A few weeks ago i started a $50 a week clothing budget.
It was hard, so hard...I'm a self confessed shopaholic and i seriously love to shop, i strangely enough find it very therapeutic and relaxing.
So this new budget was a bit of a shock to the system.
Especially when the first week i started it i went to the Gold Coast for the weekend...not a smart move!
To be honest it ended in tears...stupid i know but at the time i was frustrated and i just needed a hit (of shopping that is).
But that's when the real soul searching started...why did i shop so much and why did i never seem to have enough or anything to wear? I loved shopping but i was never truly happy with what i had.
I talked to my partner Dave about this and the real reason started to surface. Ive always had what i consider great looking friends... truly beautiful girls around me who are all smaller than me with more perfect hair and the kind that guys are just drawn to.
Me on the other hand, Ive battled between a few sizes for much of my life since i was a teen and never really been happy no matter what size i was, my hair is a combination of frizzy and a lions mane and cant decide if it wants to be curly or not and well my love life...truly a sad tale until i met Dave.
So if i wasn't all these others things then what was i?
The stylish one.
The one with the amazing wardrobe and the one who was always on trend. This was who i had pigeon holed myself to be. So when all this was suddenly at risk through a significant budget cut...then who was i going to be?
A few weeks on though and i am starting to see the point to all this...the way i think about shopping is starting to change. I'm thinking about quality more, what will fit in with the rest of the wardrobe, things that are missing that might bring certain pieces i already have in my wardrobe together.
I'm starting to get it and as a result I'm shopping smarter and I'm starting to really love the things i buy and hopefully I'm still as stylish and on trend as ever!
xxx
