So far, so good. With the sun coming out over the past week I'm getting a little agitated about going shopping for summer stuff! Hey I'm sure I can find something in my wardrobe....that still fits me!
When I started out on this "One year, no new gear", I did allow myself one purchase per month. This month it had to be a pair of comfortable shoes!
I used to be the queen of quirky, impossibly high shoes that I could wear all day...but no more. I blame Covid,,,,,not getting older!
So I bought these to get me through the school day when I am on yard duty.
They are pure bliss on my feet.
Of course I had no sooner exited the shoe shop with my purchase in my hands, heart pounding with the exhilaration of having bought something when I bumped straight into Gillian. She espied the Shoe Shop bag in my hand and asked the dreaded question
"I thought you weren't supposed to be buying anything for a year?"
I could feel the blood draining from my face as if I had been found in possession of class A drugs! I gulped and considered saying that they were a birthday present for my niece but then I realised that I didn't have to lie. it was all above board. I'd never make it as a con artist.
So still on track.
Wow! This couldn't have happened at a better time.
A new business has opened up in our little village, Alterations. This means that I can add new life to clothes that I thought were for landfill. I'd like to day that I have clothes that have to be taken in
BUT I DON'T! Quite the opposite.
Best of luck to Tatiana on your new venture. I'll pop in soon.
No withdrawal symptoms this week. Shopping never entered my head.
Off to the races - the first time in three years!!!
I lost on every race. So nothing new there.
Time is flying. Only 48 weeks until I can go clothes shopping again!
I must admit I'm finding it easier to abstain when I haven't as much free time to miss going to a shopping centre. I've also gone through my wardrobe(s)
not literally, I don't live in Narnia!
and I've rediscovered lots of old favourites that I have forgotten about. I've also discovered some items that "I have to have" , that are now languishing in the aforementioned wardrobe, with the tags still on!!! Not so necessary after all.
Anyway here is my week
Saturday: Met Emer for dinner and then we headed off to Mullingar Arts Centre to see Emmet Cahill in concert. Great night.
These were the clothes that I bought ages ago....and had to take the tags off. :)
This week was Back to School week, after the Easter hols. It brought its challenges. For some reason it was a very "theatrical" week, which meant that I wasn't going home after school but rather meeting up with people before heading to the show. Coupled with the fact that I was on "yard duty" three days this week didn't help. Yard Duty outfits have to be comfortable, flat shoes suitable for walking around and around and around the yard in all possible weathers.
Think "One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest"...and what they wore!
Spoiler Alert: He dies in the end!
