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Feeling a bit out of control @_@

nicoleb

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Sometimes i think doing SYC causes more damage than good for me. Like i'm trying to make up for lost time or something. I have made quite a few purchases in the past two weeks. It mainly because i keep finding awesome deals...but all those awesome deals are adding up! Add in a rather impulsive personality and...eep!

I think i need to get a bit more extreme and stop looking on ebay, stop opening up sale emails, stop going on Hautelook etc. If i don't know it's out there i can't want it!

And honestly i have pleeeeeeeenty of summer clothes. I'm beyond excited for Fall trends this year so if i was smart i would save up my $ for that.

Thanks for listening.

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Latest reply was from nicoleb

bj1111

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totally agree. my plan this summer is to wear every summer thing or reasonably summer appropriate thing at least once. even if i have to have two, possibly three, outfits to fit it all in before sept 21, the official start of fall.

christieanne

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Move the emails back to a spam status - I only check my spam a few times a week so great deals are typically gone by then.
You can get back on track and focus on other things, maybe a few DIY or projects for the next month or so?

Good vibes!

cheryl

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Sounds like drastic measures are in your future, lol. I would stop the emails to stop the temptation for a month or two and then it will time to shop for fall

cciele

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We're watching you Nicole, here and on your blog

Transcona Shannon

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Yep, I"m slowing down now too. I've filled my blouse hole and have decided not to worry about finding another dress. I have enough. I need a few casual items like shorts and tees but will thrift those.

I have a couple of large needs/wants for fall and am going to focus on those. I'm actually thinking of printing off a couple of colour photos of what I'm after in the fall and putting them on my bedroom mirror as a reminder!

bj1111

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oops...now the fashion police of a different sort are out in force!!! ummm....this ole thang, nothing to see here folks, move along.

AJ

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@nicole - Time to shop your closet!

@TS - Better put an extra copy of those photos on your dashboard and on your grocery list! : P

Anonymous

I have definitely stopped shopping for summer. I feel confident I have more than enough.

JennyAnne

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I'm with you. I've been out of control the last month. Not sure what's up with that as I'd been doing pretty well, but I've just been finding awesome things that are reasonable priced and I HAVE TO HAVE. We need a support group.

Ana

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I definitely hear you! Spring/Summer is my high shopping season in Austin, so I have been buying a lot of new clothes recently. Way more than I did last Fall/Winter. Plus, I had to replace quite a few things, or have them altered, so that's more $$$. I passed up a SUPER cute open-lacework jacket today. It was my size and on sale! But I decided I'm going to focus on shoes for the next little while since I have plenty of clothes now. That's one thing I always put off buying, and now my old pairs are starting to fall apart. Since I'm super picky and don't totally love shoe shopping, I'll probably naturally start spending less.

Maybe we can keep each other on the straight and narrow.

catgirl

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I have a lot to say on this topic but I'm on my phone! Will be back...

annagybe

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I'm about to tear through my closet to see what else I can consign. Last haul I was able to trade it for an awesome box clutch.

Tanya

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I also have a lot to say here and am completely with you Nicole. After my >1.5 year SYC I got a lot of new summer clothes in the last couple of months. I really do not need more summer stuff, so I have pretty much decided to go on SYC till NAS, and afterwards focus on shoes and fall clothes. No more new summer clothes for me either other than one new knit blazer that I already have money set aside for.

nicoleb

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Glad i'm not alone here and some of these posts are really making me giggle. Don't start watching my blog too closely yet because i have 3 packages coming in the mail + 1 that came yesterday lol.

But seriously though, i do need to focus on something else. And there are plenty of other things to focus on i just need to get my mind there.

Going a little deeper i recently learned that i *may* have ADD (and have had it since childhood and was not aware.) and that has really kind of opened my eyes about a lot of things about my personality AND my shopping habits. Flash sale sites have great deals but are probably nooooooooot the best for me.

Transcona Shannon

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Good point AJ - I better make multiple copies!!!

catgirl

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I am totally OOC. I am not even shopping for the current season, since really the summer is feeling like a mild winter right now. I'm just buying. There is somewhat of a theme, though - the buttondowns have been eye-opening for me, and I'm firm on no MORE skinnies (I have so many fab ones) and no bothering about summer shoes which I hate and rarely wear anyway. Is that a theme?

I'm also staying off the flash sites and sales entirely, unless I have something specific in mind. And I'm using my consignment money to fulfill my impulse shopping unless it's a lot; then I cash out, like in Vegas.

OTOH, I am discriminating far more than I used to - a year ago I would have gotten the Bailey 44 dress I posted thinking I needed it just because I loved it. Now I go through a whole narrowing down questionnaire in my mind which eliminates 90% of my impulse purcnases.

I feel your pain!

nicoleb

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You are much more disciplined than i am Una! I'm impressed by it!

Which Bailey 44 dress where you looking at? I must have missed that post. I just scored a brand new one with tags still attached for $25 off Ebay! I have to get the shoulders taken up but others a perfect fit. Super pumped.

catgirl

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It's this one (don't make me go there!):

http://www.anthropologie.com/a.....;color=030

nicoleb

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haha ok. We don't have to talk about it anymore. XD