Addict Right Here!

I am about to admit something (and very shamefully) I.am.a.clothes.addict. I can't help it. First of all I love to shop. Secondly I have always worked for my money to be able to spend. Thirdly we waited so long to have a child that I never had a problem spending all the extra money we had on me. I know very selfish.....

So that is why right here in front of everyone I am admitting that I hoard clothes. I'm afraid to miss out on a style and I am also afraid, are you ready?? To wear the same outfit twice. Gasp!! The horror.

So I have made my mind up that I need help. I spent Wednesday cleaning out my closet in the hope to have more room and so that I can fully grasp how awful it is getting. I am showing my disgrace off to everyone so that next time you see me you can shamefully tell me how awful I am to have all these clothes to be worn once (some not even that much) while there are people less fortunate. But, please be kind about it.

Are you ready to enter my closet???

This isn't even a very good picture for you to grasp how full and out of control it is. If you can imagine there are two racks top and bottom all the around this closet and I fully control 80% of it all. (I guess that is one thing I can be thankful for that Farmboy farms, he pulls his clothes out, sniffs them and puts them on to wear another day so he needs very minimal closet space) Do you see in the top corner all the shoe boxes? Yea, it's like that all the way around too and this is approximately just half the closet space. Just to put it in prospective, I have given many, many, tours of my home including my closet and people literally gasp when they walk into my closet by how big it is. Maybe that should be my fourth point. I have a big closet, therefore I must fill it.

Let the cleaning begin.

Summer clothes first, I had no mercy. No keeping clothes because ONE day I might fit into it better than today, no that style will look better on me tomorrow than today, No just keeping it because I like the shirt even though I have never worn it. ALL must go....

I had two containers full of just summer! Oh the madness....

But on the bright side, it should be a LONG time before I have to purchase hangers again. Look at me with my optimistic attitude.

Here is where the madness doesn't stop.

Who had TEN crinkle tank tops? TEN! What am I buying stock in crinkle tank tops?? 

and all those white tank tops?? Geez, just lock me up and throw away the key, I will live the rest of my life cuddling with my tank weeping softly.

Hello Fluff, Fluff?? Are you paying attention to me?? Or are are you asleep fearfully awaiting to be hit by a hanger or stray shirt.

Back to addictions, not only is it clothes, but also shoes. Oh My Word! How do I love thee shoes??
I love shoes with heels,
I love shoes with color,
I love shoes that are impractical (which most of mine are),
I love shoes that I have never worn but were too cute to pass up,
I love shoes that make me buy a outfit just to match those shoes,
I love shoes that make me taller,
I love shoes that make a statement,
I just love shoes, but sadly all these shoes bid goodbye to my closet.
Take them! I will not cry, I.will.not.cry

The final product. Sadly the box with the fall clothes that I got rid of are not pictured. It was a heavy box and as soon as I got it hoisted up, it went to the back of my vehicle to be taken to a consignment shop. The other two boxes full of summer will be taken in the spring and the box of shoes hopefully will find all the love and attention they deserve on the feet of someone else.

So what have I learned through this process??
1. I have learned that I buy a particular style of shirt in multiple colors.
2. I am a impulse shopper.
3. I buy the same exact outfit that is on mannequins because it is cute and it has to go together with those exact pants AND shoes.
4. GAP needs to get bigger mannequins
5. Velour makes me instantly break out into a choking sweat. Not that I have ever wore velour, but the thought does.
6. I really don't need 4 different shades of Khaki capris. Surely one color would be good enough
7. I can't hold onto something just because it has a sentimental value. i.e. a skirt I wore on our honeymoon and had a picture of Farmboy and I taken with me wearing it which is STILL one of my favorite pictures. OR the dress I wore to my college graduation. Both very happy memories but I don't need the clothes to remember them.
8. I can wear the same outfit twice. (I'm working on this one)

What I am working on....
1. I still have some shoes I still might not wear in the next year
2. which means I still have a insanely amount of shoes
3. and jeans
4. and white tank tops
5. Getting rid of enough clothes to allow Farmboy a shelf to store some of excess work clothes.

The first step any in addiction is admitting you have a problem right??