https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/shop-your-closet-week-5-begins Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Mon, 04 May 2026 23:14:43 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/shop-your-closet-week-5-begins/page/2#post-210023 Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:12:50 +0000 Laura 210023@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Theresa, this is exciting! Glad to have you on board. And Louise, sorry about the kitty expenses. But glad it will keep you with us. Ruchi, the stage you are in makes it really hard not to shop - the body changes and the psychological pick me up as well. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/shop-your-closet-week-5-begins/page/2#post-210020 Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:05:45 +0000 Louise 210020@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm definately having to stick to the SYC challenge Marley my cat needs a tooth out and a kitty teeth scale and polish and the bill could be around £250!!!!! so NO shopping for me for the next couple of months!!! x </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/shop-your-closet-week-5-begins/page/2#post-210008 Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:25:13 +0000 Theresa 210008@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Well girls, I'm very proud of you all still!!!</p> <p>Laura I think you are doing the right thing... but I'm a rule follower and very much a goody-two shoes so the creative options just didn't work for me! And I think anytime you start to waver you can go and look at the gorgeous bag and know that its all worth it!</p> <p>And despite thinking I was just going to be a side-line cheerer, I am going to actually join you girls for the month of September! (Well, Sept 2 onwards - I bought a scarf on Sep 1 before I decided!).</p> <p>This month I'm taking part in a 30 Day Live a Better Life challenge (you can read about it on my blog if you are interested), and one of my tasks for September is to cut down on my spending - so joining you girls was the perfect way to start!</p> <p>Also, seeing as the first ever Aussie YLF meet is happening in October in my states capital city, I'm more than happy to save as much shopping as possible for then!</p> <p>Hopefully I can do just one month! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/shop-your-closet-week-5-begins/page/2#post-209882 Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:56:37 +0000 Ruchi 209882@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Do what your heart says,Laura.<br /> Queenie,I like your thought about enjoying the things that we already have and replace things when needed.<br /> I am also hanging in there.As I am losing the baby weight,not many clothes actually fit me right.I have more clothes kept aside for alterarions than the ones in my wardrobe.I have a feeling that I might fall off the wagon anytime but lets' see how far I can go with this. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/shop-your-closet-week-5-begins/page/2#post-209140 Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:21:55 +0000 Laura 209140@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yes, absolutely! The first story won't appear until Oct 1, though. We'll be (weary) veterans of SYC by then. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/shop-your-closet-week-5-begins/page/2#post-209078 Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:20:38 +0000 Lynne 209078@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Laura, you have my complete and utter admiration! I'm glad you made a decision you feel happy with...</p> <p>I suspect this comes under the qualifier "you know your addicted to YLF when..." BUT I was driving home today wondering what you would decide AND it occured to me that giving you the bag before you paid was a gift....althought the bag itself isn't a gift...but offering you the use of it before you pay for it is. To me. FWIW :)</p> <p>Keep up the fab work, SYCers. </p> <p>Laura, will you post a link to your magazine article once it's published? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/shop-your-closet-week-5-begins/page/2#post-209072 Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:05:19 +0000 Queen Mum 209072@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>underwear is completely legal in my book. no vote necessary. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/shop-your-closet-week-5-begins/page/2#post-209067 Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:56:34 +0000 Laura 209067@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Khris, you are completely within bounds. Hope you post an outfit with your new tunic! I bought something yesterday and decided to just do it. I needed underwear and decided that there was no way I was explaining why and putting it up to a public vote. There are limits! So I certainly wouldn't feel bad about filling a hole in your wardrobe when you'd already announced that.</p> <p>I have decided against using the handbag until Jan. 1. Ultimately I would just feel guilty anyway and I had to agree with those who thought it was skirting the rules, although I appreciated the people who were trying to find a way for me to enjoy that handbag now </p> <p>Another insight gleaned: Last night, I was reading new fall catalogs. Usually I would mark pages with things I might want to purchase. (Since Aug. 1, I have generally just been throwing catalogs out without even glancing inside the cover). But I looked, and after a few longing pangs, I decided to see which looks from the catalogs I could recreate from my own closet and was surprised that I found quite a few. (So, so grateful I bought that cream KC tunic at NAS because it allows me to do a lot of new looks). I ripped those pages out and stacked them in my closet. