One of my friends recently challenged herself to 28 days without repeating an outfit. Her goal was to clean out her 3 closets. While I applaud her and want to be like her, I'm just not sure I have that much desire to. Yes I'd like to simplify my wardrobe (though it's pretty small compared to others I've seen), I'd like to lessen my possessions, unclutter, declutter, downsize - call it what you will. The big question is what's stopping me?
Today I saw a news report about someone who didn't buy anything new for an entire year (with the exception of toiletries and medicines). An ENTIRE YEAR? that's just plum crazy! I guess I could probably do that for 6 months, but 12? I'm not so sure.
I get the premise - to challenge yourself outside of your comfort box.
American's are the Queens & Kings of over consumption...I get it! But I love my Ugg boots that keep my toes toasty in the winter and my Dooney & Bourke handbags that last for years (literally I've had one for 7-8 years now and it still looks great)! Maybe the lesson here is to have a few quality items or a lot of poor quality items - they last longer and in the long run end up costing less because you are able to use them for a longer period of time.
Do I need to challenge myself to something? If that's what I'm going to do then I want to make it something positive like.....how about when someone asks me "how are you today" I'll answer "I can't complain".....to remind myself that things could ALWAYS be worse and really what do I have to complain about?
But that seems rather lame compared to "28 days of no repeating outfits" or not buying anything new for a year. I'm still stuck on how that works.
What do you think? Challenge or not?
