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I just did  I need to simplify and become more modest. I had too much clothes that was imodest and I don't wear and I was not getting rid of either till now. I feel so good I always kept telling myself 'well when I loose all the baby weight they wont be so tight and it will fit modestly' ya right  .
I needed to keep a few things that were essential, but everything else went out and will be donated. It feels so good to purge.
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12stars wrote:
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Doesn't it?
Good for you!  Curious to know how much you have left and how that's working for you (I guess you won't know for awhile!) - I'm always wondering how little we can get away with.
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I just packed up 3 bags of clothes for Goodwill. It feels *so* great to simplify my closet! Now on to my daughter's closet. Let's just say her shopaholic grandmother and I do *not* have the same taste in girl's clothing  LOL!
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You know I never really wore it and it was just there bothering me.
I used to work in a salon and had to be trendy, the bosses would get on you if you didn't. They said we had to look the part. I did but wasn't too flashy either. No more, I want to be low key and dress my age 31. I just want to focus on my dh and kids, this what I feel the Holy Spirit prompting me to do. I am slowly weaning myself of myself if that makes sense. Although I only have a few things left I am ok with it.
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amyable wrote:
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Oh, me too! I really would like to have so few clothes (while I was pregnant, I needed plus size maternity clothes - which were SO hard to find. I think I had a total of five outfits that fit me. My closet space was empty, and it was SO simple to choose, there just wasn't that many choices. And, secretly, I loved it!
Now I am back to having a full closet, and so does everyone else, and I am ALWAYS behind on laundry. In fact, I am not sure what "caught up on the laundry" even looks like, as even if I do it all, a few hours later I will need to do more, because they all insist on continuing to wear clothes
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It does feel good to purge stuff, accept for the baby clothes because that time is probably over.  I know I have said that recently; it is just so hard for me to cope with. I have all of my baby stuff ready for Goodwill (and have for a month) but I don't have the heart to take it. DH will have to do it.
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LLMom wrote:
| It does feel good to purge stuff, accept for the baby clothes because that time is probably over. I know I have said that recently; it is just so hard for me to cope with. I have all of my baby stuff ready for Goodwill (and have for a month) but I don't have the heart to take it. DH will have to do it. |
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Yes, that is not a fun feeling.
As we packed and moved to NV, I got rid of all our baby stuff...except, I kept our small, wooden little crib, and our good stroller. I just couldn't get rid of them. I tried. But I got a lump in my throat and my chest all tightened every time I tried to.
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I did this recently too! I finally looked at all of the clothes that were packed into my closet and said, "Even if I ever get down to this itty bitty size again, would I seriously want to wear a shirt that says, "I'm a Rock Star" in silvery rhinestone things." Uh...I can say a definite, "NO!" on that one.
The rest of my late teen, early twenty wardrobe got the same "No!" and I am left with very little. But it's all I wore anyway.
It feels good.
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I have very few clothes. Three skirts, 8 tops, two pairs of pjs, 4 pairs of underwear for the lower half, two underwear for the upper half, some socks. A couple of cardies for the winter (basically I wear the same clothes year round, adding a cardigan in the winter, and getting a little hot in the summer and taking a couple of tops that are warmer out of the rotation. It's very simple. Actually, I could have less, but the children are very "grabby" and I have to change tops daily as they get dirty from the children.
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LucyP wrote:
| I have very few clothes. Three skirts, 8 tops, two pairs of pjs, 4 pairs of underwear for the lower half, two underwear for the upper half, some socks. A couple of cardies for the winter (basically I wear the same clothes year round, adding a cardigan in the winter, and getting a little hot in the summer and taking a couple of tops that are warmer out of the rotation. It's very simple. Actually, I could have less, but the children are very "grabby" and I have to change tops daily as they get dirty from the children. |
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Wow! I am in awe.
But really - only 4 for "lower half" underwear? Seriously? I can go through 4 during one day of my monthly cycle, when it is bad (like the first two days of it.)
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I have a lot of solid color tops--a few pull overs, but mostly buttondowns. I do have a lot of skirts. Given the work I do outside (a big garden, LOTS of chickens and ducks and geese, the dog, and five dc)..plus skirts/dresses to wear to Mass, I need LOTS of skirts and tops...I probably need to weed thru a bit (I did get rid of ALOT before we moved...). But I have gotten rid of alot of shoes.
But I have pretty much got what I need. Which is good.
I do need to go buy some more underwear, though. Walmart, next time I have some free spending money...
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Laura, I don't menstruate, so that's not an issue for me. If it was 4 pairs wouldn't do, I suppose. I just didn't have the money to buy more than 4 pairs of good ones, and didn't want to go the route of cheap ones that fall apart and fall down again! So 4 sloggis works for me :o)
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Okay! I'm goin' in! I have a huge clothes closet I've been battling for years and I am at the point where I am so SICK of THINGS. They suck way too much time out of me, so. I've been purging toys, now for the clothes!
Thanks for the motivation!
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LOL--Laura, I wondered that same thing myself! Esp those initial post-partum cycles...UGH!
But that makes sense, Lucy, if you don't sometimes need waaaay more than 4, to only have that many.
I am in the midst of trying (and at least somewhat succeeding) to lose weight, and hope to be back in the smaller (nicer) undies I have from just after I had Sophie. I couldn't bear to get rid of them--still in good shape, and too nice to just throw out...but I need to lose some of this mass I've accumulated since I had her and the boys...
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I'm with you there!! I need seven for the bottom, and 3 for the top!
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