Spring is in the air and you may, like me, be thinking about re-organising your wardrobe. Retailers are on to this too. There are several sales and big promotional discounts around right now as they need to make room for their summer stock.
The sales… I find them hard to resist. I literally have to avoid looking because the temptation of scoring a bargain is too much.
This post as a note-to-self – a reminder not to splurge!
I am going to think carefully about what additions my wardrobe will benefit from and only buy what I actually need. (Yeah, right! I hear Mr Club Forty scoffing…)
I am learning to avoid emotional purchasing – that is, snapping up something because I simply LOVE IT. The clothes I buy need to suit my lifestyle. They need to be functional. There is no point in buying fantasy-life clothes that I just won’t wear.
I work part-time and the work I do is predominantly from home. When I am not working, my week is spent on the school/after-school-club runs, dog walking, house chores, errands, in yoga class or on a run, with a scattering of lunch dates and evenings out per month (if I’m lucky!)
So even though I lust after cool and sophisticated, fashion-forward clothes that would suit a girl-about-London-town running from glamorous meetings to glitzy evening engagements this is, obviously, not my reality.
Despite fashion-y quotes such as “Dress like you are going to meet your worst enemy” (Kimora Lee) and ” Life is a party, dress for it” (Audrey Hepburn), I would simply not have had the occasion to wear this dress. It would be wasted on the school run and look ridiculous with my wellies on a muddy dog walk. And I’m sure I would feel overdressed if I wore it on a night out to our local pub (which is as out-out as my evenings get these days).
You may be thinking that all this careful purchasing takes the fun out of clothes shopping. But it doesn’t, not to me at least. I have previously written about my philosophy when it comes to buying clothes (here). I enjoy making my wardrobe ‘work’ (it’s the control freak in me!!!) Plus, I am quite frugal so I dislike wasting money on clothes I never wear.
Don’t get me wrong, I do love a high-fashion number, but I won’t spend a huge amount on it.
So whilst I am definitely keeping an eye on the current sales, I may or may not buy anything this time around.
What do you do when you see amazing clothes reduced in the sales? Do you splurge? Or do you take a more sensible approach?
As always, I’d love to hear from you.
Thanks for reading… look out for my upcoming post where I’ll be picking out all you need for a Spring capsule wardrobe!
<a href=”http://honestmum.com/category/brilliant-blog-posts/”><img style=”margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; display: block;” src=”http://i.imgur.com/fJzNWoE.jpg” alt=”Brilliant blog posts on HonestMum.com” width=”301″ height=”189″ /></a>