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/shop-your-closet-week-5-begins/page/2#post-209049 Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:29:50 +0000 Queen Mum 209049@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Khris... I think you stated from the beginning that you had some holes to fill. No problem. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/shop-your-closet-week-5-begins/page/2#post-209045 Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:21:30 +0000 Sparky 209045@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Khris, it sounds to me like you are meeting your goals just fine! I'm happy to hear that you found a shirt that fills an important hole. I can't imagine any of the SYCers being mad at you!</p> <p>I am so impressed with all the vacationers. Isabel (MA), I am doubly impressed with holding out while cold! That is one way to bring me to my knees . . .</p> <p>Sandy, I'm watching SYC from the sidelines, but in your case I think you really should hold off using the bag till January. It will feel that much sweeter to use it then! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/shop-your-closet-week-5-begins/page/2#post-209035 Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:08:42 +0000 chewyspaghetti 209035@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>You all are going to hate me, but I bought a shirt yesterday. I am in desperate need of tops, and I said from the beginning that not shopping entirely until Jan was not my goal, just cutting back. I'm the red headed step child of the SYC group. I've actually had a hard time finding what I want/need and forcing myself to spend the money. This shirt is a denim tunic, and was a great deal, so I am happy. I also came home and got my packages from exchanging my pants/shoes. The jeans are great, but the oxfords go right back. I guess I will try another pair in exchange. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/shop-your-closet-week-5-begins/page/2#post-209028 Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:59:49 +0000 Lisa 209028@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I think that's awfully nice of Sandy to let you borrow the bag then pay after SYC is over. Maybe just keep it in the closet as your SYC reward to use after the challenge is over. I really find some of the insight SYC participants are learning interesting. I too am guilty of shopping as a hobby, shopping for items I lusted on others but don’t genuinely “need” and shopping to rebuild an image of myself that I just don’t like. My worst shopping moment comes about once a month when even chocolate is not enough to satisfy. Of course, bottoms shopping at that time is definitely off limits. Stay strong SYC-ers and keep passing along your wisdom. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/shop-your-closet-week-5-begins/page/2#post-208943 Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:56:05 +0000 Queen Mum 208943@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Borrowing = I have a party to go to and I go grab a necklace from a friends closet.</p> <p>At the risk of sounding like the SYC goody two shoes, I have to say that "borrowing" and paying for the bag later is just being a bit too creative with semantics. </p> <p>Reminds me of when we left our older 2 home alone for a week and specifically told them they couldn't have anyone over. Got home to find out that they had a friend spend the night.... when I asked DS16 if Joe had spent the night, he said "no".. when I later confronted him that he flat out lied to me, he said "I didn't lie, because we didn't sleep here... we went to hang out at Mike's house and didn't come back here till morning." </p> <p>Wow, you vacationers really did well. You are an example to the rest of us </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/shop-your-closet-week-5-begins/page/2#post-208918 Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:32:25 +0000 bj1111 208918@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>congrats, isabel! such strength in the face of adversity. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/shop-your-closet-week-5-begins/page/2#post-208916 Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:28:57 +0000 Laura 208916@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>You vacationers have my undying admiration! Way to hold strong in the face of moose t-shirts and mangled glasses! I have a personal rule never to buy artwork while on vacation (i.e. painted driftwood does NOT translate well in Chicago), so perhaps the same should go for jewelry and spawning double-entendre t-shirts.</p> <p>Hmmmm. The idea of borrowing ... that certainly IS genius, Joy ... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/shop-your-closet-week-5-begins/page/2#post-208841 Wed, 01 Sep 2010 03:29:09 +0000 Isabel 208841@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I am still in !! Though it was very hard because I was on vacation for almost 3 weeks and I had the jean short dilemma, then my only pair of board shorts no longer fit and we were going to do alot of water activities...but I held tight and wore ( ta-da ) my bathing suit !! Then my lens fell out of my eye glasses right before I left and I mangled my frames - but I still held on and a wonderful lady where we vacationed fixed them for me. It also turned out to be cold at night and I did not bring a polar fleece - so I wore practically everything I had..........not to mention all the tempting things that I saw WHILE on vacation. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/shop-your-closet-week-5-begins/page/2#post-208763 Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:35:04 +0000 Tanya 208763@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Laura, I think you are doing an amazing job! Having said that, I applaud the suggestion of borrowing the bag It can be borrowed till January, and then bought. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/shop-your-closet-week-5-begins/page/2#post-208759 Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:29:16 +0000 hanna 208759@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>okay, just HAD to check in -- y'all have some amazing willpower, and i don't think i'd have the ability to join you even if i tried :P.