The Great American Apparel Diet
no buying for one year

Marcie

Marcie James is a 43 year old mother of two (9 and 7) living in Perth Western Australia in a house with only one toilet. She has what can be loosely described as a career in Training and Development and is an unpublished and completely unknown author and script writer. Marcie stumbled on The Great American Apparel Diet site while trying to Google her own blog NoclothesNoshoes or NCNS as she affectionately calls it. (She didn’t find it). She was, however, so pleased to find another site dedicated to the cause and full of other like minded folk taking on the challenge. Why is Marcie denying herself the pleasure of buying new clothes and shoes? Well, basically, she has too much stuff. Her wardrobe is full of clothes that she never wears and yet she keeps adding to it. If Marcie can prove to herself that she can get by with what she has for 1 year, including existing underwear (yikes!) then not only will it do her own soul the world of good, it will demonstrate to her children that you can get by with the things (i.e. toys) you already have and new things are left for special occasions like birthdays. Perhaps she’ll be a tad more selective when her self-imposed shopping ban is lifted in January 2011. Or, sick of her self-righteous martyrdom, she might just go completely mad with the credit card.