https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-am-shopped-out Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:16:07 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-am-shopped-out/page/2#post-701548 Fri, 24 Aug 2012 00:15:45 +0000 JR 701548@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh I so hear you. I did indulge in a little "retail therapy" the other day, but I can at least say that everything I bought was on my wish list and had a purpose. Now my wish list is very short and my reward drawer is well-stocked, so I envision doing very little shopping in the near future. Whew!</p> <p>But if the last leg of my weight loss goes as planned, it will be only a temporary reprieve. Hopefully by then, I'll have my game all figured out, so I will purchase very wisely. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-am-shopped-out/page/2#post-698985 Mon, 20 Aug 2012 23:25:01 +0000 goldenpig 698985@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Mary, I am so with you. I could have written a very similar post and almost did, but then I didn't because I didn't want to say I'm sick of shopping and then post another K/R and get called out on it, LOL. I don't want to promise SYC but I'm at the point that I'm mentally exhausted and nauseated at the thought any more cycles of shopping/K/R/returning (shopping bulimia is spot on LOL!). If I weren't gaining weight I wouldn't have to worry about having to potentially get new clothes and just enjoy my closet, but I may need to keep shopping a little to keep up with body changes. I think I'm going to have to learn to make do with much less though, because I'm tired of the hunt! I'm shopped out too so I hear you sister!</p> <p>I know that of anyone MaryK, you can do the 12x12--you seem to have a bottomless closet and are a genius at creative remixing. I've been following your WIW's ever since i joined and it still seems like you're posting new stuff each time. You have an amazing closet and sense of style and I think you'd be fine even on a strict SYC! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-am-shopped-out/page/2#post-698619 Mon, 20 Aug 2012 17:57:21 +0000 Ornella 698619@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Wow, this will be one great challenge. I am sure you'll realize you have better wardrobe than you ever thought. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-am-shopped-out#post-698585 Mon, 20 Aug 2012 17:08:31 +0000 MsMary 698585@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Heh! "Shopping bulimia!"</p> <p>Very apt! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-am-shopped-out#post-698262 Mon, 20 Aug 2012 04:37:42 +0000 catgirl 698262@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I've been feeling a bit exhausted myself, and I totally understand. I feel my closet is far from done, but I need a little breather from the shopping bulimia. Glad to have some company. You have SUCH a fab and enviable closet! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-am-shopped-out#post-698019 Mon, 20 Aug 2012 00:07:36 +0000 Vix 698019@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Hi Mary --</p> <p>You have so many wonderful items (including the most amazing consignment finds) that I hope you enjoy the process of figuring out different or favorite combinations.</p> <p>The downside of adding new things into the mix is definitely less time to wear (not-so-) old items that were chosen because they made you smile/look great -- it'll be fun to hear your insights! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-am-shopped-out#post-697511 Sun, 19 Aug 2012 06:54:17 +0000 Scarlet 697511@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>That all makes so much sense, and you of anyone have the closet to allow you to do the 12 items thing. Honestly I am astounded by the breadth of your wardrobe and how you are constantly able to come up with new combinations, to which a miss picky-pants like me actually uses the word "perfect" to describe. Maybe I haven't always used that exact word, but the message was basically the same. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-am-shopped-out#post-697490 Sun, 19 Aug 2012 05:12:13 +0000 MsMary 697490@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Wow! I'm surprised and touched by all the insight and support here! Glad to see I'm not alone!</p> <p>Nicole, your slow clap cracks me up!</p> <p>Now that I've actually written it all down and gotten such a heartening response, it really does feel like the right thing to do! It's kind of a relief, actually! Stay tuned! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-am-shopped-out#post-697479 Sun, 19 Aug 2012 04:05:28 +0000 tarzy 697479@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I look forward to seeing the creative combinations you'll be making when you rediscover treasures hidden in the back of the closet! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-am-shopped-out#post-697465 Sun, 19 Aug 2012 03:31:40 +0000 christieanne 697465@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>It is so eye opening when I see something online or in a store that I crave then I remember to shop my closet and find something similar that is just as good. It seems that you do have a lot of great pieces and lots of colors and patterns which will keep the SYB far from boring.<br /> I love Angie's rule #2 and can't wait to see where this journey leads you. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-am-shopped-out#post-697428 Sun, 19 Aug 2012 02:30:04 +0000 sarah 697428@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>You GO, girl!!!!!!!!!! