The 2010 crazy clothes challenge

98jdougl

Can I join too please? A little late I know but not spent anything so far... aiming to join quite a few challenges this year to keep on track.

My budget is £179 to do both me and OH (including underwear since I have more than enough but keep buying anyway) it's £150 of our moey plus £29 left of christmas money from my mum that was for clothes.

I love buying from charity shops, although I never bought clothes there until I started working at one and seeing how fussy they are about what clothes would sell. Got a great next jumper from there last year that had the tags on - had been eyeing it up in the catalogue, but at £32 was waiting for the sale, once the sale came they sold out of my size (grrr) a month later bought it for £1.50 and i looovvvee it

twiglet98

I'll sign up to this too, though I don't foresee a problem - in 2009 I bought the grand total of two bras for £1.70 each, from a charity shop, two t-shirts from Mr T on a 2 for £5 offer, and a pair of fleece gloves for £1. DD got clothes for my birthday and Christmas, we share some things and she gives me hand-me-downs. Sold some bits on eBay too. Sorted!

solventsoon

Hi everyone,
Not spent anything so far but I haven't been out of the house since yesterday so no temptation. I have, however, been sorting through a wardrobe and found some things I will fit into if I lose a few pounds, so here goes for a new wardrobe :j.

Good luck to everyone for the next few days, sales are on everywhere and way too much temptation for us all.

Lula - see you've managed to spend 99p without declaring it - what have you been buying?? :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

NGlady

No problem, happy to help
Right... my target.
I know its high, but no way would I manage if it i made it any lower im looking for a job so need to be trendy for my sector also.. Well im on a dating site, so ill need nice things to wear for a date haha. I am going to say £250, this is going to include shoes underwear and tights etc.
Gawd this is going to be tough - good luck to those who are saying 100.00 mayb next year!
Just to confirm the £250 doesnt include any postage.

Blonde_Ambition

Hi. Can I join please? I think I may start to panic so I'll need to write this really fast so I don't change my mind! I've just read all the posts while wondering what my target should be. So here goes, I'll aim to spend £100 on everything except tights and shoes for work (I have a free uniform). I have a bit of a thing for buying underwear and pyjamas too so I'm going to include these within the £100 as I genuinely think I have enough to keep me going for a while.

I'm going to allow any money made on ebay or reward vouchers (I've got an M&S credit card - it's fab!) as extra. I also travel abroad a lot with work and tend to think of foreign money as not really counting so this has to change too. I like the idea of having £100 in cash so I can really see the amount go down if I am tempted.

Actually, I have just realised that £100 is a crazily low amount compared with what I would usually spend, so it's really important that I join!

Here goes (tries to click on send)!

niksyg

Very excited this morning as one of the 5 items of clothes I put on ebay yesterday has a bid and the others all have watchers!! Hoping to get the money back for the skirt I bought yesterday so I'll be back to 0 spend effectively! I get so overexcited about selling on ebay...such a kid lol!

Blonde_Ambition

Morning all! Have woken up this morning strangely excited about this challenge! Last year I made a resolution to go one month without buying any clothes, then cracked in the M&S sale and bought a dress and cardigan which were so masssively reduced I just HAD to have them. Funny thing is, they're hanging in my wardrobe with the labels still on! What a bargain?!?

I have got loads of clothes so I should be ok, only problem is I'm about half a stone too big for a lot of them so I suppose I'll have to tackle that then I'll be able to go shopping in my own wardrobe.

Also, I've realised that I may well replace one vice with another so I'm off to find the thread about not buying unnecessary toiletries.

Good luck all!

Pips_Mum

Hello All

I went to Matalan yesterday and they had a lovely green cardigan for £2!!! :eek: BUT I didnt buy it and now I wish I had What was I thinking, it was only £2! Shakes head in disgust and shuffles off muttering..................................

niksyg

Pips_Mum wrote: »

Hello All

I went to Matalan yesterday and they had a lovely green cardigan for £2!!! :eek: BUT I didnt buy it and now I wish I had What was I thinking, it was only £2! Shakes head in disgust and shuffles off muttering..................................

Amazing will power! :T

raphanius

can i squeeze in as a late entrant, i spend far too much on clothes and still need to kill my simply be account...i blame that joe brown for my clothes addiction :rolleyes:

Raphanius £100