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Do you ever get on a kick?

Aziraphale

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I'm on a kick right now. I do this all the time with clothes. All I want to wear is tight jeans, short boots, and then either a tee shirt + blazer, or else a button-front shirt + sweater/sweater vest. I seem to need a collar these days! And I can't seem to motivate myself to wear anything else -- haven't worn a skirt in a month, for example. I love how a pencil skirt looks, but I'm just not reaching for them.

Maybe it's the cold.

I do this with other things, too -- I'll eat the same thing for lunch every day for a week, or play music by the same artist, or read every book by the same author. Is it just me, or does everyone do this?

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Jjsloane

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I do this. Some of us call it a formula If you like it, it works no need to worry. You have options, you just CHOOSE not to use them at this time.

Anonymous

I do this, too ... and not just with clothing. I overdose on certain foods, authors, tv shows, music, etc. It's as though I know no moderation!!

Thistle

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I am with Anne! Authors especially. And then I wonder why I burn out on them . . .

Anonymous

Yes, I do get on modes just like that. I have been eating the same salad for lunch for a couple days.

Anonymous

Yes!! I'll have my fill of something and then ... I don't care a hoot about it anymore until I cycle around back to it after several months.

MsMary

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All the time, and not just with clothes. I call them "jags," like a toddler will go on a "food jag" and eat only one thing for weeks on end.

Right now Mr. K and I are totally on a chili-flavored-ramen-noodles jag, after having them served to us in Business Class on Asiana Airways. It makes us feel like we're still on vacation!

vipbrj

Member

Someone needs to break me of my "Long, loose top + skinny pants + tall wedge heel boots" kick. I need an intervention!

catgirl

Veteran

Yes - my kick is skinnies, oversized sweaters and boots. But that makes sense in my climate... I can't even think of the last time I willingly wore a skirt. I am craving some trouser jeans, but that's not practical in winter here, sadly.

rae

(website)

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Yes! I love me a good outfit formula. Really simplifies life sometimes!

rachylou

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Definitely. So far I'm resisting going back to H&M and buying another t-shirt dress. I got this one in burgundy and I am loving it to death.

On the food front: mushrooms and onion dip.

Also, I'm working my way up for another round of silly self-help/inspirational/motivational audio. This time I'm thinking Vedic astrology. I just love hearing chipper voices. Sometimes HSN or QVC will do, if they do makeup. Hehe.

lyn*

(website)

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I am on a dot kick right now - and I'm soooo pumped there are SO MANY TYPES OF POLKADOTS!

Suz

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Yup. I do it, too. Sometimes it's not really a kick or a jag...it's a routine. Like I eat the same salad for lunch almost every day. I guess the analog to that is an outfit formula. I definitely have formulas for my work-at-home days. For current weather: skinny jeans or pants tucked into boots (not a lemming thing...it's the snow) and a sweater layered over a shirt or T, sometimes with scarf. I vary it a little more if I am going out.

Jaime

(website)

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I often go on clothes kicks and author kicks and the rest of my life is, as Suz said, full of routines that last even longer.

TraceyLiz65

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I do it a lot with food and with music!

Aziraphale

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Looks like I'm in good company! I never really thought of it as a formula, but I guess that's what it is.

What kick are you on right now?

jayne

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my current kick is dark slacks/jeans, top, blazer. Which I return to every so many years. I try and break out, but I come back again and again. I right now I cannot seem to wear anything other than one pair of booties, despire having many winter options.

On the internet, I am on a recipe finding obsession...cannot have enough recipes

rute

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I do this all the time, some times all I want is jeans, others dresses!

milehighstyle (Linda)

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Am I ever not on a kick would be a better question. I'll read book series over and over again (Harry Potter right now), eat the same thing every day until I can't stand to look at it anymore (pistachios for the past few weeks). I used to do crossword puzzles every day, did that for a year or more and now I don't even look at them. I used to put artichoke hearts on everything - pizza, sandwiches, salads - now don't even want them. Fashion wise, I was really into oxford flats and vests last month, this month it's been skinny pants.

deb

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I am really bad about this. I do it in restaurants. I have favorite dishes in different restaurants and when I go that is all I order. Very predictable. Cuttently, I am on a skinny and long top jag, like Una. Cannot get enough of them. Even ordered short sleeved hi/low tee's to transition into spring.

lynne

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I'm so glad to know I'm not alone. My husband kids me about my food kicks especially. I'll eat the same thing for lunch for a month, then be uninterested.

Isabel

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Oh gosh, absolutely !! Just like our emotions are not static, our clothes and preferences are not. Last year, after I discovered how to wear skinnies and tunics...I went NUTS. If Martians landed on Earth and saw me for a month or two, they would think that there was no other silhouette on Earth. Enjoy it. That is all that matters.

PS Last night I was thinking, I have TOO many tunics. LOL

christieanne

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I do it too and have decided that in this unpredictable crazy world, those routines are just me exercising a little control where I can. The term "comfort food" comes to mind. But it's comfort dressing (in most cases not referring to pjs!) and reading and music.
And it's good!

My comfort food of late is pumpkin soup with spicy peanut sauce. It takes the chill off the day. I want to try MaryK's ramen now though......

MsMary

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Christianne, it's awesome. It's the Maruchan brand in the green package. We like to add a small handful of sliced shitake mushrooms and half a sliced green onion per package. Yum.

I just realized I've been on a red-plaid-scarf jag the past few days, too!

goldenpig

(website)

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I am getting kind of lazy--always reaching for my new FFBO of sweater, stretchy skirt and booties! It takes a lot of effort to be creative when you're 8.5 months pregnant and it's chilly outside.

Current food jag (insert bag over head smiley)--Taco Bell crunchy tacos. And Arby's roast beef sandwiches, although there are no Arby's for 30 miles around so I can only get them when we are travelling. I blame it on pregnancy cravings (convenient excuse).

Aziraphale

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GP, with a nearly full-term pregnancy, I'd say you get a free pass to wear and eat just about anything you like! Whether it's a fallback outfit or not, if you can manage to look cute at that stage of pregnancy, you're doing great. (I certainly did not manage it).

Mo

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I do eat the same breakfast every day but I crave variety otherwise, in my food, music, clothing. I actually err on the other side of not wearing something out and like to dole slowly.
I kidded the BF this week about our backlog of Justified episodes in the Tivo queue. He wanted to barrel through all of them in a massive marathon. I wanted to watch one or two at a time, slowly working through them. I told him to think of them like a bag of cookies, and to enjoy them

Anonymous

Hold on, Mo ... you're supposed to slowly enjoy a bag of cookies? What do you mean by "slowly?" Does scarfing them down in 2 hours count? I think it should, because I could probably eat them a lot faster than that.

Jyoti

(website)

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All. the. time.

I'm on a mint and black kick myself. All my purchases lately have been black, unless of course they were mint. xD

I've been wearing lots of leggings and loose tops lately, but I feel like this might be because I've been traveling and its been cold, and leggings+something is a super easy and comfy outfit, and appropriate for many things. xD

MsMary

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OMG, TV jags! Mr. K and I just finished binge-watching two seasons of "Downton Abbey" in two weekends and love it! And my BFF and I stayed up all night and watched somthing like 15 episodes of "Once Upon a Time" a few weeks ago. BIG FUN!!

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