The Completely Crazy 2012 Clothes Challenge

Adela31

gah depression, my new larger gym kit... isnt as larger as it should be! (not enough bum room )

I need to getrid of my recent weight gain, but depressed about being fat means I eat more!

mcculloch29

Hello there - some familiar names from the No Toiletries thread here!
I'd love to join in. A budget of £100 for the year seems reasonable - I haven't spent anything on clothes in January.

My problem is an addiction to bargains - also my size has changed in recent years, so that was an excuse to buy more. I looked for size 16-18 clothes in outlets I'd dismissed previously
I discovered that the X Catalogue shops, (JD Williams catalogues) which always looked full of tat, had the odd hidden gem. Then I unearthed more gems - £50 wool mix trousers for under a fiver, so I'd buy four pairs.
£50 jeans for £12, £25 tops for a fiver, £16 blouses for £1.99, long skirts for 99p and I don't even wear skirts outside the house... you get the picture.
This chain is just in the North East and Cumbria and has phenomenal bargains. 98% of it I wouldn't wear, but as I've said elsewhere, 2% is a lot of stock in those shops!

Then Primarni.... I have so many tops, cardigans, jumpers and trousers from there, mostly the more expensive things for the last year or two, thanks to all the money I saved in the X Catalogue place... Sigh.

Not to mention David Emanuel at Bon Marche - only in the sales though.
It's got to stop. I've given loads of bits and pieces away and I've had to leave clothes un-ironed as I can't physically fit them in the wardrobes. Note the plural.
Psychologically it probably comes down to having very little to wear for probably the first forty or so years of my life. (I'm 54 this year) I've made up for lost time a bit too well.
So here I am.

As far as I can judge, I need nothing for this year but something will probably emerge, a year is a long time.... Hence a £100 budget.

Antwacky

Yay! Month 1 down with no spends!:T

Only 11 to go!

Today I'm wearing the same freedom shoes as yesterday and the freedom skirt and top from a couple of weeks ago.

ThinkingOfLinking

Hi McCulloch!! I know what you mean...I never had a lot of clothes when I was a kid so now I stock up...it's also because I find it hard to get clothes which fit me...so when I find something like a pair of jeans or a plain classic T shirt, I will buy several in case they get discontinued or changed.

I had to buy a suit and blouse as work uniform the other week and I'll have to get more stuff too soon....I don't need any casual items but looking ahead, I need a black suit, a pair of sandals, a pair of brown shoes and a nude vest top (for wearing underneath anything).

rosemary54

Flickering_Ember wrote: »

Hi McCulloch!! I know what you mean...I never had a lot of clothes when I was a kid so now I stock up...it's also because I find it hard to get clothes which fit me...so when I find something like a pair of jeans or a plain classic T shirt, I will buy several in case they get discontinued or changed.

when we were young most of our clothes came from hand me downs or jumble sales and my mother always made out we were hard up.I did not thnk about it at the time but when my dad retired and was worried how they would cope on less money mum showed him the bank book with thousands stashed away:eek:He was very upset that they had struggled all their lives,never been abroad etc and just before his death a few years later he said "I,ve never had so much money in my pocket but now I am too ill to spend it!".....makes you think?!!!

Now that our sons are (almost!) independent my husband and I do want we want,go on nice holidays ,buy clothes we like etc.we are not and have never been in debt and do have pensions set up but no way am I saving like mum did as you never know when your time will be up(pink candle indeed!)

scotmumof3

rosemary I know what you mean about the hand me downs theres nothing wrong with then but when you get to teenage years and the clothes are JUST out of fashion because your sister/cousin had them first it can make you feel terrible.:( I know that parents do the best they can but sometimes they just don't understand the impact it can have. It's taken me years to realise that I don't now have to have the most up to date clothes to make me feel better ( I still have a shoe thing going on though!!) I am going to try for a no spend feb I managed to spend little in jan so hopefully I can keep this up

Adela31

Did Anyone watch the Jimmy Saville program the other night? The 70s, looking at what people were wearing even for going on the telly, or the group of kids meeting Maggie (pre PM) ... Gods we was poor!

I know we always struggled because we really struggled, but we had a holiday every year (even if my mum was a superscrimper the other 51 weeks of the year)

Wellyboots6

Reading through peoples posts, people have some lovely items in their wardrobes for freedom days!

I really need to start on freedom days as the BF commented the other day how I always wear the same things.

I don't know that I do actually have much decent to set free though

Trying for a No Spend Feb, so really do need to have a rummage through my wardrobe.

Not sure how my £99 are going to last me a year though. My two decent-ish jumpers are getting a right wearing at the moment, and come summer, my vests and t-shirts from last year are pretty worn. They also have holes in as the dog went through a phase of helping unload the washing machine!

I might be really tight and sit down and do an inventory of whats in my wardrobe and try and work out exactly what I need to buy.

Or is that a bit overkill?

Eltee12

Afternoon All

£13 on a few pairs of warm, long socks, just in time for icy-toes weather

running total £159.28/£300

aiming for no-spend Feb & March :eek:

Freedom day today - wearing new black trousers with grey fluffy-ish top.

scotmumof3

katy721 wrote: »

Reading through peoples posts, people have some lovely items in their wardrobes for freedom days!

I really need to start on freedom days as the BF commented the other day how I always wear the same things.

I don't know that I do actually have much decent to set free though

Trying for a No Spend Feb, so really do need to have a rummage through my wardrobe.

Not sure how my £99 are going to last me a year though. My two decent-ish jumpers are getting a right wearing at the moment, and come summer, my vests and t-shirts from last year are pretty worn. They also have holes in as the dog went through a phase of helping unload the washing machine!

I might be really tight and sit down and do an inventory of whats in my wardrobe and try and work out exactly what I need to buy.

Or is that a bit overkill?

You might find a lot more in there than you thought and at least then you will know exactly what you need and when to say NO to those impulse buys