underdress: anthro; dress, thrifted; shoes, thrifted; necklace: handmade from an old grinding wheel
i've been slowly accumulating and sorting through a mental "twenty pieces pros and cons" list. i'll try to remember most of them for you right now.
pros:
*simplifying is always good and freeing.
*i don't want to own more stuff than i really need.
*don't need to spend so much time and energy on shopping & dressing.
*living with only 20ish pieces and no shopping will force me to begin using my creativity elsewhere - more art & stuff, instead of on my wardrobe... sort of. at the same time, i might have to get REALLY creative towards the second half of the year ;)
cons:
*not sure this is where God has my heart right now as the past couple of years have been about FREEDOM and REST. taking away the rules that have so long burdened my soul. learning what i want. *i just really enjoy thrifting, and blogging about it - putting together new color and texture combinations in ways no one has ever done exactly like that... living with just 20 pieces would be simpler, but less prone to bright colors and fun, unexpected combinations that might happen with more of a selection and the opportunity to snatch up beauty out and about...
*i would probably have to quit this blog, at least in the way it's formatted right now, and i really enjoy it!
*what if i lose a bunch of weight in 2012 (highly unlikely ;)? or get pregnant (slightly more likely ;)?? i'll have no 20 pieces clothing that fit by the end of the year!
*i ruin clothes way too fast to buy expensive, well-made pieces that would "last" a year. never mind the cheaper pieces (ross buys ;) that just fall apart on their own, i am constantly tearing, staining, bleaching, shrinking... case in point, this is probably the last time you'll see these shoes. i spilled bleach water on half of one of them (hard to see in these shots... actually hard to see in real life, but noticeable enough that i probably should quit wearing them) when i was cleaning house. and this dress, i had no idea had a huge stain in the middle of it till halfway through the day... and all those chocolate soymilk stains you see down the front, jason had to tell me about when he got home. they had been there a good 5 hours by that point. and that's my point. i am constantly spilling or getting spilled on, falling, getting tugged on by my boy, running into things... as i have committed to live with 20 pieces these 20 days, it has made me more aware of getting possible stains out quickly (usually i just throw them in the laundry basket, and hope it comes out a week later). since most of my clothes have been like $5-10 finds, it's not that big of a deal. but once i start buying these "well-made" pieces, that are like $50 for a shirt or something, it's a much bigger thing to ruin them. i start to say stupid stuff like, "i will never wash this, so i don't have to worry about shrinking it". but inevitably by the end of the day, it will need to be washed because of my life with a todder and my own accident-prone clumsiness :) and about one fourth of my pieces need some sort of sewing repair currently. unfortunately, my sewing machine is missing a piece (and is buried under mounds of chaos - i need to get this "simplifying" thing going in other areas of life...) so i haven't been able to do it. normally, these items of clothing would go in "the sewing pile", to be seen again in 6-12 months when i uncover my sewing table and find a free hour to work on it. but when it's a fourth of my wardrobe, it becomes a little more urgent (this is actually starting to sound more like a "PRO" at this point. i guess even if i ultimately decide not to join the project, i will have learned some things along the way ;)
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