I know what you mean Jenni - it is good not to be oblivious about the reality of the clothing life cycle.

However - you do need to get dressed to live your life- and want to enjoy it again. From what I see most of your recent (2 years or so) purchases have been good ones - it is some of the older ones that were less well thought out. Not that you don’t like them -but that you had too many. I don’t think you need to keep editing - even if you only wear something twice a year sometimes that is actually fine. You like variety and they are a sunk cost.

My lesson for the challenge was that I don’t need much more. But I do want to look good and I love clothes and having fun with fashion. So a shopping limit and an almost one in one out policy is helping me.

Thanks Sally great wisdom! I am enjoying wearing certain things still but have been a bit weighed down by trying to get to 30 wears- which I know Angie says she doesn’t track wears partly because for her it takes the fun out of it. What I like best is the ones I get to 30 wears really easily- like the bronze cardigan from August 2018, one year ago, which had 37 wears by the end of 2018 and is on 27 this year so far. Contrast that with the chevron wool Sabatini jacket which I am wearing today- I am yay because it finally hit 30 wears today, but it is a 2012 purchase. Clearly, one just hit a sweet spot more than the other. Trying to figure out which is which in advance is the hard part!

Yes sometimes that happens.

I added some check culottes last year that I really like. But they really only suit May-September. I have worn them four times this year and I think I wore them 6-7 times last year. They are quite a statement and not that versatile. I suspect they will never get to 30 wears to be honest.

But they were locally made by my friend, inexpensive ($60) and I get joy from wearing them. So a few pluses!! It is when something fails, or is an expensive mistake that I feel more disappointed.