2024 Fashion On The Ration Challenge

Baileys_Babe

If you finish off the gloves @Cherryfudge then you will be ahead for Christmas this year 😉

alicef

Thank you @flamingo747 ; @Laura_Elsewhere & @Cherryfudge for the explanation, (as I slide out my extensive fabric stash from under the stairs).

pixtotts

I have 2 more outs on Vinted so I am finally ahead on my items out! 

6/66 coupons spent - 7/66 items out. 


I've been thinking practically about what I need this year, clothes wise I don't think I need anything. I have too many hence the selling things along with rationing. 

I bought fabric to make a dress last year so I do want to do that! And we inherited quite the fabric stash from the lady up the road so I would like to have a sort through that see what is useable what we like, and get some things made from that too. I'm not going to coupon those unless I have to buy any additional things to make it happen. 

So in terms of actual coupon speding - I would like some new boots, and I am going to need some slip on pump shoes of some sort, I say some sort I always buy the same ones! So I will need more of those, but I'm going to try and hold out for them to go on my birthday list! Maybe another pair of leggings with pockets too, I'm self employed artist so I live in leggings so the pockets are so useful the number of times I've tried to put my phone in the waist band and had to try and get it back out of the leg >.<
And I do need to buy a top to go with some sequin trousers my mum has got me for next Christmas. 

Beyond that I honestly don't need anything. So that is my dream goal at the moment only those items... Hopefully... x

Laura_Elsewhere

I love the way many of us are personalising the challenge this year- all kinds of things- some are counting coupons even on charity-shop purchases, some are trying to make 66 coupons' worth of clothing as well as limiting the buying of new, some are keeping a tally of items they are jettisoning to clear up space... such a range of ways, alongside the good ol' basic *Buy less than 66 coupons' worth of new clothes and footwear" challenge! 

boultdj

I need to finish my 2 WIP's, then I can start on OH's sock's again, I think he eats them the way 1 keeps going missing.

Gem-gem

@pixtotts, if you have clothes that you don't sell then at John Lewi$ if you take is five wearable items they give you £5 off your home / clothes purchase. The clothes are then given to The Salvation Army. So a win, win situation if you got lots to get rid of. 

No more new spends since the weekend. 

Nothing crocheted. 

Liverpool_Anne

I have a cloth bag in my wardrobe full of odd socks that I just throw any odd socks in and check every 6 months or so and I can usually get about 10 pairs or more from. I have no idea how or what happens to the socks that go missing for a while, I think I have borrowers who use them for a while then return them when they want a change

Elisheba

Liverpool_Anne said:

I have a cloth bag in my wardrobe full of odd socks that I just throw any odd socks in and check every 6 months or so and I can usually get about 10 pairs or more from. I have no idea how or what happens to the socks that go missing for a while, I think I have borrowers who use them for a while then return them when they want a change

I have one of those as well, @Liverpool_Anne.  I live on my own, and some of the socks never appear again - I often wonder what on earth can have happened to them!

Laura_Elsewhere

The advantage of knitting my own socks- I never lose any!
(And this is the one really neat and tidy area of the flat! ankle-socks along the bottom section, knicks and handmade camisoles and half-camis above, longer socks and boot-socks to the side )

maryb

I treated myself to a pair of M&S Heatgen tights yesterday.  Cosy!  How many coupons for that ?- they aren't the ordinary tights that we get a special allowance for but on the other hand they are probably no or not much  more heavy on materials than a  pair of ordinary opaque tights