The Completely Crazy 2015 Clothes Challenge

somerandom

Bought a lovely dusty blue linen dress in the CS - £4.99. It fits like a glove & has got the makings of a "wear it to death" item. I am however, now at just over £100 of a £120 annual budget. :eek:

My budget was a complete guess as I'd no idea as to how much I spent on clothes. I'm now thinking it must have been really quite a lot given that I'm buying a fraction of what I did in the past - I didn't realise because they were almost all CS bargains and each item was very little !!

Azzzaa

I picked up 16 pieces of mens clothing for £15.84 in a charity shop, some nice pieces too, river island, abercrombie and fitch and a trespass down coat. All on ebay and facebook so we'll see how it goes ;D

Rowan_moon

somerandom wrote: »

Bought a lovely dusty blue linen dress in the CS - £4.99. It fits like a glove & has got the makings of a "wear it to death" item. I am however, now at just over £100 of a £120 annual budget. :eek:

My budget was a complete guess as I'd no idea as to how much I spent on clothes. I'm now thinking it must have been really quite a lot given that I'm buying a fraction of what I did in the past - I didn't realise because they were almost all CS bargains and each item was very little !!

The dress sounds like a great find.
I know what you mean about not knowing how much you used to spend on clothes. Sometimes just adding up the cs purchases surprises me. If nothing else, this thread seems to be making us all more conscious of what we spend and what we choose.

Rowan_moon

I bought a Phase Eight silk top for £5 and white stuff skirt for £4.50 to add to my total spends.

somerandom

Rowan_moon wrote: »

The dress sounds like a great find.
I know what you mean about not knowing how much you used to spend on clothes. Sometimes just adding up the cs purchases surprises me. If nothing else, this thread seems to be making us all more conscious of what we spend and what we choose.

That's how I'm looking at it Rowan - It's been a very helpful exercise even though my original budget estimate was way off as it turns out....

mavvymoo

Wow We are all picking up some great bargains I know we are here not to buy clothes but how can we leave them behind I bet we are all so well dressed for very little money so that has got to be something I think.
The linen dress sounds lovely and the silk top and skirt.

I picked up a lovely Black dress for me today Pepperberry on the website now for £79 mine for £4.95 Looks lovely on and I will wear it a lot I hope.
A Grey thin cardy for me as well £3.50
Also a pair of shoes for £5 brand new Hotter to sell on.
It really does add up :eek: Now I am keeping count and thinking about it. So £13.45 to add
Mav x

kerri_gt

i have one bid on one of my fleabay items.

But must confess to a spontaneous buy of a sweatshirt for £24 in TopShop today. Whoops.

Azzzaa

Sold a jacket i got for 99p in the charity shop for £5 on a facebook site and have kept aside one or two items i bought for 99p for myself!! I'm a happy azza today!!

mavvymoo

Azzzaa wrote: »

Sold a jacket i got for 99p in the charity shop for £5 on a facebook site and have kept aside one or two items i bought for 99p for myself!! I'm a happy azza today!!

Well done nice easy profit for you Also pays for your items that you decided to keep with £s left over

Going to list a couple of bits today including the £6 dress and the £5 shoes so lets see how we go.
4 items with bids on The Bay at about £28 total so cant complain

Mav x

Rowan_moon

mavvymoo wrote: »

Well done nice easy profit for you Also pays for your items that you decided to keep with £s left over

Going to list a couple of bits today including the £6 dress and the £5 shoes so lets see how we go.
4 items with bids on The Bay at about £28 total so cant complain

Mav x

Well done Azzzaa :j and Mavvy :j

Much excitement here, the Ted Baker shirt I bought for £7 has 1 bid already for £14.99 and it has 9 days to go. Put a few other bits on Ebay last night, and want to buy a white summery handbag with the money I make.