere cardi earlier in Feb... it was marked down from £125 in the darker of the two grays... LOVE it and wear it often... great find when it was in sale!

http://www.marksandspencer.com/Autograph-Cashmere-Longline-Waist-Cardigan/dp/B002W382OY?ie=UTF8&qid=1267337458&categoryNodeID=42967030&ref=sr_1_14&page=&node=42967030&sr=1-14&mnSBrand=core&rh=n%3A42966030%2Ck%3Acashmere%2Cn%3A42967030%2Cp_94%3ACashmere

For the boys and OH I have spent on them - mainly jeans and boxers!

Next weekend there is a vintage sale in the town hall - I suspect I may end up spending then!

Jacey53

Hi

Just checking in as I still haven't spent anything. Been wearing the same few pairs of trousers since the beginning of the year (have washed them of course).

Jacey

NGlady

Luna...
I think your power of resistance was with me big time yesterday I went to meadowhall, and my overall spend £16... my overall clothes spend £0, returns £90. I just couldnt find anything I loved enough to justify