Good for you! What is your trick? I so dread these types of mornings. Maybe I need even more planning.

What a genious you are, Shannon, to start this conversation! It is so interesting to follow, and an excellent question. The way I see it, an analytical or intuitive approach are not necessarily opposites in regards to creativity. I'm one of those who records lots of stuff. But to me, that is only part of the creative exercise. I have been having *phases* all my life: I've made stuff - quilting, knitting, sewing, photography, baking, cooking - I even created a website and forum for teachers in Norway that gathered thousands of people. To me, all of this is the same. I play with various elements, driven by a "what happens if..." idea, and I make plans, plans that sometimes are realized, sometimes not. It is the *creating* that is exciting to me.

I use Evernote and a spreadsheet to record my wardrobe elements and outfits. I keep photos of my outfits as a source of inspiration for dull days. I record single garments so that I can create mock-ups when I have some time to spare, but am away from my actual garments. I like variety a lot, but I can repeat the outfits I really like. Finding new combinations are serendipitous.

My girls asked me the other day to write down some recipes for them, recipes of typical food we eat in our family. But they could hardly name a single dish when they tried. That is because I rarely make the same dinner twice. On the other side, I write a tidy shopping list, and I plan meals a week ahead. So my approach is both analytical, metodical and intuitive. If I don't feel like committing to a plan, then I don't. Maybe I use the planned outfit or meal another day. I have an arsenal of ideas to choose from, but the bottom line for me in my approach to most things in life is about being curious and discover something a little new, every day.

Don't change your spots! They are so pretty on you!!

(Besides, animal print is still "in," you wild thing!)

I can't catalogue (or maybe I could, but I have no need to. My wardrobe is so small (even now, after a year of adding pretty steadily to it) that there would be little need to do that. I can see everything I own in one glance.

I don't do spreadsheets.

I don't do CPW, although I do keep a sort of rough calculation in my mind about "value for money." And when I say "rough" I mean "rough" because my calculus is a whole lot more about the "happiness factor" of an item than its dollar value. If I get a huge happiness factor out of something yet wear it rarely, that's okay in my books. What I hate is stuff I get NO happiness factor from -- whatever its cost.

I DO like to plan in the sense of figuring out my general style direction or aspirations, deciding on some key colours, noting what I really love and trying to recapture that in other items, and aiming for pleasing proportional arrangements (my big challenge, I think). I also like to analyze what my core essentials are or might be. (Still working on that particular equation.)

I also plan my travel capsules -- by necessity. My wardrobe may be small, but even I can't take everything I own with me on a trip. And I need to have workable combinations.

I don't plan what I'm going to wear in advance, however, except for very important occasions, when I might come up with a couple of possible combinations in advance and then pick one (or something completely different) in the moment.

For day to day, it is all about my mood, the weather, and what's on the agenda. I do sometimes end up like Krish, however, and really HATE those days; that's why I've turned to planning a bit for the big events, to avoid those 6 changes on the already-stressful occasions.