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-am-shopped-out#post-697375 Sun, 19 Aug 2012 01:29:45 +0000 Suz 697375@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ooh!!! when I grow up I want to BE you! I'm still not ready to stop shopping; I still don't feel I have completely narrowed down my style, let alone built a cohesive and workable wardrobe. I'm much closer, but still not there. </p> <p>But I'm so proud of you for your realization, and will be cheering you on from the sidelines and hoping to see many of your wonderful items combined in new ways. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-am-shopped-out#post-697371 Sun, 19 Aug 2012 01:23:48 +0000 nicoleb 697371@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>*starts a slow clap for MaryK* :D</p> <p>Can i say i've always been a little in awe of how frequently you post your WIW's and they are all so varied?! I'd say you have a beautiful closet(s?) full of wonderful things and congrats to you for recognizing this. </p> <p>Good luck! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-am-shopped-out#post-697351 Sun, 19 Aug 2012 00:59:01 +0000 KathyL 697351@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm about 1 year behind you in my style journey post weight loss but I also feel shopped out already. I've bought more this past year than the previous 6 combined if you don't count maternity clothes. My wardrobe is nowhere near as fab as yours but I think I'm in a good place to sit back from the buying frenzy and see what I really need. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-am-shopped-out#post-697307 Sat, 18 Aug 2012 23:47:32 +0000 Transcona Shannon 697307@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Well I for one say CONGRATULATIONS MaryK! I think this is HUGE milestone and one I'm hoping to reach one day. You have a beautifully curated closet full of items that make you happy and sure are pretty for the rest of us to look at. Pretty much everything in your wardrobe (that I can recall) works well together and I'm sure there are no end to different combinations.</p> <p>Sit back, relax, have fun! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-am-shopped-out#post-697306 Sat, 18 Aug 2012 23:47:21 +0000 Gabi 697306@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>i love the idea of 12 items in a year. i might do that some day </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-am-shopped-out#post-697299 Sat, 18 Aug 2012 23:40:22 +0000 Jonesy 697299@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I see what you are saying, MaryK! You do indeed have an incredible, cohesive, modern wardrobe, so I can see why you would want to tamp down the spending for a bit and just enjoy what you have.</p> <p>I too am moving more into quality/unique pieces mode, vs. novelty all the time (which equals quantity for me). </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-am-shopped-out#post-697273 Sat, 18 Aug 2012 22:56:19 +0000 Anonymous 697273@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Well you have a fantastic wardrobe and I can't wait to see what fantastic pieces you find in there to wear that I haven't even seen yet. Your plan for next year sounds like a good one as well. It would be fun to collect some higher-end pieces. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-am-shopped-out#post-697263 Sat, 18 Aug 2012 22:40:21 +0000 Kate 697263@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I too am shopped out, and look forward to mixing and wearing my clothes, as opposed to shopping for more of them. I've gotten way more pleasure recently from returning items than I did from buying them in the first place. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-am-shopped-out#post-697253 Sat, 18 Aug 2012 22:20:34 +0000 Janet 697253@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Once again, I'm finding myself nodding along with a lot of Gaylene's post. I'm a bit shopped out, too, Mary. I have a few birthday-month discount coupons from various stores, and I'm not terribly compelled to shop lately. </p> <p>One exception: I *did* stop in one boutique the other night since its right next door to where I was grabbing some dinner, and I eyed a few pieces, especially a black tuxedo jacket with leather lapels, but in the end I picked up a metallic envelope clutch, which is something I'd actually had on a wish list for months, and it was a good bargain besides. Everything I looked and and thought, "That's cute," the thought immediately followed, "But I don't need that." </p> <p>I'm going to allow myself a little suitcase space and budget for an item or two in Reykjavik next month (what a fab city for unique fashion!), but otherwise, I'm done for a little while. I have summer clothes I haven't even worn this season, and I am looking forward to wearing my fall and NAS items, so I am definitely in WEAR THE HECK OUT OF MY FAB CLOTHES mode! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-am-shopped-out#post-697243 Sat, 18 Aug 2012 21:52:15 +0000 Gaylene 697243@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm in much the same position as you are, MaryK. Overhauling a wardrobe after losing weight is fun, but I found it was too easy to go overboard when almost everything I tried on fit and looked good. Finally shopping was enjoyable instead of frustrating. But my credit cards took a beating and too many things were ending up unworn in my closet. And, to be honest, some of the items, once I took a look at them at home, just didn't fit my lifestyle or my wardrobe goals.