</p> <p>that said, laura -- joy's suggestion of "borrowing" is pretty much genius. DO ITTTT. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/shop-your-closet-week-5-begins/page/2#post-208745 Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:11:10 +0000 MNsara 208745@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Joy - you enabler (of a different sort ;-)! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/shop-your-closet-week-5-begins/page/2#post-208738 Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:00:53 +0000 morethanbeige 208738@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yes, yes, BORROW! Brilliant, Joy! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/shop-your-closet-week-5-begins/page/2#post-208704 Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:28:55 +0000 Anonymous 208704@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Another SYCer reporting in. First, Laura, about the beautiful bag from Sandy...in the beginning of this challenge, didn't you say that items could be borrowed from a friend's closet? Maybe you could "borrow" the bag from Sandy for awhile?<br /> Thank you for this challenge. I'm also finding I'm being discerning and not feeling deprived...yet. I survived the Alaskan cruise week without buying any of the much touted jewelry or a single tee from the trip. You've probably saved me from wearing a moose on my chest or some double entendres involving spawning.<br /> April's Talbot bags are a bigger temptation. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/shop-your-closet-week-5-begins#post-208686 Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:37:11 +0000 Laura 208686@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thank you everyone for the support and encouragement! Sometimes I think I must be nuts for trying to change so many habits at once, but then again, why not turn everything upside down? </p> <p>I did Day One on the Whole Foods Project and so far so good. My meals are recorded on my blog. Now if I can avoid the evening munchies ... cookies, kettle corn, yikes! ... the day will have gone well. I have no idea how many calories I ate but I feel I did okay! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/shop-your-closet-week-5-begins#post-208447 Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:32:34 +0000 morethanbeige 208447@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Laura, I enjoy so much reading your blog. Love the interest you are taking in eating better. I am always trying to find ways to incorporate more fresh veges and fruits into my diet. It seems like I feel better! I am going to the grocery store today looking for similar healthy options. Thanks. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/shop-your-closet-week-5-begins#post-208236 Tue, 31 Aug 2010 02:11:46 +0000 Kristen 208236@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Jean, thank you so much for the tip about Mark Bittman! I love his cookbooks, and I am fascinated to hear about this one. Already on my Amazon, right along with Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable Mineral, and a new dance game for my Wii. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/shop-your-closet-week-5-begins#post-208201 Tue, 31 Aug 2010 01:29:08 +0000 judy 208201@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Laura, I found out about that company on someone else's blog! I think it was Jenny Gordy's Wikstenmade. <a href="http://wikstenmade.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">http://wikstenmade.blogspot.com/</a> </p> <p>Here's a video of Mark Bittman <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXfarIbdaVA" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXfarIbdaVA</a><br /> Love his simple straighforward approach to food. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/shop-your-closet-week-5-begins#post-208156 Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:29:17 +0000 greenglove 208156@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Laura, you are a great inspiration. I am learning from you. I am not in on the challenge but reading about what you are doing is helping me become way more discerning. Love the idea of no packaged food. Have you read the book "Food Matters" by Mark Bittman?<br /> Great and informative book about food and impact on the environment and everything else. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/shop-your-closet-week-5-begins#post-208146 Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:18:30 +0000 Angie 208146@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>This thread is still young......it's not over till it's over, Laura :0) </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/shop-your-closet-week-5-begins#post-208143 Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:15:16 +0000 taylor 208143@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Laura!!! that bag is too FAB to not be in your closet! I am with Angie and the others...life is short and you have been a rock AND Sandy is so generous to postpone any payment...ENJOY!!! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/shop-your-closet-week-5-begins#post-208137 Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:08:37 +0000 Laura 208137@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Judy, how did you find out about that handbag company? The leather is so rich looking, with so much nuance. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/shop-your-closet-week-5-begins#post-208136 Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:07:50 +0000 Laura 208136@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>No, not at all, Dawn! Buy the pants. My goodness, you have to be properly dressed for work!</p> <p>Sorry about the bookmarked dresses. I feel your pain! </p>