Day one for me, although I’d coincidentally started down this path on my own this month. Bouts of back-to-school shopping with the kids, my eye casting across floors of all-new (but nothing new) apparel, all weirdly dominated by purple, had left me agitated and depressed (but still hungry). I had to buy something for myself. The burgundy shawl-scarf-y thing that I picked to dress up my outfit for an upcoming wedding was unsatisfying, and probably wrong. It still sits on my dresser with its tags on, mocking me. I’m waiting to see if I return it, or if this new diet makes me appreciate it as the last NEW thing that I’ll get this year.
I’m worried how I’ll satisfy my constant urge to improve myself. Clothes were a big part of that. I’ll get busy finding other goals and activities. First one will be to clean up my closet. Get the stuff out of purgatory piles (not dirty enough to justify dry-cleaning expense, too rumply to attract my eye when I reach for clothes). This will require ironing. I’m not sure my kids have ever seen me iron anything but a tablecloth.
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My kids wouldn’t know an iron if it scorched them in the face!
My kids saw an cartoon ironing board fall out of a classically comedic over-stuffed closet and thought it was a surf board. My mother who irons jeans and sheets, was completely stunned!
If you return the scarf-y thing and exchange it for something else, is that cheating?
You are not really buying something new….hummmphhhhh…..