</p> <p>I've really tried to be selective these past months. Oddly, instead of feeling deprived, not jumping on every bandwagon or being lured in by every marketing pitch has made me more aware of my own style goals. I'm much happier with having one pair of well-made shoes than half a dozen pairs of cheap ones. That same principle goes for my clothes-- one great shirt, to me, is better than two or three so-so ones.</p> <p>It's not easy exercising restraint when you are surrounded with messages to try this and buy that, but, like choosing to eat right, it feels like a much healthier way to live.</p> <p>ETA: That's why I'm CHOOSING to sit out the boyfriend jean trend. I like the idea of a slouchy pant, but the (to my eye) overly casual vibe of the boyfriend just makes me feel sloppy. I'm looking for something more along the line of Angie's Theory pants. That will be MY interpretation of the slouchy look. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-am-shopped-out#post-697191 Sat, 18 Aug 2012 20:48:33 +0000 jenanded 697191@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Here is support for you MaryK! You were one of my first respondents when I joined YLF so I have watched your outfitting with AWE and appreciation. I agree though you totally needed to reclaim the new self but this now has been fulfilled ---- So now the hunt for the perfect piece to match in so its just a refined game now! I made a determined effort to do the pieces 'right' coming into this new season and inadvertently re-discovered a local designer, have splurged crazily on maybe half a dozen pieces... I have not been able to get them off my back, I am getting compliments left right and centre, and I feel SATISFIED with my wardrobe right now. So somehow feeling that all the pieces go together and work for you means that the standard for anything else coming in needs to be high as well! Hope you get to that nirvana as well! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-am-shopped-out#post-697155 Sat, 18 Aug 2012 20:03:34 +0000 jayne 697155@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh good for you! I didn't realize you were still buying as we see so little WIB from you, but we do see all these lovely pieces! also didn't realize that you started this 2 years ago. I also lost weight about then but didn't find YLF til this year and repeated the same mistakes as I have all my life. I really hope I can be where you are this time next year, or does it take say two runs through each season to feel you have a good basis to work from for replacement and piff upates, but not major buying? 12x12 sounds intimidating. I feel I would fail. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-am-shopped-out#post-697150 Sat, 18 Aug 2012 19:59:14 +0000 CocoLion 697150@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I hear you! And have been thinking seriously, for the first time, of doing some sort of SYC. Maybe we can support each other!</p> <p>For next year, I don't think 12 items is realistic for me. But maybe 24 or 36. I think 3 items a month is still less than what I've been averaging for the past 12 months.</p> <p>I totally agree that buying fewer items of higher quality is an engaging concept. If I limited the number of things I purchase I think this would start to happen. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-am-shopped-out#post-697147 Sat, 18 Aug 2012 19:56:16 +0000 Angie 697147@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>A great realization, Mary :)</p> <p>WEAR THE HECK OUT OF YOUR CLOTHES. YLF's second official rule. </p> <p>Shopping your budget is a superb idea. Be very mindful about what you add to your closet. Think about *the piece* and how it works as an item, an item that is part of an outfit, and an outfit that is a component of a capsule. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-am-shopped-out#post-697145 Sat, 18 Aug 2012 19:49:25 +0000 Firecracker (Sharan) 697145@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>This is great food for thought, MaryK. I appreciate your sharing it. Your experience resonates with me, as I've spent the last few years renewing a wardrobe to meet my new lifestyle after leaving full-time work behind and moving to a new climate. I've felt that recognition of having a complete wardrobe yet realizing that each season I'll have the urge to buy fun new things. The one-item-a-month concept is intriguing! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-am-shopped-out#post-697141 Sat, 18 Aug 2012 19:46:12 +0000 MsMary 697141@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks, Zap! At least it will be when my BF jeans arrive early next week... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-am-shopped-out#post-697139 Sat, 18 Aug 2012 19:44:57 +0000 Anonymous 697139@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Honestly Mary, me too. Where I am right now, is on shopping for specific items rather that just buying on impulse because something is nice. It's just too chaotic.</p> <p>Plus, seriously Mary, to me what you own is as close to closet Nirvana you can get. You don't need a thing! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-am-shopped-out#post-697137 Sat, 18 Aug 2012 19:40:49 +0000 Mo 697137@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Looking forward to all the thoughtful purchase plans getting set for the end of this year and next! I am looking at a maintainable plan for the forseeable future myself. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-am-shopped-out#post-697134 Sat, 18 Aug 2012 19:39:11 +0000 Anonymous 697134@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I completely relate to this post, MaryK. My clothes-buying appetite is feeling really sated. I'd like to get a new pair of dressy shoes, but otherwise I'm in good shape for the rest of the year. </p>