I just found this program through a story that ran in the New York Times-- which I think goes well with this program. . I actually started my own “diet” in May (didn’t realize there was a program). I had set out to do 6 months with no new clothes, beauty products, accessories for both me and my 2 year old daughter, but I fell off the wagon after a month when I was on vacation in Hawaii and discovered my bikini top was useless for surfing. I need a support group and glad to have found one now! Why does the diet makes me feel liberated? I realize how much more is less. A few perfect pieces is Nirvana. An over-stuffed closet is soul-crushing. My husband has had the right balance since I’ve known him: A uniform of black pants and shirts for work, and a uniform of jeans and t-shirts for play: he expresses himself creatively with hats, belts and sunglasses, but rarely adds anything to his basics. I have always been secretly jealous, but couldn’t put my finger on how to do it myself until I learn about the 6 items for a month plan. I realize more and more, that the more clothes I buy, the harder it is to value what I already have, and the more I want to buy to find something even better, and then what I already have starts looking pretty worthless or I can’t even see it in my closet..let’s end this vicious cycle !
Hello all, we are starting a “theme of the week” posting contest. Every week I will post a theme of the week, this week it is Denim. Every week we will put out a theme and all of you bloggers can blog on that topic. Then we all vote on the most thought provoking, silly, scary or outrageous post. The person who wins gets a piece of apparel. 
Anne Hurley, Seattle, WA, has been chasing fashion, high and low, since graduating from Catholic high school, after 12 years of uniforms. A longtime journalist (The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly, The Seattle Times), she adapted her fashion sense to whatever city her gypsy roots touched down in. In New York, more black (and real winter coats!); in L.A., minis, form-fitting leather vests, ever-blonder hair and a few unfortunate run-ins with self-tanner. Now, at 54, she’s ready to scale back. “I love shopping, and re-creating myself through my appearance,” she says, “but I finally realized I have enough raw material in my closets to reinvent till the next millennium.” Her last apparel purchase, in August: a gorgeous pinky-gray vintage tweed princess-line coat from an estate sale, $2 wadded in a box. “After a visit to the dry cleaners, it’s a show-stopper; a guy in Starbucks told me I looked like Lauren Bacall.” With that, she’s armed for a year of belt-tightening.
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